MARCH

March 28: Civil War in Spain ends

Madrid formally surrendered to General Francisco Franco. The collapse of all Loyalist resistance led to a series of tribunals that judged individual leaders of the former government and imposed harsh sentences, including many executions. In all, about 750,000 people were killed in the civil war. The Italians had as many as 75,000 “volunteers” involved on the Nationalist side. Germany provided 19,000 men.