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Jun 8, 2017 · Fueled by a frenzied hate between opposite political spheres, the civil war was filled with torture, executions and all sorts of ugly atrocities on both sides of the conflict. For those who have not studied the Spanish Civil War, here is a brief description of the sides involved in the conflict.
about the mass murders, massacres and atrocities committed by both sides in the course of the Spanish Civil War, and the vengeful and murderous repression unleashed on the activists and supporters of the losing side by the regime estab-lished by the victor in the conflict, General Francisco Franco. As Preston explains
The anticlerical violence of the Spanish Civil War has received significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, there has been relatively little focus on the iconoclasm, even though the destruction of objects was easily the most common form of anticlerical violence.
- Mary Vincent
- 2020
This chapter discusses the ruthless elimination of the so-called ‘fifth column’ in Republican Madrid during the first months of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Republican terror is often dismissed as the work of anarchist or criminal ‘uncontrollables’.
Paul Preston’s lifelong research into the causes, course and legacy of the Spanish Civil War has exposed atrocities and helped commemorate and compensate victims.
Academic and local stories of atrocities in the Spanish Civil War provide a good illustration. In 1936, a rightist military rebel-lion against the Popular Front government of the Second Repub-lic set off a leftist social revolution. In the classical pattern of Spanish insurrection, both military rebellion and social revolution
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Aug 3, 2020 · It is surprising that the latest studies on the issue at the European level (Robert Gerwarth, John Horne, Chris Millington and Kevin Passmore) do not include any essays on the enormous incidence of paramilitary violence in Spain before, during and after the civil war.
