Round table with
 Carlos Castresana (Spanish Supreme Court Prosecutor), Felipe González (Spanish prime minister between 1982-1996) and 
Emilio Silva (President of the Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory). Fernando Suárez (former Minister under Franco and member of the conservative Spanish People's Party) was also invited but refused to attend, arguing that he could not accept that the organizers considered that Franco came to power by a violent coup d'état.
The above mentioned guests discussed about the importance of the issue of dealing with the past for the national policy in Spain: How much of historic memory is necessary to build the present and the future in Spain? What kind of traces of Francoism are left in Spanish society? Can we still say that the Spanish process of democratization after Franco's death was exemplary?

The debate took place on October 28th 2012 in Berlin after the preview screening of the documentary "Franco's Settlers". The film portraits this unordinary small town as if we were looking through a magnifying glass, reviewing the Spanish history since Franco took power until 2010, when judge Baltasar Garzón, famous for having prosecuted Augusto Pinochet, was convicted by the Spanish Supreme Court and banned from office for 11 years because of his attempt to investigate the crimes committed during Franco´s dictatorship. "Franco’s Settlers" is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the heritage of their past.

The event was supported by The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, The Cervantes Institute and The German Association of Spanish Teachers.

LINKS
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/dvd/618-francos-settlers.html
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/dvd/619-franco-on-trial.html
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/books/617-francos-settlers-package.html