He was first taken to the Albatera camp near Alicante, where, he said, many were put before a firing squad or died of starvation. “I don’t know why, but they always made me watch when they shot people who had tried to escape from the camp,” Mr. Almudéver told El Pais. “Never, in all my life, will I forget the screams of the people who were shot.”

Source: Washington Post May 31, 2021 19:30 UTC