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English: Spanish militia leader Buenaventura Durruti in Madrid?, 1936. Durruti, a railway mechanic, is best known for his involvement in the first stages of the Spanish Civil War. He distinguished as a leader of the first waves of anarchist militiamen who, in a desperate and uncontrolled attempt to halt the rebels, raised a column of anarchist militiamen and moved to Aragon (Northeastern Spain) from Barcelona. Soon after, on 20 November 1936, was shot in Madrid -which was under an intense siege- in dubious circumstances. Durruti's body was then transported to Barcelona, where around half million people accompanied the funeral procession. Rather than being remembered for his military feats, which were few due to his assassination in the first months of the war, he was remembered as a symbol of coordination within the early 20th century Spanish anarchist movement, nowadays still being frequently used as an idealized political symbol. Source: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, 3/1/0/17/6420