Juan Carrasco “Right from the start, living conditions in the concentration camps were inhuman. In Adge, as in many other camps, there was nothing, absolutely nothing, when the first few thousands of refugees were dropped off and left to their own devices. It was only after a few days that the French army arrived with trucks filled with material. The refugees had to build the barracks themselves, and those were never enough to accommodate them all.” Juan Carrasco in his book The Odisea of the Spanish Republicanos in Francia, from Los españoles del Winnipeg, J. Ferrer Mir, pp.39-40)