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“These dead were in some regards the antithesis of the Republican disappeared in that their deaths were, from the start, supercharged with state symbolism and the disinterred bodies of many of them (such as those at Paracuellos, but there are many other examples) were made highly visible in the 1940s as part of a ceremonial process of state “sanctification”.”
― Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

“That state has gone, but its narrative enthralls those deaths still today. It is for this reason that the Francoist dead and the Republican dead are still not, nor ever were in the 1980s and 1990s, similar quantities to be “remembered and named”.”
― Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

“an increasing number of court cases in which relatives of deceased perpetrators brought ideologically charged cases for defamation against historians and journalists who had examined instances of Francoist crime,”
― Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

“the law seeks, as it were, an end in symbolism, but does not offer any means of allowing citizens to address what was actually done to whom, by whom and why.”
― Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century