In the words of those responsible for the Club, the work to sign and obtain this agreement has been «long and hard, since it has taken more than three years to complete, as it is a complicated bureaucratic process”. Among the files affected are those of the “disciplinary battalions of working soldiers» and the “disciplinary battalions of convicted working soldiers, 1st and 2nd group”. The signing of this agreement will allow the initial digitisation of 1,233 files and will extend to other documents of the same collections until completing the list of the Archivo General Militar of Guadalajara. These documents are crucial for the reconstruction and understanding of the Francoist repression in the Valencian region. It is an achievement that helps to promote historical research and acknowledges the memory of the repression victims.    

This extends and goes more deeply into what the Diputació de València publicized a few days ago, when the names of the files were released. This list was drawn up with the help of the AHMD researchers from the 2017 grant “Subvención de proyectos e iniciativas en material de recuperación de memoria histórica” (“Subsidy for projects and initiatives in the field of historical memory recovery”), from the Justice, Public Administration, Democratic Reforms and Public Freedoms Department of the Generalitat Valenciana. The recent press release of the Diputació left this detail out, which has already been corrected by the same institution. They have emphasized that “the role of the Club was crucial in the development of this project from the very beginning”. In this way the Diputació de València recognises the work developed and promoted by the AHMD from the start and acknowledges a mistake that gave them unmerited prominence.

The signing of this agreement consolidates the actions carried out by the Club, created in 2016, and whose founding goals include addressing specific problems related to fundamental research and documents from the Second Republic, Civil War, Francoism and the Democratic Transition in the País Valencià.