Historical Memory

The government revokes the Grand Cross of Health from psychiatrist Vallejo-Nájera, who experimented with republican prisoners

A photograph of the psychiatrist Antonio Vallejo Nájera
12/07/2026
1 min

The Spanish government has posthumously revoked the Grand Cross of Health, awarded in 1947 to the psychiatrist Antonio Vallejo-Nájera Lobón, for having used medicine to justify persecution policies during the Franco dictatorship.

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