[norton]

Won't comment on rape of nuns in convents - I've spent too much time analysing propaganda.
But the Stalinist support of the red wings (nationalists were Franco's faction) should not be denied.

[norton]

Forgot to mention:
Good article
a little biased on the side of 'the church' but a good review nonetheless.

Recommend any reading into the Knights Templar.
Not always nice but cannot object to their motivations.
Subject yet today of rumors and discredit.

[livius]

They were raped in their convents. And many of them were also killed in them, or dragged outside on the streets and killed. 13,000 priests, religious (monks and nuns) and lay leaders were killed by the Republicans/Communists during the Spanish civil war.

They also dragged the bodies of dead nuns and monks out of the crypts and tore them apart or burned them in the streets of Barcelona. There are pictures of this.