HISTAGRA Conference: Origins of Franco's extermination: The rebel decision-making process in the summer of 1936. On Tuesday 6 June, Professor Ángel Alcalde will give a lecture entitled: Origins of Franco's extermination: The process of rebel decision-making in the summer of 1936. In it, he will present the advances of his most recent research on Franco's violence during the civil war. His talk will focus on the hypothesis that the violence and combat experiences of the war were the fundamental ideological crucible of the Franco regime. The rebels were a group of reactionary and illiberal forces with little ideological or political coherence, but they emerged from the conflict not only victorious but ideologically united under the dictator's power. Key to understanding this transi...