Indultos y amnistías durante el primer Franquismo (1936-1939). La adopción e incumplimiento de la ley del indulto de 1870,

Abstract

The coup d’état of July 1936 led to the gradual creation of the basic structures of an incipient public administration in the area controlled by the military rebels. At the same time, these authorities were creating a new legal system to better implement their dictatorial political model. In this context, two years after the beginning of the war, the legal regulation of pardons was established in the so-called national zone. Nevertheless, throughout the rest of the war and in the months immediately before and after the Republican defeat, the authorities on the rebel side established pardons, amnesties and other similar measures without taking into consideration the very rules they had given themselves to process the pardons. In any case, these rules clearly reveal the intentions of the “new state” to give historical legitimacy and criminal immunity to the participants in all the actions of the so-called “national movement”.