On this day, 11 July 1945, anti-fascist Spanish civil war fighter Agustín Soler, who had been jailed in an internment camp alongside Nazis in Britain, killed himself in protest. Scores of Spanish anti-fascist exiles, many of whom later fought in the French resistance, were detained by Allied forces after the defeat of the Axis and thrown into British prison camps alongside their former fascist enemies by the Conservative government. Upon its election, the Labour government continued the detention of Spanish anti-fascists, and defended it in parliament, claiming that they were “serving members of an enemy paramilitary organisation”. More info here: https://libcom.org/history/spanish-anti-fascist-prisoners-war-lancashire-1944-46
Pictured: some of the prisoners https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1164666523718496/?type=3
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