ABSTRACT
The Spanish Civil War started after a military rebellion on 1936, against the legitimate government of the Second Republic. The war ended on 1939, and a dictatorship was established with General Francisco Franco as head of the state. Franco's dictatorship commemorated victory by populating the realms of public memory with the names of those fallen for God and Spain', while simultaneously trying to suppress even the memory of the vanquished republicans, thus imposing a distinctive narrative of the war. Public policies of memory of the civil war during Franco's regime were based on the development of a national Catholic narrative of civil war and propaganda glorifying military victory. Whether somebody supports the recovery of the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's repression is not always determined by having someone in the family who suffered the repression. Indeed, it is difficult to find family who did not suffer somehow the violence or consequences of the war and afterwards.
