Reos, humillados y ofendidos. Nuevas aportaciones sobre los catedráticos de Bachillerato y la depuración franquista

Abstract

Taking as starting point a recent doctoral thesis on the purge of the professors of History of the secondary education during the first years of the Franco dictatorship, a balance is made on the quantitative and qualitative evaluations that had the systematic repression of the teaching staff and they are explained the historiographical advances made in this subject as well as the better knowledge of the brutal repressive logic of the political system born of the Civil War. At the same time, it is about defending a view that places more emphasis on comparison with other teaching and non-teaching bodies, in such a way that in the future it allows us to systematically estimate in its entirety the numerical and qualitative dimension of repression, but also the rationality and multiple paradoxes of a policy of punishment and terror exercised on teachers and the whole of Spanish society of the time.