The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced on Wednesday that he will promote an investigation into forced labor in Spain with the aim of preparing a census of victims and an inventory of buildings built with forced labor during the dictatorship: “Our souls are broken when we hear the testimonies of daughters and granddaughters of those who were imprisoned for defending democracy and who were forced to work under conditions of inhuman misery and isolation.”
These are statements made by Torres in the course of a visit to the ruins of the Chozas de la Sierra Criminal Detachment, in which during the dictatorship more than 2,000 Republican prisoners of the 6,000 who worked in the construction of the train line between Chamartín and Lozoya, of the Madrid-Burgos railway, were confined.