Spanish Civil War Interview Series 11: Gender Violence in the Spanish Civil War with Charlotte Walmsley
History of the Second World War
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The Culture of Denial in the Francoist Press
Lina Odena, who was known as sort of a female martyr, killed herself instead of being captured by the Francoist troops because of her fear. And so there's, with although there's a lot of denial in the Francoist press, you know, we would never do this. But yes, no, a culture of real sort of suspicion distrust and sort of violence against sort of leftist women, absolutely.
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