As a whole, these leading perpetrators conform to the same profile: military figures who cut their teeth in the colonial campaigns of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who were affected by the promotions granted illegally during Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship and repealed during the Second Republic and—above and beyond an ideology rooted in law and order, the unity of the nation and the total absence of public power—were driven by a thirst for power. Part of this research presents representations of Francoist power through portraits of those ultimately responsible for repression.

Armed with this list of names as a guide, the project set out to locate and identify the leading perpetrators’ official residences and build up a photographic picture of this “world of the victors”. The key documents that led to these properties were their death certificates, which included the deceased’s last known place of residence.