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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.
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Fernando Colmenarejo, Álvaro Falquina, María García Alonso, Carlos Hernández de Miguel, Fernando Mendiola, Anna Miñarro, Juanjo Olaizola, Alicia Quintero
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