Barcelona falls and the Retirada begins
1939 · Event
Franco's armies enter Barcelona almost unopposed, and half a million soldiers and civilians walk north through the winter mountains into French internment camps on the beaches — the Retirada, Europe's largest refugee exodus to that date. Madrid and the end are nine weeks away.
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