Bloody Documents from de Spanish Civil War: Valdihuelo´s mine, Badajoz, Spain

Abstract

To recover the historical memory of the Spanish civil war, the investigator has to locate documentation referred to the graves of victims of the fight, with information about the places such as, number of victims, cause of the death, etc. As a result of an archaeological excavation in the mine of Valdihuelo in San Vicente of Alcántara (Badajoz), human rests have been recovered that are being analyzed at this moment. However, these analyses have confirmed that these graves correspond to deceases produced during the Civil War and immediately later. The next job was the location of documentation with necessary information for the identification of the victims and causes of their death, etc. The aim is to present a methodology of documental work for these purposes and the results of this investigation.