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Paracuellos massacres

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132: 25: 267:(extractions), 33 in total, between November 7 and December 4, as the rebel Nationalist forces launched their assault on Madrid. The Republicans feared the presence of so many potentially hostile prisoners in the rear guard during the battle. The extractions were ordered in writing by the Republican authorities in Madrid, often in documents signed by Segundo Serrano Poncela, Deputy for Public Order, working directly under the supervision of the young 60:, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Knowledge (XXG). 442:
The minimum figure cited is around 1,000 deaths by Gabriel Jackson in 1967 and Paul Preston in 2006, but that is considerably lower than the estimates of most modern historians. Jackson mentions around 1,000 on 6 and 7 November.
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Henny spent four months in hospital and was unable to deliver his report. Louis Delaprée, a French journalist who traveled in the same plane, who died weeks later because of his injuries, blamed General
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From the early days, news spread of the executions, which were denounced by foreign diplomats based in Madrid, including the consul of Norway, Felix Schlayer, who talked about the issue with Carrillo.
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Other historians have put the death toll at between 2,000 to 3,000. Hugh Thomas has 2,000, Beevor: at least 2,000; Ledesma 2,200 to 2,500; Julián Casanova: 2,700, and Javier Cervera over 2,000.
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that were carried out to move prisoners to other locations did not result in executions, and the prisoners were relocated farther from the front, to
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The number of those killed at Paracuellos is still controversial. In 1977, a figure of 12,000 deaths was cited by the right-wing journal
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The executions resumed on 14 November, when Rodríguez resigned, and did not stop until he resumed the post in early December.
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Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Knowledge (XXG) article at ]; see its history for attribution.
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Causa General (List of mass killings committed by Republicans compiled after the war by the Francoist state in Spanish)
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Cervera, Javier (2006), Madrid en guerra. La ciudad clandestina, 1936-1939, segunda edición, Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
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Julía, Santos; Casanova, Julían; Solé i Sabaté, Josep Maria; Villarroya, Joan; and Moreno, Francisco. (2006).
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Cervera, Javier. Madrid en guerra. La ciudad clandestina, 1936-1939. Madrid, 2006. Alianza Editorial.
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Most of those killed in the Paracuellos massacre were civilians, soldiers and Catholic priests.
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during the early stages of the war. The death toll remains a subject of debate and controversy.
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Espinosa, Maestre; García Márquez, José Mº; Gil Vico, Pablo; and Ledesma, José Luis. (2010).
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Most prisoners, who were told they would be set free, were taken by trucks to fields outside
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since before the start of the war, in July 1936. Many of them had been captured during the
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On 8 December a plane carrying Dr. Georges Henny, an envoy sent by the
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About 5,000 political prisoners and rebel military personnel had been
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Many of the prisoners were taken out of prison in so-called
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The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution & Revenge
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The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
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Paracuellos del Jarama
Torrejón de Ardoz
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mass killings
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Spanish Civil War
Siege of Madrid
incarcerated in Madrid
failed uprising of the Montaña barracks
Francisco Largo Caballero
Valencia
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Santiago Carrillo
Alcalá de Henares
Antony Beevor
José Cazorla Maure
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Paracuellos del Jarama
Torrejón de Ardoz

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