148705 20250122145317.0 doi 10.1080/14701847.2021.1898153 sideral 124163 ART-2021-124163 eng Gaspar Celaya, D. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-8891-9879 Spanish exiles, transnational soldiers from the French internment camps to the Free French Forces 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Thousands of Spaniards contributed to the defence and the liberation of France as military contractors, legionnaires and soldiers between 1939 and 1945. This paper focuses on three elements of their contributions. First, it investigates the importance of French internment camps for Spanish refugees that became key recruitment grounds for soldiers and labourers. Secondly, it will analyse the importance of the military background Spanish volunteers acquired in both Spanish and French ranks. Thirdly, it will analyse the features of Free French Spanish volunteers and their fighting itineraries as transnational soldiers. Despite its importance, politicians in both France and Spain only recognised Spanish contributions to the French resistance after the Second World War. This is a fourth aspect of the entangled Franco-Spanish history of the Second World War that this article analyses. By incorporating the accounts of French Gaullists, Communists and Spanish Francoists, it demonstrates how the context of the Cold War, which reinforced these interpretations, left little room for the study and commemorative inclusion of these “outsiders”. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ 0.162 2021 History 2021 Q2 Cultural Studies 2021 Q2 0.3 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 3012 450 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Historia Área Historia Contemporánea 27, 1 (2021), 27-40 Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 1470-1847 230802 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148705/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1168830 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148705/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:148705 articulos driver 2025-01-22-14:52:03 ARTICLE