Carlos Berzosa on Franco's regime falling into oblivion

According to the Spanish academic Calos Berzosa, dean of Madrid's Complutense University (UCM), young people tend to be unaware of the cruel crimes committed under the Franco regime (1939-1975). "My experience as a professor has shown that students know more about Nazism, thanks to the cinema, or about what happened during the dictatorships in Chilli or Argentina, than about our own dictatorship and have no clear idea of the brutality of Franco's regime. ... I do not wish to judge those who are uninformed of this period, but rather to lament this situation. Nor do I wish to compare generations. We are going through different times that are related to distinct realities ... . But I nonetheless believe that it is necessary to adapt contemporary education in such a way that does not amputate or deform modern Spanish history."

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