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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]
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 ...
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 Spanish soldiers gave their vehicles original names, for the most part honoring events from the Spanish Civil War. The command unit's jeep was christened "Mort aux cons" [13] (French for "death to dopes"), and its half-track, "Les Cosaques" (French for "the Cossacks").
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 ...
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]
Spanish Civil War Republican ship classes [3] References This page was last edited on 31 August 2022, at 01:35 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The Spanish Civil War, fought between 1936 and 1939, provided an opportunity for many European countries to evaluate new technologies and tactics, including armored warfare. [1] At the beginning of the war, the Nationalist and Popular Fronts each possessed only five World War I-era-design Renault FT light tanks, [ 2 ] although these were soon ...