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Lengthy queues to see Salamanca Archive files.
More than a thousand people waited for more than an hour outside Barcelona's Palau Moja 5 February morning to see the Salamanca Archive files stolen by Franco's fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War. Many of the visitors were elderly veterans, who lived through the Civil War and its bloody aftermath, looking for personal documents taken by force 67 years ago. The earliest birds turned up at around 9.45am, more than an hour before the doors opened, to see the documents, among the most significant of which is the 1932 Catalan regional statute. In total, there are 119 exhibits, most of which are originals. One section of the exhibition details the history of the efforts of the regional government to recover the files, while another recreates the chaotic scenes immediately after the files had been seized. The itinerant exhibition will remain in the regional capital until the 12th March.
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