Crosses of Memory and Oblivion - The Monuments to the Fallen in the Spanish Civil War (1936-2022)

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), crosses began to appear to commemorate the fallen killed in violence behind the lines. They commemorated the those who, according to the rebels’ propaganda, had given their lives ‘for God and for Spain’ In July 2021 the Spanish Government finally approved a new ‘bill of democratic memory’ in which, at last, the Francoist legacy of the monuments to the fallen is addressed The work follows the path opened by other works on war memorials, the politics of memory and the social memory of society in 20th century Europe