 At that time the family was at their usual summer holiday location in San Sebastián; Luis Larramendi escaped to the Nationalist zone and returned few weeks later, when the Carlist Requeté seized the city.Ignacio continued his schooling in the Marianist Colegio de Santa María until obtaining bachillerato in 1937; he then enlisted to an auxiliary Requeté formation in Fuenterrabía, serving as a prison guard.In July 1938 together with his brother and with hesitant consent of their parents he was accepted at 2.