In the news: Franco's PNV papers return to the Basque Country

Boxes of documents seized by dictatorship delivered back to region's culture department

U. M. / J. R. M. - Bilbao / Madrid - 16/06/2011

Fifteen boxes filled with archive material arrived on Tuesday at the department of culture of the Basque regional government, in Vitoria. The delivery was historically significant, because the boxes contained documents that were seized from the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) under Franco's dictatorship. Until Tuesday morning, those papers had been sitting inside the Documentary Center for Historical Memory, a state-run archive located in Salamanca.

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