THE SPANISH HOLOCAUST Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain By Paul Preston Illustrated. 700 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $35. In ''Homage to Catalonia,'' his memoir of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell remarks that Francisco Franco's military uprising against Spain's elected government ''was an attempt not so much to impose...
The enemies of Judge Baltasar Garzón have finally gotten their way. Spain's Supreme Court this week found the judge guilty of misapplying the country's wiretap law and suspended him from the courts for 11 years. Judge Garzón has played an important role in Spain's transition to democracy, as a scourge of corrupt politicians left and right and a...
Terrible crimes were committed during and after Spain's 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain's top investigating magistrates, Baltasar Garzón, is on trial for daring to open an inquiry into those atrocities. Spain is now a vibrant...
Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo bedre kendt som generalísimo Francisco Franco (4. december 1892 - 20. november 1975) var diktator i Spanien 1939-1975 og leder for den spanske fascistisk inspirerede milits Falangen, der tilkæmpede sig magten i den spanske borgerkrig (1936-1939). Francisco Franco beholdt magten til sin død i 1975.
Hans politik og ideologi var yderst konservativ og katolsk: han støttede familien, streng moral og en stabil udenrigspolitik. Han øgede antallet af arbejdspladser.
Spanien samarbejdede med det fascistiske Italien og Nazi-tyskland, men han var neutral under 2. verdenskrig til Hitlers store irritation.
Hitlers Tyskland og Mussolinis Italien støttede ham under den spanske borgerkrig mod kommunisterne. De afprøvede nye våben og taktikker. Fold ud