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Franco, one of the coup's leaders, [18] and his Nationalist army won the Spanish Civil War in 1939. Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years until his death in 1975. [18] Besides the mass assassinations of republican political enemies, political prisoners were imprisoned in concentration camps [19] and homosexuals were confined in psychiatric ...
Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] [g] (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
As Franco's regime was consolidated, use of capital punishment became scarcer; between 1950 and 1959, 58 Spaniards (including 2 women) were executed by garrotte and 9 by firing squad. In the 1960s, the total number of executions dropped to 6; 2 in 1960, 2 in 1963 and 2 in 1966 (less than in neighbouring France, although several of the ...
Franco had come to power in 1939 after the Spanish Civil War, during which various factions had committed mass executions of political opponents.Numerous historians, including Helen Graham, [1] Paul Preston, [2] Antony Beevor, [3] Gabriel Jackson, [4] Hugh Thomas, and Ian Gibson [5] believe that the summary executions of political opponents by the Francoist side, which became known as the ...
Francisco Maroto del Ojo; Francisco Marcos Pelayo; Francesc Marquès Casadevall; Martín Márquez; Cayetano Martínez Artés; Toribio Martínez Cabrera, General of the Republican Army; Eduardo Medrano Rivas; Modesto Méndez Álvarez; Eustakio Mendizábal Benito; Manuel Merino, at the Cortijo del Enjembraero; Numen Mestre Ferrando; Vicent Miquel ...
Execution techniques deliberately disfigured the corpses so as to make them unrecognizable. Officials of the time have testified that families were afraid to report missing male members, and did not come to identify the bodies of the dead.
"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" is a catchphrase that originated in 1975 during the first season of NBC's Saturday Night (now called Saturday Night Live, or SNL) and which mocked the weeks-long media reports of the impending death of Francisco Franco. It was one of the first catchphrases from the series to enter the general lexicon.
Coat of Arms of Francisco Franco until 1940 Coat of Arms of Francisco Franco as Head of the Spanish State, depicting the Castilian Bend, the Pillars of Hercules and the Laureate Cross. The military career of Francisco Franco Bahamonde began on 29 August 1907, when he took the oath as a cadet at the Spanish Toledo Infantry Academy.