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Six thousand Spanish men joined the Foreign Legion. About 30,000 Spanish refugees in France with the resources to pay for their passage emigrated to third countries, especially Mexico. [19] The presence of the refugees in France became more acceptable to the French public with the beginning of World War II in September 1939. The remaining ...
Refugees at the Argelers concentration camp, 1939 Commemorative stele for survivors of the retirada at Camp de Rivesaltes. The most infamous internment camps before World War II were used to intern the Spanish Republican refugees and military personnel during the Spanish Civil War. [3]
The Argelers concentration camp was an internment camp established in early February 1939 [1] on the territory of the French commune of Argelès-sur-Mer for Spanish Republican refugees. Called La Retirada (the withdrawal) many of the refugees were members of the Spanish Republican Army (Ejército Popular Republicano) in the Northeast of Spain ...
The government of Édouard Daladier decided to open the France–Spain border on 27 January. Refugees fled across the Pyrenees via La Jonquera, Portbou, Le Perthus, Cerbère, and Bourg-Madame. According to an official report dated March 1939, the number of Spanish refugees in France was estimated at 440,000.
As the war in Spain progressed and areas became safer, the children started to be repatriated; the first few after barely a month. The Spanish Civil War ended on 1 April 1939, to be followed rapidly by the beginning of the Second World War in September. By this time only some 400 children remained in Britain, and by 1948 only 280 remained. [4]
Following the Retirada (the exodus of about half a million refugees from Spain to France in early 1939 at the end of the Spanish Civil War), [3] [4] the French government decided to use Camp Joffre to intern more than 15,000 Catalan refugees. This decision was never fully put into action, although a small influx of Catalan refugees was held ...
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: ... with some 500,000 fleeing to France. [293] Refugees were confined in internment camps of the French Third Republic, ...
After the victory of the Nationalist faction of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War, many thousands of refugees, many of whom were exiled Spanish Republicans had fled from Spain to Metropolitan France or French North Africa.