In 1939, thirteen young women were executed for their beliefs in Francoist Spain
During the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, thirteen young women known as 'The Thirteen Roses' were executed for their political activism, becoming enduring symbols of resistance against oppression.
In August 1939, just months after the Spanish Civil War ended, Francisco Franco's regime executed thirteen women, most under age twenty-one, against a cemetery wall in Madrid. Their crime was membership in a socialist youth group, but their trial was a sham intended to instill fear in the defeated Republican population.
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