Postcards from the Valley of the Fallen. The memorial grave to Franco built while he was still alive, as if he were a pharoah, by what in many cases were prisoner slave labourers who had lost the war. Of the more than 30,000 bodies buried here only two are mentioned: Francisco Franco and Falangist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera.
Bronze crucifix produced in Mallorce in 1936. It was given to people who had donated gold, jewels and iron to Franco's cause. It reads "I love Spain" followed by the date of the military coup. On the back it reads. "Pro aris et focis" Latin meaning "For Alter and Hearth" or "For God and home".
Bronze crucifix produced in Mallorce in 1936. It was given to people who had donated gold, jewels and iron to Franco's cause. It reads "I love Spain" followed by the date of the military coup. On the back it reads. "Pro aris et focis" Latin meaning "For Alter and Hearth" or "For God and home".
Los Girasoles Ciegos (The Blind Sunflowers). 2004 Spanish novel by Alberto Méndez.
Överlevarna (Survivors, 2011) by Swedish photographer and author Kerstin Ekström. The book features interviews and photographic portraits of forty survivors from the civil war and dictatorship.
Donated by Tim Lindqvist and Tina.
Elsewhere
- AUDIO. The Cathedral of the Fallen. BBC Radio 4 illuminating about the horror represented by Franco’s mausoleum.
- Paul Preston: Franco: A biography. The seminal work on the dictator.
- VIDEO Spain’s stolen babies (BBC – YouTube) – more than 200,000 taken by the Franco regime (and after).
- Book: Valley of the Fallen: The (N)ever Changing Face of General Franco’s Monumen (2013) by Gareth Stockey
- Nick’s article on the Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of Franco in Barcelona
- Helen Graham: Interrogating Francoism: History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain (2016) Superbly dissects the regime.