The Martyrologies of the Spanish Civil War: New Perspectives for Studying

Abstract

Most of the martyrologies of the Spanish Civil War were written with urgency and improvisation, from the point of view of the winners, and, sometimes, by not too well prepared persons, with a sensibility distant from our times. This fact, among other reasons, has produced a historiographic oblivion of a so much important and dramatic events of the Spanish history. This article pleads for a recovering of the historical memory of those martyrdoms, both the concrete events as the causes of a violence which is comparable, not in number but in cruelty, to the crimes of the Nazis against the Jewish people and other minorities.