The Spanish Government is ‘considering’ a request to declassify around 10,000 documents relating to the Civil War and post-war period (1936-1968) which are no longer considered a threat to national security and which would shed light on the creation of concentration camps and ‘labour battalions’.
The papers also cover the political policy in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, details of Spanish, Italian and German ships in Spanish ports during World War II, the organisation of military units during the Civil war and operations in Sidi Ifni.
Historians have long wanted a change to the Official Secrets Act to allow documents to be studied but an amendment to the law is not one of the current governmen’s priorities.