Peace Academy employee Jana Hornberger was interviewed by the Spanish daily newspaper El País about the bizarre culture of remembrance at the grave of the dictator Franco and the founder of the fascist movement Primo de Rivera: "There must be a comprehensive process of reflection in society about such a place of perpetrators."

On Saturday, 29.06.2019, the Spanish daily newspaper El País accompanied international memory studies experts on an excursion to the Valley of the Fallen (Valle de los Caídos). On the same day, a wedding ceremony was held in the Catholic church of the bizarre monument. This is where the graves of the dictator Francisco Franco and the founder of the Spanish Francoist movement, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, are located. It is difficult to comprehend that fresh flowers lie on the dictator's grave every day and that people say "I do" there. There are currently serious discussions about reburying the graves of the two men and exhuming the previously nameless fallen of the Spanish Civil War, as well as giving the site a new meaning as a place of remembrance. Jana Hornberger, research assistant at the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, was interviewed by El País about this: She says she doesn't quite understand how such a place of perpetrators is accepted so unquestioningly in Spain and believes that the efforts to initiate a process of reflection within society about it are important.

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Peace Academy employee Jana Hornberger was interviewed by the Spanish daily newspaper El País about the bizarre culture of remembrance at the grave of the dictator Franco and the founder of the fascist movement Primo de Rivera: "There must be a comprehensive process of reflection in society about such a place of perpetrators."

On Saturday, 29.06.2019, the Spanish daily newspaper El País accompanied international memory studies experts on an excursion to the Valley of the Fallen (Valle de los Caídos). On the same day, a wedding ceremony was held in the Catholic church of the bizarre monument. This is where the graves of the dictator Francisco Franco and the founder of the Spanish Francoist movement, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, are located. It is difficult to comprehend that fresh flowers lie on the dictator's grave every day and that people say "I do" there. There are currently serious discussions about reburying the graves of the two men and exhuming the previously nameless fallen of the Spanish Civil War, as well as giving the site a new meaning as a place of remembrance. Jana Hornberger, research assistant at the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, was interviewed by El País about this: She says she doesn't quite understand how such a place of perpetrators is accepted so unquestioningly in Spain and believes that the efforts to initiate a process of reflection within society about it are important.

Click here for the full article (in Spanish).