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Franco’s psychiatrist searched for a “red gene”
Political opposition theorized as psychobiological inferiority; women prisoners of Málaga studied; linked to removal of children
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Account 1
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 2
- Country / period
- Spain, 1938–39 and after
- Mechanism
- Military psychiatric studies of Republican prisoners (Vallejo-Nágera, "Psiquismo del fanatismo marxista")
- What is documented
- Political opposition theorized as psychobiological inferiority; women prisoners of Málaga studied; linked to removal of children
- Finding or status
- Scholarly consensus (Vinyes, Bandrés & Llavona); Spanish-language sources to be opened
- Contrary evidence / limits
- Not detention by diagnosis; diagnosis legitimizing repression already under way
- Label
- LEAD
Account 2
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 3
- Country / period
- Spain, Aug 1938–Oct 1939
- Mechanism
- Military psychiatric research on prisoners
- What is documented
- Franco's telegram of 23 Aug 1938 authorized Vallejo-Nágera's Gabinete de Investigaciones Psicológicas; studies on International Brigade prisoners and 50 Republican women in Málaga prison, published in Revista Española de Medicina y Cirugía de Guerra (1938–39), framed Marxism as biopsychic inferiority and women's activism as cruelty; theory invoked for the separation of children of "red" mothers (Garzón's 2008 auto estimated \~30,000)
- Finding or status
- Scholarly and official-memory sources (Junta de Andalucía, Lugar de Memoria: Cárcel de Mujeres de Málaga; Público; eHumanista/IVITRA 23; Univ. de Jaén)
- Limits
- Diagnosis legitimized repression already under way; no confinement by diagnosis
- Label
- VERIFIED (local-language)
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1938-ES-VALLEJO-NAGERA