White Terror (Spain)

Francoist Repression
Part of Spanish Civil War and Francoist Rule of Spain
Twenty-six republicans executed by fascists that belonged to Franco's Nationalists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Location	Spain
Date	1936-1975
Target	Extermination of Spanish Republicans
Attack type	Politicide, Mass murder, Forced Labour, Human Experimentation, War Rape
Deaths	150,000 to 400,000
Perpetrators	Nationalist faction of Spain and the proceeding government
Motive	Falangism

In Spain, la Represión Franquista in English the “Francoist Repression” also known as the White Terror; was the series of acts of politically motivated violence, rape, and other crimes committed by the Nationalist movement during the Spanish Civil War (17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939) and during the first decade of Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1 October 1936 – 20 November 1975). The mass killings of the Spanish Republican loyalists, which included Popular Front adherents, liberals, Socialists, Trotskyists, Communists, anarchists, Protestants, freethinkers, intellectuals and among other things, people branded as Catalan and Basque separatists and Freemasons, occurred from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, in July 1936, and continued unabated until 1945.

Nationalist atrocities, which the authorities ordered to eradicate any trace of "leftism" in Spain, were common, ideological practice. The notion of a limpieza (cleansing) was an essential part of the right-wing rebel strategy, and the process of assassination began immediately after the nationalists had captured an area. In the rebel-controlled zone, the nationalist military, the Civil Guard, and the fascist Falange carried out the violence in name of the regime, which was ideologically by the Roman Catholic Church.

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