Spaniards were traveling to the past obsessively – and unpleasant in recent years in search of justice, compensation and reconciliation, above all, their own collective identity. Civil War from 1936 to 1939 demand leads to bloody annexation of our national history and identity of the right-wing forces led by Francisco Franco, whose regime is on an area and strictly controlled access to him for almost 40 years.
The transition to democracy after 1975 is based on a number of complex trade-offs made possible by pacto del olvido agreement to forget not only pain and guilt, but also the fact that there are precedents for the “new” values of freedom and democracy in this region the past, which is Spanish Republic. It is only recently that the claims of the historical memory have come to the forefront of political debate, public opinion and media attention, fueled by the identification of a large number of collective graves of victims of repression Francoist, legal claims for benefits and flow prior evidence of untold suffering, injustice and heroism.
