[1] At the end of the Spanish Civil War, according to the Francoist State's figures, there were more than 270,000 men and women held in prisons, and some 500,000 had fled into exile.
In the Second World War, large numbers of refugees from Spain were returned or interned in Nazi concentration camps as stateless enemies.
[2] Releasing all political prisoners was a part of the transition to democracy after the death of the caudillo Francisco Franco in 1975.
[3][4] In 2014, an Argentinian judge issued warrants for the arrest of Antonio González Pacheco, a Spanish policeman accused of torturing prisoners during Franco's military rule, but the Spanish High Court refused on the basis that the statute of limitations had run out on the accusation against him.
As the name implies, it makes available information regarding victims of the Civil War and the Francoist State.