Franco's justice
repression in Madrid after the spanish Civil War
- ISBN: 9780199281831
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2005
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Colección: Oxford Historical Monographs
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 256
- Idiomas: Inglés
Madrid became one of the key symbols of Republican resistance to General Franco during the Spanish Civil War following the Nationalists' failure to take the city in the winter of 1936-7. Yet despite the defiant cries of 'No pasarán', they did eventually pass on 28 March 1939. This book examines the consequences in Madrid of Franco's unconditional victory in the Spanish Civil War. Using recently available archival material, this study shows how the punishment of the vanquished was based on a cruel irony - Republicans, not the military rebels of July 1936, were held responsible for the fratricidal conflict. Military tribunals handed out sentences for the crime of 'military rebellion'; mere passivity towards the Nationalists before 1939 was not only made a civil offence under the Law of Political Responsibilities but could cause dismissal from work; and freemasons and Communists, specifically blamed for the Civil War, were criminalized by decree in March 1940.
