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Rescue and demolition tasks at the Hospital de la Caritat, just after the bombing of 8 June 1938. (AMF)
“[…] we lack words to condemn as deserved the bombing of the Hospital, where selfless nurses and wounded have succumbed under the airstrikes of Hitler and Mussolini.”
Letter from the International Brigades, delegation in Figueres, to the City Mayor, 9 June 1938 (ACAE)
Despite the existence of the Non-Intervention Committee, Franco’s supporters and Republicans received foreign aid. The main military partner of the Republicans was the USSR, which sold them modern equipment, which did not arrive in such quantity or with such regularity as Franco’s supporters received from their allies.
Nazis and fascists provided so many modern aircraft that they were able to cover the front and, at the same time, hammer the theoretical Republican rearguard. Figueres was one of its victims. The main perpetrators of the 1938 attacks were the Italians, while the Condor Legion carried out the bombings in 1939.
The Hospital of Charity, located in this area, was affected by one of these bombings, specifically on June 8, 1938, when Italian planes from Mallorca dropped bombs on Figueres. They killed thirty-eight people, injured fifty and partially collapsed the old hospital.
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