Bustarviejo (Madrid, Spain)
A labor camp established in 1944 for the construction of the Madrid-Burgos railway. After the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) hundreds of concentration camps were built all over the country to discipline and punish the minds and bodies of democrats, communists, anarchists, socialists, trade unionists, freemasons and of anybody who fought, as a volunteer or as a conscript, against General Franco's army. 500,000 people suffered imprisonment after the war and thousands of them died of starvation, disease, torture or overwork. A few of these camps survive as forgotten ruins today.
The camp of Bustarviejo is the object of a research project on the archaeology of the contemporary past carried out by Álvaro Falquina Aparicio, Pedro Fermín Maguire, Alfredo González-Ruibal, Carlos Marín Suárez, Alicia Quintero Maqua and Jorge Rolland Calvo.
http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/gonzalezruibal/1206
 by Alfredo Gonzalez Ruibal
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