In 1944, a group of republican veterans, which also fought in the French resistance against the Nazis, invaded the Val d'Aran in northwest Catalonia, but they were quickly defeated.
Godine 1944. godine, grupa republikanskih veterana, koja se borila i u francuskom pokretu otpora protiv nacista, ušla je u Val d'Aran u sjeverozapadnoj Kataloniji, no lako su poraženi.