Defending the Republic: The García Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936

J. Ruiz

DOI:10.1177/0022009407071625

Corpus ID: 159559553

Defending the Republic: The García Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936

@article{Ruiz2007DefendingTR,
  title={Defending the Republic: The Garc{\'i}a Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936},
  author={J. Ruiz},
  journal={Journal of Contemporary History},
  year={2007},
  volume={42},
  pages={115 - 97}
}

J. Ruiz
Published 2007
History
Journal of Contemporary History

During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39, an estimated 50,000 executions took place in the Republican zone. Of these, around 9000 were killed in the Spanish capital. Explanations of Republican violence still tend to assume that it was the work of ‘uncontrollables’ and frequently cite Agapito García Atadell as an example. Atadell led a brigade of 48 men that spread terror in Madrid during the summer of 1936 before he attempted to escape for Cuba that October. However, he was captured in the… Expand

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