(Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa, 2015) Martínez Aznal, Rubén
The fascist repression during the Spanish Civil War severely affected two of most vulnerable
social sectors, teachers and women. Purging teachers
was carried out by behavior reports and the
authority in charge of doing this was the Education
Supreme Council. The purging to women was done
consciously and deliberately and had a specific ceremonial
in which women were expected to be humiliated
publicly. Shaving heads, torture and castor oil
were the most commonly used methods. Navarra,
which led the Uprising from the beginning, shows
two different sides given the high number of victims
of fascist repression invites us to consider that the
Republic settled in Navarre in a larger extent than
it’s usually admitted.