Thousands of Spaniards were victims of the National Socialist concentration camp system, tens of thousands of Spanish Republicans had to perform forced labor for the National Socialists. Our goal was to bring the memory of these victims of National Socialism to the nearly 300,000 Spanish-speaking people with a migration background living in Germany:
- placing the persecution, exploitation and murder of Spanish Republicans through
forced labor or in concentration camps in historical context,
- reconstructing from the local level the main historical lines of the deportation and the functioning of the National Socialist machinery of extermination and exploitation,
- naming and putting a face to the victims of extermination and, finally,
- reflecting with participants on the different cultures and politics of memory
based on the German and Spanish experience, analyzing the changes that have occurred in national memory policies, as well as the importance of memorial sites for collective memory.
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