Estos muros

In the mountains of Madrid, Spain, a railway track on an abandoned bridge and a poem erased from the wall of a ruined building reveal a deliberately silenced story: the system established by Franco's dictatorship after the civil war (1936-39) that allowed hundreds of companies to use thousands of convicted Republicans as slave labor.

• spanish civil war (1936-39)
• franco regime (francoism)
• political repression
• spanish history
• modern slavery
• post spanish civil war
• forced labor