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The Spanish Inquisition is often cited in popular literature and history as an example of Catholic intolerance and repression. Various modern historians question earlier accounts and have noted that the scope and brutality of the Spanish Inquisition was probably exaggerated during the waves of anti-Catholicism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[2] Although records are incomplete, about 150,000 persons were charged with crimes by the Inquisition and it is believed 3,000–5,000 people were executed.