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The Legacy of the Spanish Civil War - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The White Terror, also known as the Francoist Repression describes the political repression, including executions and rapes, which were carried out by the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). This is as well as during the first nine years of the regime of General Francisco Franco. In the 1936–1945 period, Francoist Spain had many official enemies: Loyalists to the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939), such as: Liberals, Protestants, homosexuals, Jews, Basque, Catalan, Andalusian and Galician nationalists.
      - The Francoist Repression was motivated by the right-wing notion of a limpieza social, a cleansing of society. This meant the killing of people viewed as enemies of the state began immediately upon the Nationalists' capture of a place. Ideologically, the Roman Catholic Church legitimized the killing by the Civil Guard (national police) and the Falange as the defense of Christendom.
      - Hardwired into the Francoist regime, repression turned "the whole country into one wide prison", according to Ramón Arnabat, enabled by the trap of turning the tables against the loyalist defenders of the Republic by means of accusing them of "adherence to the rebellion", "aid to the rebellion" or "military rebellion". Throughout Franco's rule (1 October 1936 – 20 November 1975), the Law of Political Responsibilities (Ley de Responsabilidades Políticas), promulgated in 1939, reformed in 1942, and in force until 1966, gave legalistic color of law to the political repression that characterized the dismantling of the Second Republic; and served to punish Loyalist Spaniards