// The Spanish Civil war etc. lots of Brits went to fight & there's nothing the government can or could do//
hem hem (*)
There was in England a discussion about interning them (returnees). They were looked on as dangerous.
NOW - if you were unlucky and you did NOT heed La pasionara's call - "You have fought like heroes now go home and do something else" and board ship to dear old Blighty
then you might have been unlucky and gone north and (1936) been interned in S France . For four years
THEN
France lost in 1940 and they er stayed there THEN
The Vichy govt fell and the internees were found my the Nazi occupiers and - - - taken to Mauthausen
THEN they stayed there until 1945 until they were liberated by that Americans
and THAT boys and girls is why
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen_concentration_camp
if you scroll all the way down ( long long way - wheee!)
"liberation and post war heritage"
you will see a banner beginning "los espagnoles anti-fascistas..."
done in the final years of the war by the remains of the International Brigade and sundry spanish revolutionaries, interned nine y before - unlucky men!
now who was it who said - you can join up and nothing happens later? - - I think it " can do" something and not very pleasant, khandro
(*) Khandy I dont want you complaining - PP always says I write crap