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The fate of Spanish antifascists - The concentration camp of Argelès-sur-Mer

In Europe, fascist governments were emerging. In 1936, for the first time, people fought against fascism, in Spain. Hitler had been elected, Mussolini had established his regime without a big oposition, but in Spain they would not accept Franco's fascist coup d'état. This is the story about those Spaniards and brigadistas who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War and were forgotten after it. They were interned in concentration camps, both French and Nazi, were sent to French colonies for forced labor, and continued to fight against fascism and nazism in the Second World War. THE CAMP, ARGELÈS: At the end of 1938, in France, a decree was published in which the beach of Argelès was chosen to open a concentration camp for the internment of "undesirable" foreigners, which meant antifascist exiles from Spain. From July to September, the camp was closed, but with the beginning of World War II, the camp was reconverted into a reception camp for the so-called "undesirables" (Jews, Gypsies, Spaniards, Poles, ...). From July 1940 to September 1941, the camp was managed by the Vichy regime, and there were devastating floods for the inmates and the camp facilities. At the end of 1941, the camp was finally permanently closed. An estimated 220,000 people were interned in this camp. We cannot know the number of deaths, as only 48 were documented. But with the hunger, illnesses, and hard conditions the inmates suffered, and with the extremely elevated child mortality, the numbers are estimated to rise to more than 1500 in all French concentration camps.