![]() After a long wait, they formed part of several battalions of soldier-laborers destined to clean up Madrid, the Alcázar of Toledo - which became a symbol of Nationalist pride during the civil war - and Sigüenza. Ever since he was 19, he had carried the pain of sleeping on the floor, on those stairs, not knowing what was going to happen to him and the rest of his classmates. Five years later, he returned to that site, to the same facilities that had since returned to their original function as a school, to narrate his story for television. Agustín López, one of the thousands of Republican prisoners held there, published his memoirs in 2015. A few meters from Atocha railway station, in the center of Madrid, there is a mass grave under the Miguel de Unamuno high school, which was used as a concentration camp at the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
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