Many more died of disease and malnutrition in overcrowded, unhygienic prisons and concentration camps. In all of Spain after the final victory of the rebels at the end of March 1939, approximately twenty thousand Republicans were executed. Unknown numbers of men, women and children were killed in bombing attacks and in the exoduses that followed the occupation of territory by Franco’s military forces. For the same reason, at least three hundred thousand men died at the battle fronts. They were killed as a result of the military coup of 17-18 July 1936 against the Second Republic. The following selection is from the book’s prologue.īehind the lines during the Spanish Civil War, nearly two hundred thousand men and women were murdered extra-judicially or executed after flimsy legal process. Victims of the Nationalist massacre at Badajoz in August 1936.Įditor’s note: Paul Preston, perhaps the most thorough and prolific historian of the Spanish Civil War, will publish a major new book, The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain, in New York early next year.
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