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NUMBERS 400,000 24
THE SPANISH

CIVIL WAR MILLION

of Spain in 1936.
Quantifying the 1936-39 war between The estimated number of people executed The approximate population
the Republicans and the Nationalists by the Nationalists during and after the war.
The Republicans executed up to 72,000.
987

The estimated number of men sent by Italy The number of days the conflict lasted,
to participate in the war, on the Nationalist side. from 18 July 1936 to 1 April 1939.
63 are said to have dated back
The origins of the war

63 years before its outbreak,
The amount of money Adolf Hitler’s Germany donated to the right-wing to the proclamation of the
First Spanish Republic.
Nationalists over the course of the conflict to bolster their resources.

The number of civilians
killed in German-conducted
bombing of Guernica in April
1937, the first-ever deliberate
aerial bombing of a city.

Up to a million lives were lost, making it Spain’s most devastating conflict ever (it was non-belligerent during both World Wars).

110,000 2 200-300

The war was
The estimated number of Republican fought between
troops killed in combat. two groups:
the leftist
Republicans,
who were in
government at
90,000 the right-wing
the time, and
Nationalists.

Following the Nationalists’ victory in 1939,
Spain suffered 36 years under the dictatorship 30,000-35,000
of Francisco Franco until his death in 1975. The estimated number of Nationalist
Franco established concentration camps and troops killed in combat. The estimated number of children who were evacuated from the Mary Evans
forced labour, and ordered executions. Republican zone during the war. Some of these ended up in the UK.
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