I visit a concentration camp in SPAIN 

A very interesting video. People have also forgotten about " las checas" here in Spain (places where people, many completely innocent, were detained, tortured and murdered during the Spanish Civil War) "Las checas" were named after the Russian secret police force.

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Barry, a great video and away from the normal. It reminded me of something I had long forgotten that we had similar issues back in Scotland. In the early 1960s the local ice cream parlour owner in Camelon would not serve me or allow me in the shop as my Grandfather who being too old for World War 2 was a guard at the local Interment Camp when all Italian males under 70 were rounded up swiftly after10 June 1940 when Mussolini declared war.

There was a rumour that the local authority was going to preserve the small building, which was the gate house to the camp, as a memorial to those that died there. There is a small plaque and two pieces railway line, placed vertically, just close to the railway station, which is the official memorial, but you need to know where to find it. There were lots more, small labour camps in the Realengo area (between Crevillente and Catral), but I cannot establish where. Even today it is not the done thing to mention Franco to the older generation.

Great video mate such a shame they are hiding from it and not speaking about it 😢😮

Barry, this was excellent, informative and hit the right tone. Definitely a successful video. I hope folks subscribe and do thumbs up. Thank you.😊

A really poignant episode Baz, we also need to reflect on the fact that the Catholic Church, encouraged by the then Pope supported and endorsed the regime of Franco which led to the murder of 13 Bishops, 4,712 priests and seminarians, 2,364 monks and friars and 283 nuns as well as between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people, the numbers are unclear because ‘The disappeared’ as they’ve become known did just that, simply disappeared and ended in in thousands of massed grave in 1,00’s of places across Spain. If people are interested, there’s a really good, easy to read book that covers the full story of this and other issues in Spanish history called the Ghosts of Spain and is written by a Brit in a really good way that’s not at all heavy. No pasaràn muchachos

The brits in the early 70 's went to Australia for £9.99. And were labled the whining poms by the aussies because they were moaning at the airport when the aeroplane landed and they sounded like the engine. Take a risk and go, loads of Tims 😊

Its a story that not talked about

If you want, read where and in what concentration camps the French put the Spaniards from the Republican side who were fleeing to France and how they treated them at the end of the Spanish war, in 1939...en el pueblo de Le Perthus, Collioure y Argelès-sur-Mer (Francia).and how many of them they handed over to. to the Nazis and they sent them to the Mathausen concentration camp... when France surrendered... because of those and other things from the past, the French don't like the Spanish very much.

Franco resisted for 40 years because in 1953 the USA wanted a friendly dictatorship in Spain that was anti-Soviet. And they kept Franco until his death. On the other hand, no Spaniard under 65 years of age has memories of the dictatorship. It is curious that the British tend to to talk a lot about Franco, when it is already a distant past in Spain.

At first for two and a half years, it was a forced labor camp, for nationalist prisoners... by the Republicans... then in '39 it was a Francos concentration camp... where, yes, they shot many soldiers or republican people... yes... some innocent people and others who had done atrocities to people on the national side... it was a disaster yes... but I don't even want to think what would have happened, if the communists and anarchists had won the war. with that of people who were killed since 1934 just for being priests or nuns, or well-to-do people... I assure you that in the last 15 years of Franco there was more freedom than in the last ones, governed by the socialist party of Sanchez.....saludos

The English invented and instituted the concentration camp during the Boer war.

Espana,Una,Grande,E ,libre Viva Franco ❤️