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People put red carnations next to photographs during the 87th Spanish Republic anniversary ceremony to pay tribute to people killed in the Spanish Civil War at the Almudena cemetery in Madrid, on April 14, 2018. Spain’s Catalonia regional government says it has identified 357 foreign militiamen who disappeared in the region during the Spanish Civil War. Of these, 212 are Germany, Austria and Netherlands nationals. Researchers have also been able to find the likely exact area where all they died or were badly wounded. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Spain identifies 212 German, Austrian and Dutch fighters who went missing during Spanish Civil War

By David Brunat - Associated Press

A friar walks in front of the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) mausoleum on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, on Oct. 13, 2019. Initial forensic work has begun on Monday June 12, 2023 to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Franco's forces who are among tens of thousands of people buried anonymously in the Valle de Cuelgamuros. mausoleum, formerly known as the Valle de los Caídos, or Valley of the Fallen. The exhumations, if successful, will be the first for victims under Spain's historical memory law that is aimed at making reparations to the victims. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) **FILE**

Work begins in Spain to exhume bodies of 128 Franco victims buried anonymously at mausoleum

By Ciarán Giles - Associated Press

A man looks at the Pazo de Meiras palace in the Galician region of Sada on Wednesday Sept. 2, 2020. A Spanish court has ordered the heirs of Gen. Francisco Franco to hand over to the state the ownership of a 19th-century palace used by the late dictator as a summer retreat.The Spanish government had filed a lawsuit against the dictator's descendants arguing that the Pazo de Meiras palace in the northwestern Galicia region was illegally acquired by the former dictator during the country's 1936-1939 Civil War. (M.Dylan/Europa Press via AP)

Spain: Judge strips late dictator’s heirs of summer retreat

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Spain to exhume 31 bodies from Franco’s former mausoleum

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People celebrate the exhumation of late Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco in Madrid, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Spain has exhumed the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid and flown them by helicopter for reburial in a small family crypt north of the capital. The government-ordered, closed-door operation on Thursday satisfies a decades-old desire of many in Spain who considered the vainglorious mausoleum that Franco built an affront to the tens of thousands who died in Spain's Civil War and his subsequent regime as well as to Spain's standing as a modern democratic state. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Francisco Franco exhumation backfires on Pedro Sanchez, Spain leftists

By Martin Arostegui - Special to The Washington Times

A man carries a wreath of flowers at Mingorrubio's cemetery, outskirts of Madrid, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Forty-four years after his demise, the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco are to be dug out of his grandiose resting place outside Madrid and taken to a small family crypt, finally satisfying a long-standing demand of his victims' relatives and others who suffered under his regime. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain begins exhuming late dictator Gen. Francisco Franco’s remains

By Ciaran Giles - Associated Press

National police officers stand guard at the main gate outside Mingorrubio's cemetery, outskirts of Madrid, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Forty-four years after his demise, the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco are to be dug out of his grandiose resting place outside Madrid and taken to a small family crypt, finally satisfying a long-standing demand of his victims' relatives and others who suffered under his regime. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

The Latest: Spain’s Sanchez heralds exhumation of Franco

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In this photo taken on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, Guardia Civil officers stand guard in front of The Valley of the Fallen mausoleum near El Escorial, outskirts of Madrid, After a tortuous judicial and public relations battle, Spain's Socialist government has announced that Gen. Francisco Franco's embalmed body will be relocated from a controversial shrine to a small public cemetery where the former dictator's remains will lie along with his deceased wife. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

AP Explains: A look at Franco and why he is being exhumed

By CIARÁN GILES - Associated Press

Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco's grandson, Francisco Franco Martinez-Bordiu holds up a pre-constitutional Spanish flag he wants draped over the coffin General Franco during his reburial Thursday after an interview with The Associated Press in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Weather permitting, the Spanish dictator's preserved body will be flown Thursday by helicopter to the Franco family's private chapel in the Mingorrubio cemetery. It's a discrete site compared to the Valley of the Fallen, a vainglorious mausoleum and basilica that Franco built and where he was buried in 1975. The complex, which is topped by a 152-meter (500-foot) granite cross that can be seen for miles, still remains a National Heritage site. (AP Photo/Paul White)

AP Interview: Franco grandson blasts Spain over exhumation

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

In this Friday, April 5, 2019 photo, a view inside Franco's family tomb in Mingorrubio's cemetery, outskirts of Madrid. After a tortuous judicial and public relations battle, Spain's Socialist government has announced that Gen. Francisco Franco's embalmed body will be relocated from a controversial shrine to a small public cemetery where the former dictator's remains will lie along his deceased wife. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spanish village gears up for dictator Franco’s remains

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, file photo, a worshiper holds a rosary at the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum near El Escorial, outskirts of Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Alfonso Ruiz/File)

Spain to exhume dictator Franco’s remains to discreet grave

By BY CIARÁN GILES and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, a Spanish police walks past Franco's family tomb in Mingorrubio's cemetery, outskirts of Madrid. After a tortuous judicial and public relations battle, Spain's Socialist government has announced that Gen. Francisco Franco's embalmed body will be relocated from a controversial shrine to a small public cemetery where the former dictator's remains will lie along his deceased wife. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spanish government vows to exhume Franco before election

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

The Latest: Court rules Spain can exhume Franco’s remains

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A protester argues with police, right, after not being able to protest directly outside the Supreme Court in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. The Spanish Supreme Court has ruled that the caretaker Socialist government can exhume the remains of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. Six judges met to decide on an appeal by Franco's relatives against the government plan to remove the body from the gigantic Valley of the Fallen mausoleum he built on the outskirts of Madrid and take it to a cemetery elsewhere.(AP Photo/Paul White)

Spanish court says government can exhume Franco’s remains

By CIARAN GILES - Associated Press

Vatican denies interference in debate over Franco exhumation

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Spanish government sues Franco family over palace

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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, flowers lay on the tomb of Spanish former dictator General Francisco Franco in a mausoleum in the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen), near Madrid, Spain. Spain’s Supreme Court announced Tuesday June 4, 2019, is temporarily halting the government’s plan to move the remains of Gen. Francisco Franco to a discreet tomb as judges have yet to rule on appeals from descendants of the dictator.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File)

Spanish court halts government plan to exhume Franco

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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2018, file photo, Ruta Sepetys attends the world premiere of &quot;Ashes in the Snow&quot; at the Los Angeles Film Festival in Culver City, Calif. Best-selling historical novelist Sepetys is setting her next work in Spain during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Best-seller Ruta Sepetys sets next book in Franco-era Spain

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Flowers are placed on the tomb of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco inside the basilica at the the Valley of the Fallen monument near El Escorial, outside Madrid, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. Tuesday marks the 43rd anniversary of the death of Dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Supporters mark Franco’s death amid efforts to dig him up

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Fascists and extreme far right wing supporters rise their right arm saluting the fascist anthem as they remember former Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco on the 43th anniversary of his death, in Madrid,Spain, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. Hundreds of people nostalgic for Spain's fascist past held a rally on Sunday to mark the 43th anniversary of dictator Francisco Franco's death. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Feminist activists interrupt Franco memorial event in Madrid

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