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The valley of the fallen: a new El Escorial for Spain
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Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Spain has experienced a cycle of exhumations of the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and has rediscovered that the largest mass grave of the state is the monument that glorifies the Franco regime: the Valley of the Fallen. Building work in the Sierra de Guadarrama, near Madrid, was begun in 1940 and was not completed until 1958. This article analyses for the first time the regimes wish, from the start of the works, for the construction of the Valley of the Fallen to outdo the monument of El Escorial. At the same time the regime sought to create a new location to sanctify the dictatorship through the vast transfer to its crypts of the remains of the dead of the opposing sides of the war.
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Less attention has been given to the victims of the Republican repression as they were recovered, identified and reburied after the war, many of them, since 1959, in the Valley of the Fallen.
“Less attention has been given to the victims of the Republican repression as they were recovered, identified and reburied after the war, many of them, since 1959, in the Valley of the Fallen [15].”
From Twenty years of forensic archaeology and anthropology of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and Francoist Regime (2021) · cites this paper as [15]
In “A limited historiography” (page unavailable), the paper says analytical study of the Valley has been limited compared with work on its memorial aspects. It also documents reinterments beginning in 1959 and identifies people killed in the Republican rear among those originally intended for the monument. But its account says the remains actually transferred were primarily Francoist and Republican soldiers; it does not establish that many victims of Republican repression were recovered, identified and reburied there. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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- Solé, Q.
- Venue
- Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2017
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- 3
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- 3-21
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- 2054-2240
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