Castuera I (Concentration Camp), Badajoz (2016). Badajoz. This pedestal once carried a cross that presided over the main square of the camp. Between 8.000 and 9.000 prisoners (some studies claim as many as 20.000) were held here 1939-40.Castuera III (Concentration Camp), Badajoz (2016). From April 1939 to March 1940 hundreds of prisoners were eliminated in the camp or ‘taken for a walk’ and shot by Falangist groups of the area.
Castuera II (Concentration Camp), Badajoz (2016). The Gamonita mine shown here and other mines around the concentration camp are believed to contain hundreds of people, disappeared from April 1939 to March 1940.
It is believed that the Gamonita mine and other mines around the Castuera concentration camp contain hundreds of disappeared. According to testimonies of prisoners, the "cuerda india" was practised, which consisted in throwing prisoners bound by the waist into the abyss and finishing them off with hand grenades, thus forging the image of the camp as an extermination centre.
