“May I? ”. Return from Spanish Republican Exile through the Supreme Council of Military Justice files (1947-1956)
Abstract
This article tracks the Spanish Republican Exile return migration which took place during the first post-war decade in Europe. To this end an in-depth study has been conducted into the Supreme Council of Military Justice files, which are preserved in the General Administrative Archives repository, in Alcalá de Henares. This institution processed, between 1947 and 1956, more than three thousand five hundred applications signed by exiles who were hoping to know whether they were charged with any legal responsibility in the case of returning home. Observation through the analysis of the refereed data – both in quantitative and qualitative terms –, will provide useful information about the identity of these exiles who were planning homecoming and, moreover, about the reaction to it of the Spanish Francoist authorities.
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