Juan López Sánchez en Francia by Dr. Pedro García-Guirao

“…This work explores the scantly studied Spanish anarchist exile that followed the Spanish Civil War and lasted until Francisco Franco’s death and, arguably, beyond. The article is built around the controversial case of Juan López Sánchez (1900-1972) –one of the four anarchists that became ministers during the Second Spanish Republic. …”
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The Ghosts of Justice and the Law of Historical Memory by Mónica López Lerma

“…Drawing on the ethico-political relationship between memory and justice in the sense proposed by Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, this article addresses the recovery of the historical memory of the victims of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship (1939–1975). It does so by contrasting Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel Beltenebros (Prince of Shadows, 1989) and the recent Spanish “Law of Historical Memory” (2007). …”
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El exilio europeo del nacionalismo gallego a partir de 1939. Francia y la figura de Xohán Xosé Plá by Uxío-Breogán Diéguez Cequiel

“…The presence of the Galician Republicans in Europe, following the flight of the Democrats who avoided falling into the hands of the putschists from July 1936, was accentuated in the spring of 1939 after the victory of the fascists commanded by Francisco Franco. Even though the presence of Galician sovereignists was weak compared to the whole of Galician exile, whose main nucleus was in South America, it is true that it has a great qualitative interest if we consider its activity. …”
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The World's Evangelical Alliance and the Spanish Civil War by F Hale

“…Generally speaking, Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom, alarmed at the violence which anticlerical mobs inflicted on religious personnel in parts of Spain and concerned about their denomination's loss of its privileged status, supported the insurgency of General Francisco Franco, leader of the ultimately victorious Nationalist forces. …”
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Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain by F. Hale

“…Generally speaking, Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom favoured the insurgency of General Francisco Franco, who promised to restore the disestablished Catholic Church to its perch of privilege from which the socialist government had removed it and end the violent anticlericalism which had ravaged religious personnel in Spain. …”
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