: The regime used starvation, disease, and torture as deliberate methods of breaking the prisoners' spirits.

The book documents that between 700,000 and one million prisoners passed through a network of 296 concentration camps across Spain. These facilities were not merely temporary wartime measures but stayed operational for years, with some forms of forced labor units continuing until the 1960s and 70s. The primary goal of these camps was to classify, "re-educate," and eliminate the political and moral culture of Republican Spain. Life and Death Behind the Wire

Los campos de concentración de Franco , written by journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel, is a seminal work that uncovers the extensive and often ignored history of the concentration camp system established during and after the Spanish Civil War. Hernández de Miguel provides a detailed investigation into how the Franco regime used these camps as a primary tool for political repression, social control, and what he describes as an "ideological holocaust". The Scale of the System