Franco's justice : repression in Madrid after the Spanish Civil War /
Military tribunals handed out sentences for the crime of 'military rebellion'; mere passivity towards the Nationalists before 1939 was not only made a civil offence under the Law of Political Responsibilities but could cause dismissal from work; and freemasons and Communists, specifically...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Oxford historical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Military tribunals handed out sentences for the crime of 'military rebellion'; mere passivity towards the Nationalists before 1939 was not only made a civil offence under the Law of Political Responsibilities but could cause dismissal from work; and freemasons and Communists, specifically blamed for the Civil War, were criminalized by decree in March 1940.". "However, although harsh, the post-war Francoist repression was not exterminatory. Genocide did not take place in Madrid. While a minimum of 3113 judicial executions took place between 1939 and 1944, death sentences were largely based on accusations of participation in 'blood crimes' that occured in Madrid in 1936. This book is also concerned with the question of when and why mass repression came to an end. It shows that the sheer numbers of cases opened against Republican 'rebels', and the use of complex pre-war bureaucratic procedures to process them, produced a crisis that was only resolved by decisions taken by the Franco regime in 1940-1 to abandon much of the repressive system. By 1944, mass repression had come to an end."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 2001. |
| Physical Description: | x, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199281831 (alk. paper) 9780199281831 (alk. paper) |