ABSTRACT
The military uprising led to the Civil War, from which the nationalist faction emerged as victors, was led by Francisco Franco. Franco's government abolished legislation introduced by the Second Spanish Republic, beginning with the Spanish Constitution that was brought into law on 9 December 1931, wherein article 102 determined that pardons could only be sanctioned by Parliament, and that a blanket amnesty should not be granted. The post-war years were marked by the amnesty the victorious faction self-administered with the 1939 Law, 23 September 1939. The Spanish dictatorship was progressively ostracised by the Allied forces in the years after the Second World War. The number of prisoners continued to grow, as the political prisoners from the war and post-war were joined by enemies of the regime. In November 1947, the United States successfully opposed a renewed condemnation of the Francoist regime and the implementation of new sanctions put forward by the UN.
