Political Responsibilities in Franco’s Spain

Abstract

This chapter talks about Francoist repression and gross misrepresentation made by Francoist dictatorship during Spanish Civil War. Francoist economic repression had two clearly different phases. The first phase took place during Civil War, and consisted plundering and seizing assets Reds, the originators, it was said, of material and spiritual harm to Spain. The second phase was deployed when civil war ended. It set in motion throughout Spain an extensive repressive mechanism with constitution Exceptional Courts, which terminated their activity in 1945, although political responsibilities remained active until 1966. Parallel to physical repression two other circles repression were activated in Andalusia: professional purges and seizure assets. This is a repression that thousands Andalusians suffered in silence. Keywords: Andalusia; Exceptional Courts; Francoist economic repression; political responsibilities; Spanish Civil War