...also sparked a domestic political conflict by trying to pursue human rights abuses committed by Spain's 1939-75 dictator Francisco Franco. His investigation was in line with government policies, but it was blocked by prosecutors allegedly close to the...
...-- Spain's late dictator Francisco Franco feared being kidnapped by German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Franco's daughter Carmen Franco claims in a new book. Carmen Franco, 82, described a 1940 meeting between Hitler and Franco in Hendaye, France, in the...
...-- When a famous judge opened the first-ever judicial inquiry into the crimes of Spain's late dictator Francisco Franco in the autumn of 2008, it was as if he had unleashed an internal struggle within the national psyche. The debate about the Franco era...
... Madrid - When a famous judge opened the first-ever judicial inquiry into the crimes of Spain's late dictator Francisco Franco in the autumn of 2008, it was as if he had unleashed an internal struggle within the national psyche. The debate...
...in a country that is ready to confront the dark chapter of its dictatorship and perhaps finally put to rest the legacy of Francisco Franco. After igniting a civil war in 1936 when he led a coup against Spain's democratically elected government, Franco...
Background
Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (El Ferrol, December 4, 1892 - November 20, 1975 in Madrid), commonly known as Francisco Franco (pronounced [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko]) or Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was dictator of Spain from October 1936, as de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in 1975. His rule was known for a focus on Spanish nationalism, imperial aspirations, centralism and traditional values.
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