The Spanish Holocaust (100 page)

Calle Carnicerías (Butchery Street) in Talavera de la Reina. This photo which records a massacre committed by Franco’s columns was published by his propaganda services as a non-existent Republican atrocity in Talavera la Real.

Mass grave near Toledo.

Pascual Fresquet (centre left) with his ‘death brigade’ in Caspe.

The seizure of the Iglesia del Carmen in Madrid by militiamen.

Arms and uniforms of the Falange found by militiamen in the offices of the monarchist newspaper ABC.

Aurelio Fernández, head of the Patrulles de Control in Barcelona.

Juan García Oliver, anarchist Minister of Justice in Largo Caballero’s cabinet.

Ángel Pedrero García, head of the SIM of the Centre zone, seen here in Francoist captivity shortly before his execution.

The Brigada García Atadell outside their Madrid headquarters, the Rincón Palace. Agapito García Atadell, centre with glasses.

Santiago Carrillo – addressing a meeting in the Madrid bullring, 5 April 1936.

Melchor Rodríguez, the anarchist ‘red angel’ who saved the lives of many right-wing prisoners, in October 1937 with his daughter and his wife who was injured in a rebel bombing raid.

The wounded Pablo Yagüe receives visitors including José Cazorla, far left, and General Miaja, far right.

The cameraman Roman Karmen and the
Pravda
correspondent Mikhail Koltsov who acted as messengers for General Gorev during the siege of Madrid.