Cementerio civil de Madrid

José del Castillo Sáez de Tejada was a Spanish Police Guardia de Asalto (Assault Guard) lieutenant during the Second Spanish Republic. His murder by four Falangist gunmen on 12 July 1936 led to a sequence of events that helped precipitate the Spanish Civil War.

Francisco Largo Caballero was Prime Minister and Minister of War in the Second Spanish Republic. In 1939, he fled to France. In June 1940 he was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was liberated in 1945.
He died in exile in Paris on 31 March 1946 and was buried at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery. In 1978 his remains were returned to Madrid and buried at the cementerio civil de Madrid.

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• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikimedia Commons (2)