The Consorci Memorial dels Espais de la Batalla de l’Ebre(COMEBE) opened in March 2010 a new thematic museum about the battle of the Ebro located in a new building in the municipality of Fatarella (Terra Alta). 'Internationals Soldiers in the river Ebro' is dedicated to international participation in the battle of the Ebro, and to the relationship between the Spanish Civil War and the international context of the twentieth century.

Far away from the display of weapons, ammunition and military objects, the museum shows the intervention of soldiers from around the world in the Spanish Civil War, and specifically in the battle of the Ebro. The exhibition area draws on maps, images of the time, short and concise explanations, and high quality audio-visual material, to explain the international participation in the two warring sides. The museum includes photographic material from around thirty archives.

Through some panels, images of political leaders and flags, the first area recalls the aid that Franco’s government received from the Nazi’s Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Portugal, and the other aid received by republican government from Soviet Union and Mexico. It also explains the ambiguous role of western powers like France and Britain. Also it described how Franco's military uprising led to requests for assistance and to the fast internationalization of the conflict. The aid, that was not always fair, was of special significance in the battle of the Ebro.

In a second area, among others, the museum examines the role of the German Condor Legion and the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie (CTV) on the one hand, and the role of the antifascist international brigades on the other side. Among the members of the international brigades have gone down in history the American Lincoln Battalion (with 4.000 volunteers), the Canadian Mackenzie-Papineau (1.500), the German battalion Thaelmann (between 3.000 and 6.000 volunteers) and the Italian Garibaldi Brigade (3.000 italian volunteers).

On the walls of the interpretation center, facing each other, it reviews the lives of tens soldiers and civilians who participated in the two sides, among themselves some flyers of the Condor Legion like Werner Mölders or Adolf Galland, or the famous war photographer, Robert Capa. An audiovisual that explains the claudication of Western countries to Hitler in Munich ends the exhibition area.

Interview made by A.Caralt/27.03.2010 in Diari de Tarragona to Josep Pujades, veteran of the XI International Brigade of the 35th Division

We understood among us thanks to a dictionary'
Josep Cervelló Pujades, named 'Uncle Postman', of 91 years-old, was one of the major protagonists in the historic inauguration of the museum in La Fatarella. He and another neighbor are the only two survivors of the Fatarella who fought side by side in the same units as the idealist international volunteers. Enrolled in 1937, Pujades joined to the XI International Brigade, made up by soldiers of various nationalities. Yesterday, Pujades reminded as these soldiers were friendly and well-planted and that they wanted to be understood. "They always had a dictionary in his hands, we'd understood between ourselves word for word," recounted yesterday. Those brigades "who came to Spain to fight for the Republic", narrated Pujades, fought with him in Teruel and in the front of the Ebro. When they were demobilized, Pujades continued to fight in others republican units until March 1939. He returned home a Holy Thursday this year, after his parents took for granted that he had died in combat. "I found my parents, but also a broken village. A neighbor, with beret of the Falange, said him that this day would mass. "We will have to go to church, singing as usual ... nothing has happened here."