The execution of Lorca: “the worst bourgeoisie of Spain”

The execution of Lorca: “the worst bourgeoisie of Spain”

On the morning of August 18, 1936, the news of Lorca’s execution is traveling fast around Granada. The news, not the rumor. Regarding this we have already seen the testimony Juan Luis Trescastro himself, repeated over and over by those who heard it. The conclusive proof of the date arrived in 2005, with the publication of Manuel Titos Martínez’ book, Verano del 36 en Granada, which contains a most valuable testimony about the event casually found in the archive of the Rodríguez-Acosta family, the celebrated bankers. It turns out that the administrator of the family business, José María Bérriz Madrigal, was informing two family members who were spending their vacation in Estoril (the brothers Miguel and the well known painter José María Rodríguez-Acosta González de la Cámara), of the course of events in Granada when the uprising broke out. On August 18 he tells them that their other brother, Manuel, and his own brother, Bernabé Bérriz, both enrolled in the “Spanish Patriots” militia, have just arrived at the house – it must have been around two in the afternoon – and “they tell me that the Falange killed Federico García Lorca last night”.