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The Camp de concentration d'Argelès-sur-Mer was a concentration camp established in early February 1939〔Szajkowski, Zosa (1966) "Argelès-sur-Mer" ''Analytical Franco-Jewish Gazetteer, 1939-1945'' privately published, New York, p. 245, 〕 on the territory of the French commune of Argelès-sur-Mer for Spanish Republican refugees. Part of the refugees were retreating members of the Spanish Republican Army ''(Ejército Popular Republicano)'' in the Northeast of Spain in the last months of the Spanish Civil War. ==Description== The camp was located near the Mediterranean coast at the feet of the northern side of the Albera Massif in the Roussillon, 8 km north of the French-Spanish border.〔GoogleEarth〕 The camp at Argelès received more than 100,000 Spanish men and women, both of civilian and military background.〔(Corazón Helado de 1939 - Los exilios republicanos )〕 The latter were the remainder of the Eastern Region Army Group ''(GERO)'' that crossed the border following the Fall of Barcelona and the ''Retirada'', the desperate withdrawal of long civilian and military columns towards the French border at the end of the Francoist Catalonia Offensive.〔Hugh Thomas (1976); ''Historia de la Guerra Civil Española''. Círculo de Lectores, Barcelona. P. 946ISBN 84-226-0874-X.〕 All refugees were disarmed and arrested upon entering France.〔Ramón Salas Larrazábal (2006); ''Historia del Ejército Popular de la República.'' La Esfera de los Libros S.L. ISBN 84-9734-465-0〕 Republican military leaders such as ''Modesto'', commander of the 4th Division and Líster, commander of the 11th Division of the elite V Army Corps, had first seen the retreat to France of the remainder of the Ebro Army as part of a tactical evacuation, with the aim to regroup these units with the remaining units of the last area under Republican control in order to continue the resistance.〔Salas Larrazábal (2001); p. 2237〕 The French government, however, would not allow the Republican units that crossed the border to be transferred to the remaining Spanish Republican territory, for all the veteran survivors of the 11th Division, together with all Republican military, were disarmed and swiftly interned in French concentration camps right after crossing its border.〔Hugh Thomas (1976); p. 943〕 The conditions were sub-par in this concentration camp, and the prisoners faced many diseases. The guards would bring around petroleum baths to combat the plagues of fleas and lice. Efforts to encourage the refugees to return to Spain were common. The concentration camps were very large and unkempt. Some people died of hypothermia, disease, or despair. It was easy to see dead bodies piled in areas throughout the camp that were left in the open. The French government went on to found internment camps all along the feet of the northern Pyrenees to relieve the grim conditions at Argelès. Many refugees ended up confined in those camps, e.g. Gurs internment camp. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camp de concentration d'Argelès-sur-Mer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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