![]() ![]() Many conservatives, finding much to admire in Franco, have accused Preston of bias, and this latest work is unlikely to silence them. Although Preston describes many Republican atrocities, a relentless stream of gruesome trials, executions, and massacres presses his case that the Right committed the lion’s share. The Spanish Holocaust recounts the story of the deliberate murder of men, women and children during the Spanish Civil War which includes the approximately 200.000 extra-judiciously executed during the July 1936 coup, the 20. Jim Bjork and Kristina SpohrView all authors and affiliations. the machinery of state terror” in order to maintain power. Paul Prestons The Spanish Holocaust and Recent Historiography on the Spanish Second Republic. Francisco Franco, who, after taking power, “perfect. They supported the rising Falangist movement, which denounced the government in familiar fascist rhetoric. Industrialization and the rise of militant unions after WWI provoked conflicts that worsened after the passing of a reformist 1931 constitution, which outraged landowners, army officers, and the Catholic Church. Paul Preston provides an unforgettable account of the systematic terror carried out by Spains fascist government. ![]() Spain entered the 20th century impoverished and largely rural. Preston (The Spanish Civil War) provides more than enough illumination of this lesser-known holocaust in this thick, intensely detailed, indignant account. ![]() ![]() The murder of 200,000 Spaniards and the deaths of countless more from disease, slave labor, and the ravages of concentration camps was a deliberate plan by Franco’s troops to eliminate their opponents, says Preston, a leading scholar of 20th-century Spanish history at the London School of Economics. ![]()
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