Forced labor (SPA)

It is the systematic exploitation of labor of hundreds of thousands of republican political prisoners by the dictatorship, which, in fact, used them as actual slaves practically until the very end of the Franco regime, namely until 1970. Some  private Spanish  companies were sserved by some political prisoners who were forced to work to reduce prison sentences their strong.

The RMHSA (Reclaiming the Memory of the Social History of Andalusia) group met on the 21st with the Seville City Council to ask for their support and propose them signaling the Collector and the Corchuela as places of memory. Two Franco 's concentration camps where more than 2,000 people met penal servitude Between 1938 and 1943. Blas Infante's home and the place of his execution Were the first two memory locations Declared by the Junta de Andalucía.

 The prisoners were used as forced labors in manpower, such reconstructions as Belchite case, work in salt mines, mercury mining, construction of roads and dams, and canal digging work. In fact, thousands of prisoners were used in the construction of the Prison of Carabanchel, Valley of the Fallen and the Victory Arch. Subsequently, this work was outsourced to private companies and landowners, who used the prisoners to Improve their own properties.

In 1946, ten years after the Civil War began, there were 137 people that were still operating in three work camps and concentration camps, where 30,000 political prisoners were welcomed. The last concentration camp that was closed (in January 1947) was the one located in Miranda de Ebro.