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Carlos Hernández de Miguel, an expert in business and political communication comes this Monday, February 10, at 8:00 p.m., at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center library, to present his book Franco's concentration camps, where he intends to shed light on one of the less studied and known chapters of Franco's repression.
The event is organized by the Association of Historical Memory of Cartagena, within the program Read, Think and Imagine of the Department of Culture, and will be presented by the historian Víctor Peñalver.
The concentration camps were the first leg of a repressive system, an ideological holocaust, which turned all of Spain into a huge prison full of graves.
In them, political prisoners and prisoners of war were killed, died of hunger and disease, suffered all kinds of torture and humiliation.
The data is necessary and the documentary evidence is fundamental, but nothing makes real sense if we are unable to understand that behind each figure, each list, each Franco concentration camp there were thousands and thousands of men, women, families ...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carlos Hernández de Miguel is a journalist and expert in business and political communication.
Bachelor of Information Science from the Complutense University of Madrid, he began his professional career in Antena 3 Televisión as a parliamentary chronicler in the Congress of Deputies.
He subsequently served as a war correspondent in various international conflicts, such as Kosovo, Palestine, Afghanistan or Iraq.
In recent years he was editor-in-chief of the La Clave seminar and advisor of political and business communication.
In 2015 he published his first book, The Last Spaniards of Mauthausen (Editions B).
He currently collaborates with publications and digital newspapers such as the magazine Travel and Eldiario.es.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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