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MADRID, Spain — Spain has started letting descendants of people who fled into exile after its 1936-39 civil war apply for Spanish citizenship.

The government says it believes up to 500,000 children and grandchildren of such émigrés are eligible. The government says 300,000 of those people live in Argentina.

The Spanish Cabinet approved the measure Friday under a law passed last year to pay restitution to victims of the war and the ensuing right-wing dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco.

Citizenship is being offered to descendants of people who fled because of political persecution or postwar economic hardship. Those who accept it will not have to renounce their current citizenship, the government said.

Last year's law, sponsored by the Socialist government, was highly divisive.

Opposition conservatives complained it reopened old wounds in a country that was left in ruins by the war, but which struggled to avoid recrimination in the interest of rebuilding.

An estimated 500,000 people died in the war, either in battle or from hunger or disease, and both sides committed atrocities. But these were covered under an amnesty passed in 1977 after democracy was restored, two years after Franco died.