ABSTRACT
Connecting past and present, Guell’s project opens the debate about the politics of terror implemented by the Francoist dictatorship as well as its insufficient visibility and acknowledgement in the public space and Spanish law. Mola’s motto sums up well the warfare strategy that was implemented when rebels conquered Spanish territories as well as their general attitude, especially in Republican zones, after Franco had won the war. One of the anti-Francoist pamphlets circulating clandestinely in response stressed that Grimau’s death sentence in fact perpetuated the “spirit and procedures of civil war, maintaining hatred as the inspiring norm of conduct, deepening and not closing the open blood pit between Spaniards”. Political violence had become in Francoist Spain part of a wider, institutionalised policy that aimed to “correct” Spanish society. This aim survived all through the dictatorship’s existence even if challenged by a growing oppositional movement that developed across different sectors of society, increasing social mobilisation.
