Los fusilamientos de Valdediós (Asturias, 1937)
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2026
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Luis Ángel Sánchez Gómez, “Los fusilamientos de Valdediós (Asturias, 1937)”, Hispania Nova, 24 (2026): 77 a 99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20318/hn.2026.8562
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En la madrugada del 27 de octubre de 1937, cuando la guerra ha concluido en Asturias con la victoria del bando golpista, miembros de un batallón del ejército franquista fusilan a once mujeres y seis hombres empleados en el hospital psiquiátrico republicano que, de forma provisional, se había instalado en el convento de Valdediós. La mayoría eran enfermeras que se habían trasladado con algunas decenas de pacientes desde el Hospital Psiquiátrico Provincial de Oviedo, evacuado un año antes. El artículo presenta las circunstancias en las que se desarrolla el crimen, documenta el arduo recorrido que permitió la excavación de la fosa y la recuperación e identificación de las víctimas y revisa los interrogantes y las conjeturas que existen sobre los responsables últimos de la matanza.
In the early morning of October 27, 1937, when the Spanish civil war had already concluded in Asturias with the victory of the coup side, members of a battalion of the Francoist army shot eleven women and six men employed in the Republican psychiatric hospital that had been temporarily installed in the convent of Valdediós. The majority were nurses who had moved with a few dozen patients from the Oviedo Provincial Psychiatric Hospital, that was evacuated a year earlier. The paper presents the circumstances in which the crime took place, documents the arduous journey that allowed the excavation of the grave and the recovery and identification of the victims, and reviews the questions and conjectures that exist about those ultimately responsible for the massacre.
In the early morning of October 27, 1937, when the Spanish civil war had already concluded in Asturias with the victory of the coup side, members of a battalion of the Francoist army shot eleven women and six men employed in the Republican psychiatric hospital that had been temporarily installed in the convent of Valdediós. The majority were nurses who had moved with a few dozen patients from the Oviedo Provincial Psychiatric Hospital, that was evacuated a year earlier. The paper presents the circumstances in which the crime took place, documents the arduous journey that allowed the excavation of the grave and the recovery and identification of the victims, and reviews the questions and conjectures that exist about those ultimately responsible for the massacre.













