US EditionSpain to investigate deaths of thousands of Spaniards in Nazi camps
- Spanish prosecutors have launched an inquiry into possible cooperation between General Francisco Franco’s regime and Nazi Germany during World War II, focusing on the deportation of exiled Spaniards from France to death camps.
- The probe follows thousands of Spaniards fleeing to France after Franco's 1936-1939 civil war victory over a republican government backed by fascists.
- These republican exiles, subjected to forced labour and murder, were detained under Nazi occupation and sent to camps including Mauthausen in Austria.
- The inquiry focuses on 4,435 recorded deaths, led by the human rights section under a 2022 democratic memory law aiming to address Franco-era violence.
- The investigation could confirm a joint strategy between Franco's regime and Nazis, while right-wing opposition plans to repeal the law if it regains power.
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The LocalSpain to investigate deaths of thousands of Spaniards in Nazi camps
Spanish prosecutors on Monday said they were investigating whether General Francisco Franco's dictatorship collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II to send thousands of exiled Spaniards in France to death camps.
Delgado opens an investigation into a "joint strategy" of Franco and the Nazi regime for the extermination of Spaniards 80 years later
The prosecutor of the Chamber of Democratic Memory, Dolores Delgado, has opened an investigation to clarify a possible "joint strategy" of the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco and the Nazi regime for the extermination of Spaniards in forced labour and torture camps, such as Mathausen (Austria) and Gusen (Germany).
Dolores Delgado opens an investigation into the "joint strategy" of Franco and the Nazis to send Spanish exiles to concentration camps
The Public Prosecutor of Human Rights and Democratic Memory, Dolores Delgado, has opened an investigation into the sending of Spaniards to...
Prosecutor initiates investigation into Spaniards interned in Nazi concentration camps
Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, the Human Rights and Democratic Memory Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the State, according to EL PAÍS, will initiate investigations into crimes of murder, murder, illegal detention and enforced disappearances in a context of crimes against humanity perpetrated against the Spanish population that, after fleeing from Franco, ended up…
Inside Mauthausen, the concentration camp where thousands of Spaniards were victims of Nazi terror
It marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen, a camp where the Nazi regime deployed its inhumane practices and to which more than 7,500 Spanish prisoners were deported La Gestapo arrested Angel Colomina Edo in February 1944, along with other members of the French Resistance. Accused of “Communist terrorist”, he endured several interrogations and ended, in April of that year, in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen, in Austr…
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