When the contract for the IV Trench Plan was awarded to the archaeology companies Atics and Aranzadi, it was their representatives, Cesc Busquets and Almudena García, respectively, who proposed to historian Jaume Claret that he coordinate the twenty or so reports that the Government had commissioned on the democratic memory destroyed by Francoism. Thus, Claret took on a giant challenge and began to select the most suitable researchers for each study, “some were already given, because they were the people who had already been working on them and in other cases it was my job to think about who could do it best,” he points out. “I began to coordinate their preparation and ensure that all the works maintained the same scientific and formal criteria,” he adds.