Los fusilamientos de Valdediós (Asturias, 1937)

In the early morning of October 27, 1937, when the Spanish civil war had already concluded in Astu-rias 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 Hos-pital, 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 reco-very and identification of the victims, and reviews the questions and conjectures that exist about those ultimately responsible for the massacre.