Andalusia was one of the worst affected regions of Spain by Francisco Franco 's brutal campaign of mass-murder and political suppression called the White Terror during and after the Spanish Civil War . The Nationalist rebels bombed and seized the working-class districts of the main Andalusian cities in the first days of the war , and afterwards went on to execute thousands of workers and militants of the leftist parties : in the city of Cordoba 4,000 ; in the city of Granada 5,000 ; in the city of Seville 3,028 ; and in the city of Huelva 2,000 killed and 2,500 disappeared . The city of Málaga , occupied by the Nationalists in February 1937 following the Battle of Málaga , experienced one of the harshest repressions following Francoist victory with an estimated total of 17,000 people summarily executed . Carlos Arias Navarro , then a young lawyer who as public prosecutor signed thousands of execution warrants in the trials set up by the triumphant rightists , became known as " The Butcher of Málaga " ( '' Carnicero de Málaga '' )
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