Concentrating on the fatalities of the war, this episode recounts how of the 500,000 people that died in the Spanish Civil War, half were killed not in battle but by murder, execution and massacre behind the lines of both sides. The right-wing Nationalist coup against the Democratic Republic provoked a violent reaction from the left, leaving the government caught in the middle: justice was the civil war's first victim.
This film was first broadcast: 14 Jan 1983
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