April 7, 2015, 3:53 Madrid, April 7 (PL) The Royal Academy of History of Spain admitted to the online version of the Biographical Dictionary that Francisco Franco was dictator, according to sources advances the institution released today in Madrid.
The digital version of the play list, probably from the fall, should amend 40 years after the death of Franco, the controversial definition drafted by the academic and member of the Francisco Franco Foundation, Luis Suarez, said the SER.
The dictionary devoted to the military, who led a coup in 1936 and ruled until his death in 1975, five pages in which it cites as Generalissimo and Head of State, highlights its military value and rejects its totalitarian character.
The president of the Academy, Carmen Iglesias, who holds that office since last December, while considered regarding the definition written by Suárez unnecessary tension in society, according induced with the SER .
The Biographical Dictionary is designed as a work of 50 volumes, but from the appearance of the first 25 books a sharp controversy occurred around some of the 43,000 reviews contained, after which it was decided create a commission.
Despite the recommendations of this group of scholars focus on Franco remained, which prompted protests from various parties and attempts to block congressional top six million allocation for the completion of the work.
Although there is no exact number of opponents killed by the regime since 1939, when the Civil War ended, Alberto Reig Tapia historians estimate the number of shot of 130 000 150 mil.
It was also estimated that during the Civil War and the subsequent repression were stolen about 30,000 children born to mothers on the Republican side and given to supporters of Franco.
In 2008, then judge of the Audiencia Nacional Baltazar Garzon meeting a list of 143 000 353 names of missing persons, which is estimated to remain buried in mass graves in unknown about 108,000 places.
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