Word: camps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Americans boycott German goods only because she tries to get rid of the Jews? Even if a few were killed or got put in a concentration camp last November, it is like one to a thousand compared to the killing of nuns and priests in Soviet Spain, like one to a million compared to Russia...
...exiles want to return to Spain. Stories of dire reprisals awaiting them in Spain have reached the refugee camps by grapevine. Typical of how news travels among the refugees was the method adopted by a recent fugitive from Catalonia. Forbidden by French authorities to make a speech in the camp, he drew a map of Spain in the sand. Inside the outline he sketched a firing squad pointing their rifles at a group of civilians. No refugee misunderstood the man's meaning...
...refugees, French authorities adopted methods calculated to help "persuade" them that they would be better off almost anywhere else. Typical rations were one loaf of bread daily for six men, a sack of rice for 400 men. Sanitation has been nonexistent. Open latrines have been dug in the camp sand and all modesty about nature's functions has long ago disappeared...
...largest camps are situated on a treeless sandy beach just north of the Spanish border near Argeles-sur-Mer and St. Cyprien. They are enclosed by barbed wire, guarded every 20 feet by a Senegalese soldier. Inside the wire the camps are like some fantastically huge hobo jungle. Only a few refugees have roofs over their heads; the great majority dig holes in the sand and cover themselves with dirty sheets, blankets or coats they managed to carry out with them. Many sleep in the open, rain or shine. Icy sea winds blow the sand continually. Most of the refugees...
...promptly ordered police to round up the green-shirted Hungarist Party, the country's largest Nazified organization (estimated membership: 1,000,000). The party was outlawed, party headquarters and homes of members were ransacked, 500 Green Shirts were seized and "leading personalities" were bundled off to a concentration camp...