Red Terror (Spain)
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Red Terror is the name given by historians to various acts of violence committed from 1936 until the end of the Spanish Civil War by sections of nearly all the leftist groups involved. The May 1931 ar
"Execution" of the Sacred Heart by a communist firing squad is an example of "an assault on the public presence of Catholicism". The image was originally published in the London Daily Mail with a caption noting the "Spanish Reds' war on religion".
Martyrs Cemetery of Paracuellos in Madrid
White Terror (Spain)
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The White Terror, also called the Francoist Repression, was the political repression and mass violence against dissidents that were committed by the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War, a
Red Terror (Spain)
…embarrassed silence or attempts at justification of a large number of historians and memoirists." Analysts such as Helen Graham have linked the Red and White Terrors, alleging that it was the failed rightist coup that allowed the culture of brutal violence to flourish: "its original act of violence was that it killed…
Francoists in captured Irún, December 1936
The end of the monarchy of King Alfonso XIII (r. 1886–1931) precipitated Gen. Francisco Franco's reactionary coup d'état (17 July 1936) against the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939), which launched the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
Galician reapers shot by the Nationalists in Talavera de la Reina in 1936; the execution was attributed to the Republicans by the Francoist propaganda which distributed the photo as evidence of atrocities by the "Marxist hordes"
Executed Republicans in Extremadura, 1936