It contains funds from the Documentary Services of the Presidency of the Government and the Special Court for the Suppression of Freemasonry and Communism of the Franco era, and those incorporated after 1979.
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National Delegation of Documentary Services of the Presidency of the Government. It provided government departments, upon request, with background information on natural and legal persons, especially the General Directorate of Security, which, in order to issue the National Identity Document, should request reports from them.
- Special Section. It groups together the documents that were formed relating to Freemasonry and other movements and associations that we can unify under the characteristic of being considered dissidents of the official ideology of Franco’s regime.
- Social Policy Section. Formed by documents of all kinds of institutions, associations and people who fought for the republican cause, with which various documentary groups or "series" were formed, for whose identification the place where the seizure was made in some cases and the matter in others were used.
- General Secretariat
Special Tribunal for the Suppression of Masonry and Communism
Special Court of Political and Social Affairs of the Post
Built-in funds
- Private Archives (among others, Ateneo Español de Mexico, Spanish Federation of Deported and Political Interned Victims of Franco’s Regime, Juan Negrín, Radio España Independiente)
- War Audit of the Occupying Army. Information Service. It was an organization created during the Spanish Civil War by the uprising side as an instrument of control of the territories won to the enemy. After the occupation of a locality or territory the Audit was established in it to carry out an investigation aimed at identifying the military, politicians and activists of the Republican side and to find out their actions in the period before the conquest. To that end, it had an Information Service responsible for collecting data, which it then provided to the military courts and other authorities upon request. The fund consists of a Crime File and the Crime Index, composed of the files of the people investigated organized by localities and provinces, while the index shows a list of names sorted alphabetically that refers to the files.
- Battalions of workers and concentration camps
- Collections
- Security and Assault Corps of Madrid. 9th Uniformed Group
- Informal Delegation of the National Government of Spain in London (United Kingdom). Formed by telegrams sent from the Headquarters of the Generalissimo to the Duke of Alba, Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James Falcó, Head of the Informal Delegation of the National Government of Spain in London. by the Ambassador of London, the Duke of Alba. It was sent to the National Historical Archive in May 2006 and sent to the Documentary Center of Historical Memory in February 2009.
- People's Army of the Republic. 35th Division
- People's Army of the Republic. 42nd Joint Brigade
- File of prisoners of the Central Patronage of Our Lady of Mercy for the Redemption of Penalties for Work
- Prosecutor of the Supreme Court. General Cause
- Oral sources (among others, Oral Archive of Socialist Unionism, Sound Archive of the Communist Party, Association of Descendants of Spanish Exile, Seminar of Oral Sources of the Complutense University of Madrid)
- Military Government of Cáceres
- Local People’s Courts of Barcelona
- Applications for residence permits of Spanish emigrants
League of Mutilated, Invalids and Widows of the Spanish War in France
Special Jurisdiction of Public Order (Summaries of the Court of Public Order)
Special Jurisdiction of Political Responsibilities (Regional Court of Political Responsibilities of Madrid)
Databases
Basic control and dissemination tool for the knowledge of the archives by the Administration, citizens and users. Provides information on the Archives, defined as the institution or administrative unit responsible for the custody and service of the documentation; the Documentary Collections/Funds that custody that archive; and an Authority File.
Census guide of Archives of Spain and Ibero-America
Online guide to public and private archives, collections and collections in Spain and Latin America.
It collects bibliographic descriptions of the funds of the specialized libraries of the State Archives and the Documentary Archives Information Center.
Spanish deported to Nazi concentration camps
It brings together the contents of the publication Libro Memorial. Spanish deported to the Nazi camps (1940-1945),edited by the Ministry of Culture in 2006, the result of an investigation by Benito Bermejo and Sandra Checa. Some errors or omissions present in the printed version have been corrected.
Guide to documentary sources of archives relating to the Spanish Civil War
Thematic database of documents from public and private archives in Spain and from European and Ibero-American countries. It offers 48,422 records.
Military and law enforcement personnel serving the Second Republic (1936-1939)
It includes the changes in the status and promotion of all military personnel in the service of the Republic that were published in the various official newspapers: Official Gazette of the Republic; Official Gazette of the Ministry of Defence; Official Gazette of the Government of Catalonia; Official Gazette of the Carabineros Institute and the Official Gazette of the Ministry of Marine and Air.
Dead and Missing from the Republic Land Army (1936-1939)
Information on the persons who caused the right to receive a pension due to death, disappearance or uselessness during the Civil War in the Spanish Army.
Database containing descriptive sheets and digitized images of documents preserved in the State Archives.
Portal of Victims of the Civil War and Reprisals of the Franco regime
It facilitates access to documents relating to the victims of the Civil War, exile and its consequences and repression during the Franco dictatorship.
Contact Address
Calle Gibraltar, 2
37008 Salamanca
Phone number: +34 92 321 28 45
Email address: cdmh@cultura.gob.es
Web link
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