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The Spanish Civil War was responsible for the exile of some one million Spanish Republicans, many of whom never returned to their homeland during Franco's dictatorship. Though a minority found refuge in America, France was the main asylum for these exiles. Instead of welcoming them like refugees, it treated them like prisoners. The Second World War and the German Occupation worsened their situation. Persecuted, used for forced labor, delivered into Franco's hands or forced into another exile, many returned to the struggle: they were among the first to join the Resistance. Those who fell into the hands of the Nazis were shot or sent to concentration camps. Among the 9000 deported to Mauthausen, only 2000 survived. Juan Negrin's Republican government found asylum in England where the intellectuals created an important anti-Franco front. "The children of the war" reached Belgium, England and Russia... and were to be found as far afield as Mexico, where president Lazaro Cardenas welcomed them with open arms. It was only after the death of Franco that the exiles began to go home to Spain.

Spain - 2002 - 1 h 58 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour and B&W

Director Pedro Carvajal y Urquijo from an original idea by Alfonso Guerra Script Pedro Carvajal y Urquijo, Julio Martín Casas Camera Elena Guerrero Sound Víctor Jiménez Luján Editing Amparo Martínez Dorado Music Jorge Maletá

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