Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Repurcussions of the war

There have been some interesting articles on the BBC in the past year or so about the efforts to find the bodies of those executed during the civil war. Many of those executed by the Nationalists were left in unmarked mass graves and only recently have their relatives felt able to publicly look for their remains. Among the victims was the poet Federico Garcia Lorca. One of the more famous victims of the Falangist execution squads, his body was not found.
Here is the article about exhumations
This article is about the dig for Lorca
And here is the article about the failure to find Lorca

There is also an interesting book out by Giles Tremlett, entitled Ghosts of Spain: Travels through Spain and its silent past (ISBN-13 978-0802716743) that was inspired by the phenomenon of the mass graves and the pact of silence that kept them hidden for so long.

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