Description: Why did Franco's regime label the guerrilla movement as banditry? Why did it publish death tolls three times lower than the actual number? Why did the Allied countries not intervene in Spain? Why were more than half of the fatalities neighbors who had not fled? "Sánchez Tostado is a historian of great weight due to the seriousness of his research." Paul Preston From the end of the Spanish Civil War until well into the 1950s, many victims of political repression took to the mountains. They were the maquis: councilors, trade unionists, left-wing militants, and workers, reviled by the regime as mere outlaws, who refused to bow to Franco's dictatorship through armed resistance. After World War II, their spectacular actions, skirmishes, kidnappings, and harangues, fueled by the hope of international intervention that never came, gave them a legendary aura. Left to their fate, they suffered ruthless repression that resulted in 208 deaths and 2,000 imprisonments in the province of Jaén alone.
