This episode chronicles the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), from its roots in social and political fracture to its brutal culmination in Franco’s dictatorship, and traces its legacy into the 21st century through the 2019 exhumation of Franco’s body and ongoing efforts to recover victims fr
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