Qualla: Paracuellos Massacres https://qualla.com/paracuellos-massacres en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Paracuellos Massacres https://qualla.com/paracuellos-massacres Paracuellos Massacres: Introduction https://qualla.com/paracuellos-massacres/ They were told they would be set free. Loaded onto trucks in Madrid's overcrowded prisons, the men -- political prisoners, captured rebel soldiers, Catholic priests, and civilians accused of sympathizing with Franco's Nationalists -- were driven to open fields near the towns of Paracuellos del Jarama and Torrejon de Ardoz. There, before dawn on 7 November 1936, as Nationalist forces closed in on Madrid during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, the killing began.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/j/q/paracuellos-massacres-wp/ezjq-paracuellos-massacres-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Paracuellos Massacres: A City Under Siege https://qualla.com/paracuellos-massacres/ By November 1936, Madrid was in crisis. Nationalist armies were at the outskirts, and the Republican government had fled to Valencia. Roughly 5,000 political prisoners and rebel military personnel were being held in the capital's jails, and fear gripped both sides. According to t...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/j/q/paracuellos-massacres-wp/ezjq-paracuellos-massacres-a-city-under-siege.mp3 0:06 2 full Paracuellos Massacres: Three Weeks of Killing https://qualla.com/paracuellos-massacres/ The first shootings began before dawn on 7 November and continued rapidly for three days. On 10 November, they stopped -- but only because an anarchist named Melchor Rodriguez Garcia, who opposed the executions, had been appointed head of Madrid's prison system. Rodriguez's moral...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/j/q/paracuellos-massacres-wp/ezjq-paracuellos-massacres-three-weeks-of-killing.mp3 0:06 3 full Paracuellos Massacres: A Report Shot Down https://qualla.com/paracuellos-massacres/ On 8 December, a plane carrying Dr. Georges Henny, an envoy of the International Red Cross, was shot down over Pastrana as he flew back to France. Henny carried a report on the massacres that he intended to present at the League of Nations in Geneva. The Republican authorities bl...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/z/j/q/paracuellos-massacres-wp/ezjq-paracuellos-massacres-a-report-shot-down.mp3 0:06 4 full Paracuellos Massacres: Counting the Dead https://qualla.com/paracuellos-massacres/ The exact death toll at Paracuellos remains bitterly contested. Estimates range from around 1,000, cited by historians Gabriel Jackson and Paul Preston, to 2,000-2,750, favored by Hugh Thomas, Ledesma, and Julian Casanova. A right-wing journal claimed 12,000 in 1977, but that fig...

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