Delirium
27th January 2006, 02:16
The transfer of nearly 80 crates containing thousands of documents has proved controversial in Spain.
The documents were seized and taken to Salamanca after Gen Franco came to power in 1939 - having overthrown an elected Republican government in the Civil War.
They include details of Gen Franco's campaign of repression against his enemies in Catalonia - republicans, freemasons, communists and anarchists among them.
Catalan archives to be returned (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4651928.stm)
The documents were seized and taken to Salamanca after Gen Franco came to power in 1939 - having overthrown an elected Republican government in the Civil War.
They include details of Gen Franco's campaign of repression against his enemies in Catalonia - republicans, freemasons, communists and anarchists among them.
Catalan archives to be returned (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4651928.stm)