¿Colaboracionistas catalanes? Antifranquismo y franquismo en la Cataluña de posguerra (1939-1947)

Abstract

Catalan collaborationists? Anti-Francoism and Francoism in post-war Catalonia (1939-1947)

Did Catalan collaborationism exist, similar to its counterpart in occupied France? Can we draw historical comparisons between them? Catalan anti-Francoists asked themselves these questions during their clandestinity inland and during the exile, when faced with what they called «our traitors»: writers, politicians, journalists, etc., most of whom were part of the coming from the Catalanist and regionalist movement before 1936, but started supporting the Francoist regime vigorously as soon as the war ended. They were labelled as «collaborationists», «traitors», «mercenaries», «botiflers», etc. in the mid Forties, when a virtually unknown phenomenon emerged: in the immediate aftermath of the war, Catalonia experienced a peculiar civil, cultural, political and professional war which caused depuration and repression in the first place.

Received: 09-04-2014