Memory and Oblivion

See ➝.

Information provided by the Spanish Ministry of Defense and the Arsenal of Ferrol.

Historical Memory Law in Spain (Law 52/2007 December 26, 2007), Ministry of Justice, ➝. Translated by the author.

“España / Memoria histórica: La fortaleza de la democracia se mide en la capacidad de atender los reclamos de las víctimas,” Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), May 19, 2017, ➝. Translated by the author.

“El Gobierno inicia el procedimiento para exhumar a Francisco Franco del Valle de los Caídos,” El País, August 31, 2018, ➝.

See Marina Otero Verzier, “Silent Walls. The Architecture of Historical Memory in Spain,” Ed 1, 2017, 109-114.

Luis Gómez, “La mayor fosa común de España,” El País, September 21, 2008, ➝.

Rosa Mendez, conversation with the author in Ferrol on August 9, 2017.

Rosa Mendez, conversation with the author in Ferrol on August 9, 2017. The incident was also published in the local newspapers: Pita Parada, Rocío, “Polémico traslado al Torrente del busto del franquista Alonso Vega,” La Voz de Galicia, February 4, 2016, ➝.

Rosa Mendez, conversation with the author in Ferrol on August 9, 2017.

See Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).

Ibid., 18.

Ramón Suñé, “Reliquias franquistas en un almacén,” La Vanguardia, May 1, 2012, ➝.

Meritxell M. Pauné, Quico Sallés, “Una exposición en el Born rescatará de los almacenes dos estatuas simbólicas del franquismo (Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria),” La Vanguardia, August 2, 2016, ➝.

Alfonso Congostrina, “Derribada la estatua de Franco colocada en el Born de Barcelona,” El País, October 21, 2016, ➝.

Julia González Ubeda, “¿Dónde están las estatuas que honraban a Franco?,” Público, December 17, 2017, ➝; Juan Miguel Baquero, “El Ministerio de Defensa cede una estatua de Franco a una fundación para su exhibición,” El Diario, January 31, 2017, ➝.

See ➝.

“PSIB, MES y Podemos, presentan la ley de Memoria Democrática para Baleares que abarca hasta 1983,” La Vanguardia, March 30, 2017, ➝; “El Parlament aprueba la ley de Memoria Democrática que contempla un censo de símbolos franquistas para su retirada,” Europapress, March 27, 2018, ➝.

Information provided by M. Antònia Oliver and Tonina Mercadal from the Associació Memòria de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, August 25, 2017.

Huyssen, Present Pasts, 28.

M. Antònia Oliver and Tonina Mercadal in conversation with the author in Palma de Mallorca, August 25, 2017.

Ibid.

Josep Quetglas Riusech, "Informe sobre la presència de valors formals, culturals o artístics en les restes del monument 'Mallorca a los Héroes del Crucero Baleares," July 10, 2017, ➝.

These paragraphs are a summary by the author of Quetglas’s report.

Josep Quetglas in conversation with the author in Mallorca, August 25, 2017.

Quetglas Riusech, "Informe."

Huyssen, Present Pasts.

Ibid.

“Bulletin nº 93,” Boletin Official del Estato, April 2, 1940, ➝. Translated by the author.

I refer here to the role that the discipline of architecture played in the survival of Franco's dictatorship, and in particular to María González Pendás, Architecture, Technocracy, and Silence: Building Discourse in Franquista Spain (PhD Diss, Columbia University, 2016). For her analysis on the legacies of the regime in contemporary politics and culture, see “Introduction,” pp. 31–39.

Danilo Albin, “Lo que la dictadura robó y la democracia nunca devolvió: así se planificó el expolio franquista,” Público, July 29, 2017, ➝.