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Uncertain future for Albatera, the largest Franco concentration camp in Spain

The "Albatera concentration camp", the largest Francoist detention centre in Spain, housed over 15,000 prisoners in April 1939. Archaeological surveys that are being carried...

Generalitat allocates 100,000 euros to purchase Albatera concentration camp

The Generalitat has taken one more step in the establishment of an Interpretation Centre at the Albatera concentration camp with the promise of 100,000...

Albatera: from Francoist concentration camp to Visitor Centre

The Consell has said that it intends to turn the camp where the Franco regime locked up 20,000 Republicans in subhuman conditions into...

Albatera, the most important concentration camp of Franco

As we approach our annual period of Remembrance spare a thought for the horrors suffered by more than 15,000 people on our doorstep in...

Albatera, the most important concentration camp of the Franco regime

There were more than 190 concentration camps, holding 170,000 prisoners in 1938 and between 367,000 and about half a million prisoners when the war...

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