Carlos Hernández de Miguel, the journalist who exposed the enormous red of Franco’s fields, has died at the age of 56.

Journalist Carlos Hernandez de Miguelauthor of the most comprehensive investigation and exposé on Franco’s concentration camps, died in Huesca aged 56, confirmed this Tuesday elDiario.esmedium in who worked as a collaborator.

De Miguel, Licensed in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and an investigator focused on the abuses of the Franco dictatorship and in light of the stories of the miles Spanish Republicans deported to Nazi campsfell ill due to illness.

Hernández appears on Antena 3 Televisión as a parliamentary reporter on the Congress of Representatives and worked as a war correspondent in the conflicts in Kosovo, Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was also a political and business communications consultant and seminar editor. Club.

The journalist was a talented, generous and compromising writer who in recent years devoted himself to investigating the civil war and the fate of the defeated. Published in 2015 The last Spaniard from Mauthausena book in which the biographies and stories of 9,000 men and women who survived or died in Nazi camps were revealed with unpublished documentation pacts of Frank and Hitler.

Presented in 2019 Franco’s concentration camps (Ediciones B), a monumental investigation that has been carried out for more than three years and in which I have documented extensive concentration system distributed throughout the peninsular geography and remained operational until the dictator’s death in 1975.

“The camps were not a reaction to the violence that is recorded in the republican announcement, they are a predetermined strategy before the coup,” De Miguel explained in an interview with this periodical. “My conclusion could not be clearer: There was only one concentration camp and it was called Spain“.

In his work, the journalist identified cases in 300 camps where 700,000 to a million people were detained. El anterior analysis, del historian Javier Rodrigoattributed the existence of 188 enclosures.

Hernández de Miguel also co-wrote the comic Deported4443graphic history of republicans who suffered firsthand from the repressive machinery of the Third Reich. Asymism, here is a foray into fiction Cream. It’s not a novel, it’s your futuredystopia above the progress of the extreme populist right published less than a year.