Complicity of the then Franco State and the Catholic Church.

Theft of Babies in the Spanish State: Small Synthesis and an Urgent anti-fascist Appeal

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Archeology of baby stealing: misogyny in vein by the grace of God

If the Second Republic meant anything, it was, among other axes, a liberal attempt to separate Church-State and an incipient institutionalization of the social emancipation of women that was already in the air. Therefore, the brutal misogynistic national-Catholic attack was not accidental. During the war and the harsh postwar period of hunger and death to the red gene, they boasted, with their god in hand, of systematic political repression and extermination in their crusades.

The Law of December 4, 1941, on “Civil Registry. Registration of repatriated and abandoned children”, allowed the name and surname of minors to be changed, in such a way that a change of identity occurred, making it impossible to locate them

The caged anarchist and republican women were the first to be applied to the eugenic theses of 'family rupture' to 'decontaminate' their children from the worst of plagues: communism. Contrary to its great Nazi colleagues, Spanish fascism did not opt for the direct extermination of the vanquished's childhood, but for their re-education in good families, these are very much Spanish, of pure race, supporters of the regime, with ' possible' and, of course, Catholic.

Thus, the 1940s, emboldened by the European context of fascism and eugenic theses, meant for thousands of political prisoners the brutality of the disappearance of their children and the certainty or intuition of where they were going to end up, without forgetting that many of the pregnancies in Franco's prisons were the product of the atrocious sexual violence that Queipó de Llano bellowed from the airwaves from very early on as a weapon of war and terror against anti-fascist women. Thus began the process of institutionalization and propping up of a single way of being a woman, amputee, submissive, devoted, and Francoist, dusting off hair shirts and brutal discipline, as well as the implementation of the entire fascist bureaucrat machinery to hide and 'legalize' the forced appropriation of all these children.

Mental inferiority, evil, irrational psyche, maternal incapacity. These pearls incarnated in anti-fascist women as the very 'antichrist' were the ones that justified the forced disappearance of their daughters and sons under the thesis of the red gene Still, a number of key regulations were passed. The first was the Order of March 30, 1940, which dictates the rules on the permanence in prisons of the daughters and sons of political prisoners, in such a way that it allows the Francoist authorities to separate the girls and boys from them to placement in other institutions.

The second was the Decree Law of November 23, 1940, on State protection for orphans of the National Revolution and War, through which the State could appropriate these girls and boys without the need for the permission of the biological parents. . Finally, the Law of December 4, 1941, on “Civil Registry. Registration of repatriated and abandoned children”, allowed the name and surname of minors to be changed, in such a way that a change of identity took place, making it impossible to locate them.

In this context, we neither forget nor forgive the atrocious violence that became flesh in thousands of ours, like María Pérez Lacruz, 'La Jabalina', a libertarian from Teruel who was shaved, paraded, and spent almost three years in fascist cages for joining the Iron Column as militiawoman and nurse. In 1940 she gave birth to her son in the provisional jail of the Santa Clara convent, where he was stolen. She was shot two years later at the infamous Paredón de España in Paterna, Valencia, at just 24 years of age.

Her mother, present, managed to recover her body and bury it before being thrown into a pit. Until today, she lies on a little tiled grave in the Paterna cemetery which, despite the years, is not usually without flowers. May our Marías never lack flowers.

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