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The book documents that between 700,000 and one million prisoners passed through a network of 296 concentration camps across Spain. These facilities were not merely temporary wartime measures but stayed operational for years, with some forms of forced labor units continuing until the 1960s and 70s. The primary goal of these camps was to classify, "re-educate," and eliminate the political and moral culture of Republican Spain. Life and Death Behind the Wire

: The camps served as a massive "filtering" system where individuals were judged on their "level of danger" to the new state, leading many to execution or long-term imprisonment. Significance and Legacy Los_campos_de_concentracion_de_Franco_Carlos_He...

The book is regarded as an essential tool for the recovery of Historical Memory in Spain. It challenges the "official history" that often minimized or omitted the existence of these camps. By identifying the exact locations of nearly 300 sites, Hernández de Miguel has created a "geography of terror" that forces a confrontation with the brutal reality of the Francoist dictatorship. The book documents that between 700,000 and one