[1] In order to oppose and neutralize this movement, Eugenio Rodríguez Sierra, an officer of the Spanish Republican Navy was instrumental in the foundation of the Antifascist Military Union.
The Unión Militar Antifascista was later merged with the Republican Military Union, another group of similar goals that had been founded in 1929 within the Army, in order to create the Republican Antifascist Military Union.
[2] One of the members of UMRA, Captain Carlos Faraudo, would be blacklisted by Spanish Military Union.
[3] Membership of this secret society was especially high among the Assault Guard.
One of its leading members, Captain Díaz Tendero, was later to perish at the Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camp.