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Historical Memory

World War II

José Epita Mbomo, the Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

Tereixa Constenla|Madrid | 01-03-2021 - 09:26 UTC

Born in modern-day Equatorial Guinea, he caused a national stir when he married a white woman in 1936, went into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War, spent time in several internment camps and ended up leading a local group of the French Resistance. EL PAÍS has reconstructed his extraordinary life based on newly found documents and family accounts

MADRID ARCHITECTURE

Robert Capa photo of shell-damaged houses helps tenants start new life

Luis de Vega/Antonio Nieto (Video)/Saúl Ruiz (Video)|Madrid | 26-02-2021 - 15:16 UTC

A picture of the aftermath of Spanish Civil War bombings published in 1937 triggered a successful movement to save a crumbling property from demolition and find decent housing for its struggling residents

FRANCO DICTATORSHIP

The tiny treasures of Franco’s victims

Natalia Junquera|Madrid | 11-12-2020 - 13:11 UTC

A compilation of the personal belongings found among bones and bullets marks the 20th anniversary of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory

HISTORICAL MEMORY

Franco’s summer palace is handed to Spanish state amid legal battle

Silvia R. Pontevedra|Sada | 11-12-2020 - 12:29 UTC

Dictator’s descendants appeal a decision that strips them of a property known as Pazo de Meirás in Galicia that they used for over 80 years

HISTORICAL MEMORY

New documentary breaks silence on Franco-era cop’s culture of torture

Gregorio Belinchón|Madrid | 16-11-2020 - 07:38 UTC

In his latest project, director Max Lemcke is giving back a voice to the victims of “Billy the Kid,” one of the dictatorship’s most notorious police officer

HISTORICAL MEMORY

Spain drafts bill against remaining legacy of Franco era

Carlos E. Cué/El País|Madrid | 15-09-2020 - 15:01 UTC

The new law will offer citizenship to the descendants of members of the International Brigades, who fought on the republican side during the civil war

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Spain to release funds for mass grave exhumations

Natalia Junquera/El País|Madrid | 30-07-2020 - 09:29 UTC

Government announces €750,000 in grants, nine years after conservatives slashed the budget for historical memory projects

HISTORICAL MEMORY

Franco’s exhumation: Bringing an end to a symbol of the Spanish dictatorship

El País|Madrid | 24-10-2019 - 15:47 UTC

Forty-four years later, the remains of the late autocrat were transferred from the Valley of the Fallen today to a cemetery in Madrid, cheered on by supporters

HISTORICAL MEMORY

The rattle that united a mother shot in the Spanish Civil War and her 83-year-old son

Nuño Domínguez | 24-06-2019 - 14:01 UTC

Catalina Muñoz Arranz took the toy with her to her execution, and nearly eight decades later it has been returned to her child, who was just eight months old when she was killed

HISTORICAL MEMORY

Spanish Civil War: The woman who took a baby rattle to her execution

Nuño Domínguez|Cevico de la Torre | 09-05-2019 - 08:58 UTC

Archeologists found the toy lying next to the body of Catalina Muñoz, who was shot in 1936 and buried in Palencia, northern Spain

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