![]() ![]() The law declared guilty of a crime of military rebellion, all those who were members of a Popular Front party from 1 October 1934 and all of those who had opposed the military Coup d'état of the 17–18 July including all government officers of the Republic and all members of the Republican Armed Forces. On 13 February 1939, Franco published in Burgos the Law of Political Responsibilities ( Ley de Responsabilidades Políticas). who to the Franco government were all reds and, once placed beyond the nation, they were deemed to be without rights.". Those excluded, broadly speaking, were defeated Republican constituencies who could not leave Spain. Īccording to Helen Graham, Francoist Spain was "constructed as a monolithic community by means of the brutal exclusions of specific categories of people. According to Antony Beevor, Nationalist Spain was "little more than an open prison for all those who did not sympathize with the regime". In February 1939, soon after the fall of Catalonia, the war was lost for the Republic, and Francisco Franco rejected the only condition of the Republican government for a surrender: a guarantee of no reprisals against the defeated Republicans. It was a central piece of the Francoist repression in the postwar era, and an estimated half-a-million people were prosecuted. It was promulgated to give a legal cover to the repression carried out during the dismantlement of the Spanish republican institutions, as well as to penalise those who had remained loyal to the legally established government at the time of the July 1936 military rebellion against the Spanish Republic. ![]() The law was modified in 1942 and remained in force until 1966. The law targeted all supporters of the Second Spanish Republic and penalized membership in the Popular Front of the defeated republic. The Law of Political Responsibilities ( Ley de Responsabilidades Políticas) was a law issued by Francoist Spain on 13 February 1939 two months before the end of the Spanish Civil War. As published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado in 1939 ![]()
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