Memorial Victims Franco-regime

This memorial commemorates the victims of the reprisal measures by the Franco Regime, during and after the Spanish Civil War. Between 1936 and 1956, between 4,000 and 5,000 people were executed in the Cementerio de San José de Granada. They are also buried here in mass graves.

The mass executions of Republicans and other opponents by the Nationalists took place from 1936 (from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War) to 1945 and are referred to as Spain's White Terror. Estimates of the death toll range from 150,000 to 400,000 people.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Wikimedia Commons