The Rebellious Army And Its Combatants In The Spanish Civil War (1926-1939)

Abstract

The article aims to show the measures developed by the rebel army during the Spanish Civil War. Some measures that were progressively hardening, until reaching its point with the first Francoist government. These policies were based on integration, surveillance and punishment. Surveillance and punishment were applied because the troop was not homogeneous socio-politically. For this reason, knowing the measures of coercion and cohesion, the social attitudes of the conscript soldiers were studied, most of them within the insurgent army. Various attitudes and that in all cases should not be understood in an ideological way, but product of a physical and mental fatigue towards war. Especially the second, because in the civil war the forced soldiers were victims and executioners.