Checas
Checas was the name Republicans gave to the political police interrogation centers during the Spanish Civil War . These were built on the Soviet model and introduced by the Spanish Communist Party , together with Soviet "advisors". In them political opponents who were accused of complicity with the fascists were tortured. The communists in particular stood out here. By the end of 1936, all political parties and unions affiliated with the Republican government had their own Checas nationwide. Torture and murder took place in them in complete illegality. In Madrid alone there were 226 Checas. The Marxists and anarchists preferred to set up their Checas in monasteries and churches , for example in the monastery “Salesas Reales” or in the church “Santa Cristina”. Some of the Checas were directly subordinate to the government authorities, such as the Checa "Bellas Artes y Fomento" of the Provincial Committee for Public Investigations (span: Comité Provincial de Investigación Pública). The government under the Popular Frente tolerated the events in the Checas.
According to César Vidal, a prominent proponent of historical revisionism , 11,705 people are believed to have been murdered in Madrid alone.
According to current research, around 50,000 people fell victim to the republican repression during the war, including around 7,000 priests , nuns and members of religious associations. According to current research, there were 140,000 republican victims of the Francoist repression by the end of the war.
Web links
- César Vidal: Las checas no tenían piedad. Newspaper article in El Mundo from June 26, 2003 [1] (span.)
swell
- Vidal, César: Checas de Madrid. 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ Javier Tusell (July 2004): "El revisionismo histórico español": http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/espana/doc/revis.html