VOLUME 1: Victory without Peace

The Spanish civil war ended over 75 years ago, and bells celebrating Franco’s victory pealed all over the land, a victory without peace as there was no thought of any form of reconciliation. Spain was swept by a whirlwind of repression and revenge, the precursor of a humanitarian catastrophe without bounds as both during and after the war, the perpetrators of the 1936 military coup massacred the best of Spain. Supporters of the insurgent Franco and his military only represented half of the Spanish population; the other half, excluded and repressed at the most productive stage of their lives, barely managed to survive at the feet of a totalitarian New State that swiftly moved to subjugate them as it sank its teeth into a vanquished people that was unable to flee its grasp .

Still today, a consequence of the persistence of so many iniquities from the past, nowhere in any field of knowledge except that of the Spanish Civil War, do we find such a high degree of academic discord, such confusion in society, so many enduring myths and fallacies, so many ideological influences engulfing the historical reality.

Of even greater concern today is the fanatic dogma, the intractable beliefs of those who refuse to listen to reason, of the crazy men who have never said they were sorry. That is how it all begins: the creation of the most absolute confusion, this total misunderstanding of what must be recognized as a crime against humanity.

Of even greater concern today is the fanatic dogma, the intractable beliefs of those who refuse to listen to reason, of the crazy men who have never said they were sorry. That is how it all begins: the creation of the most absolute confusion.

Today, our society knows very little of these events as the impact of that victory has continued to this day to be filtered by an enduring right-wing policy of enforced silence and memory destruction so as to prevent History from attributing any blame on the aggressors of the past. The so-called Pact of Silence is a misnomer, as there was no such pact. What remains is the desmemoria, the planned eradication of every memory of that period, because memory itself is accusative. From the end of the civil war to the death of Franco in 1975, including the so-called Period of Transition towards democracy during the 1950s, in schools and universities there was and continues to be no detailed or even superficial teaching of the implications of the 1936 military coup and its consequences.

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The Spanish Civil War that began 17 July 1936 with Franco's military coup, did not end with the defeat of the supporters of the legal government 1 April 1939. From the moment the first shot was fired, the military insurgents embarked on a wave of masacre, torture and repression against half of the Spanish population that was terrorized, helpless for 40 years, until Franco's death in 1975.

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