From the beginning of the war, the Francoist parastate based its socio-political legitimation on the use of violence in the front and in the rearguard. It had a crystal-clear objective: to end with a democratic regime as the Second Republic was. To achieve that, it had to win the war and to get...

The paper proposes an approximation to determinant place occupied by prisons at the end of the civil war and the dictatorship consolidation in the 40s. There are analyzed the principal contributions of the traditionalist thought in the configuration of the system of redemption of penalties by...