Repressió, salvament i fugida a la reraguarda catalana, 1936-1939

Abstract

After the military rebellion of July of the 1936 which failed in Catalonia, the revolutionary process obliged to flee to thousands of Catalonians linked to the leading classes, to the Church and to the Catalonian political right. The transcendental work of anonymous people, foreign consulates, but especially of counselors of the Generalitat of Catalonia, favored that the payroll of murders were much less high of what could be predicted. By means of the expedition of documents as the visas and “salvoconductos” on the part of the Catalonian administration, of false passports and the express train and providencial shipment of pursued in diverse ships of scores of, foreign flag thousands of Catalonians could be established abroad in a temporary exile to the wait that the conflict finalized. When this finalized, the majority already they had adhered to the pro-franco cause and many had entered already in the so-called “National Spain”.