ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the way in which historians of the Francoist repression have shaped their accounts of the past in line both with their anti-Francoism. The chapter meets head-on a range of important conceptual objections to the use of the term genocide in the Spanish case. It is important to note that both anti-Francoist historiography and anti-Francoist political activists have stressed the need to compensate the victims of the Francoist repression and to condemn Francoist crimes morally. The political and social context of Spain in the last 30 years has played a clear role in the study of the Franco regime's violence and the use made by historians of the term 'Francoist repression'. The author's study for Spain comes from two contrasting areas: Galicia, which fell to the rebels in the first days of the Civil War; Madrid, which only came under Francoist occupation at the end of the conflict.
