Dealing with the past in Spain. Between amnesia and collective memory

During the long Franco dictatorship the critical discussion of the civil war and the terrorism of the post-war era was not possible. At the beginning of the new Democracy there was general consensus of all political factions to abstain from explicit judgement of the recent past. When near the end of the 20th century it soon became evident that remembering war and dictatorship would lead to a deepening of social division