White Terror (Spain)
In the history of Spain, the White Terror (; also known as the Francoist Repression, "la Represión franquista") describes the political repression, including executions and rapes, which were carried out by the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), as well as during the first nine years of the regime of General Francisco Franco. In the 1936–1945 period, Francoist Spain had many official enemies: Loyalists to the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939), Liberals, socialists of different stripes, Protestants, atheists, intellectuals, homosexuals, Freemasons, Jews, Romanis, Basque, Catalan, Andalusian and Galician nationalists.