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"The Francoist command in the Spanish Civil War carried out a programme of mass violence from the start of the conflict. Through a combination of death squads and the use of military trials around 150,000 Spaniards met their deaths. Others perished in concentration camps and prisons. The terror took other forms, such as mass rape, extortion, "appropiation" of children and forced exile. The planned nature of this violence meant that the Francoists decided when the violence would begin, the way it would be carried out and when it would come to an end. This is a primary reason why the judicial concept of genocidal practice, alongside the use of comparative history, can furnish insights. The July 1936 uprising was not only aimed at ending the Republican regime, but had ideological goals: preventing the supposed Bolshevik Revolution, defending the 'unity of Spain' and reversing center-left social and cultural reforms. An over-arching objective was the elimination of a social group identified as 'an enemy of Spain' - a group defined as: not Catholic, not Spanish, not traditional. The genocidal intent of the coup via access to state resources, their monopoly of force in some territories and their subsequent victory ensured that the practice of genocide could be realized in the whole Spanish territory, permitting the hegemonic nature of the denialist discourse surrounding these crimes. Public debate over Francosim brings with it substantive disagreements. The Genocidal Genealogy of Francoism engages with the root causes of these disagreements"--

La relación entre historia y memoria a través de la espacialidad se estudia en este artículo a partir del caso de la violencia masiva del contexto español del golpe de 1936, la guerra civil y el primer franquismo. Se analiza el proceso de transformación de los lugares de violencia en lugares de memoria durante la dictadura franquista primero, y en la democracia actual nacida en la transición. El presente texto argumenta que en el caso español se ha transformado los lugares de memoria en lugares de negación, como paso previo a su consagración en lugares de olvido e impunidad ; This article analyses the relation between history and memory through the case of the massive violence of the Spanish context after the coup of 1936, the Spanish Civil War and the first years of Franco's regime. It analyses the process of transformation of the sites of violence in sites of memory during Francoism, and in the current democracy that was born in the transition. The present article argues that in the Spanish case this transformation meant the creation of places of denial, like a previous step to its conversion in places of oblivion and impunity ; Este artículo se enmarca en los proyectos: "Actitudes sociales en contextos de violencia estatal masiva: procesos de adaptación y resiliencia en la retaguardia de la Guerra Civil española (Galicia, 1936-1939)" (2016-2019) HAR2016-80359-P, IP: Antonio Míguez Macho, Proyectos de Excelencia, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad y "Dos lugares da violencia aos lugares da memoria: actitudes sociais nos espazos de reclusión, execución e enterramento durante o Golpe, a Guerra Civil e o franquismo en perspectiva comparada" (2017-2020) 2017-PG128 ; SI