Spanish Civil War Interview Series 12: Prisoners in Francoist Spain with Jessica Thorne
History of the Second World War
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The Rise and Fall of the Franco Regime
The Franco regime constructed a massive new prison in 1944-1945, the outskirts of Madrid called Caravanciao. It had this really curious mixture of high Catholic imagery and a Greco-Roman neo-classisist style. Many of the common prisoners were actually seen as like redeemable. They were redeemable, the kind of criminals.
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