Аннотация:During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) thousands of people were murdered, judicially and extrajudicially, in both the Francoist and Republican rearguards.To these must be added thousands of murders that took place during the Franco dictatorship.Nonetheless, the fate of the victims murdered in the Republican zone has been very different to that of the victims of Francoism.While the former have received public recognition, justice and commemoration from the start of the war up to thr present, the latter have suffered denial and invisibility.It is my intention to discuss the implications of this denial and invisibility, which are central to the historiographical debate and the"memory wars" in Spain.Although the denial of Francoist crimes continues to this day, it originated in the administrative and discursive policies implemented by Francoism from the start of the war.In order to cover up extrajudicial massacres and murders, the Francoist authorities used several methods: 1) not recording the names of the victims, 2) recording some of them but covering up the real cause of death, 3) 'disappearance' of people and 4) burials in mass graves. 1 This policy was reinforced from the 1960s
