Spanish Civil War in pictures

[Ferran]

A picture of contrasts.



Madrid, November-December 1936

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Theobald

Tell us more please. Were the International Brigades "worst" than the local reds ? I am particularly interested in your reply since the International "Brigadists" were mostly French (25,000 out of 40,000 if I'm not mistaken).

I have translated a review of the book Las Brigadas Internacionales [...] by historian D. Ricardo de la Cierva, written by an enthusiastic reviewer.

I believe that it will serve you well for any purposes of debunking any accounts on the brigadists:

The International Brigades in Spain. The True Story

[Ferran]

Some fought just to destroy, no wonder why they lost the war


The ruins of the Alcázar de Toledo


Dining hall with children evacuated during war


Carlist Requetés receive the benediction before an assault on Irun


Bombing of Barcelona, March 17, 1938


The Tercio of Navarra entering Gijón


Riojan Requetés leaving Logroño


Tercio Ortiz de Zarate in Barakaldo (Oak of the flag)


Requetes inside a church


Tercios Requetes marching in Bilbao


Mass after the liberation


Mass of campaign




Young Requete of the Navarrese Brigades accompanies a wounded soldier


Popular joy with the advance of the Nationalist troops


Nationalist troops enter Santander on August 26, 1937


Nationalist aircraft in Madrid, late November 1936


PzKpfw I Aus. A of the Condor Legion in action


Squadron of junkers JU 87 Stuka in combat formation


Bombing of Bilbao as seen from the street


Parade of Catalan Requetés after paying tribute to the Holy Mother of Montserrat

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Ferran

Nationalist troops enter Santander on August 26, 1937

ROFL! Those are not the Nationals. Those are Italian Fascists volunteers from the CTV entering Santander. Great one!

The defense of Santander (Cantabria) had been left by the Republic to the Lehendakari (President of the Basque Government) Aguirre and the Euskadi Buru Batzar (Basque Government).

Even before the National troops were any near, Aguirre and the PNV (Basque Nationalist Party) were in talks with The Vatican and with Rome to save their arses. But they didn't move a finger when their allied Socialists and Anarchists slaughtered Catholic Basques who were not independentists. You will usually read "they couldn't help it".

The new created myth of the Gudari (Basque warrior) fell down into pieces when the Eusko Gudarostea (Basque army) surrendered without fight no less than... to the Italians!!!

They were a shame. The good Basques, the brave Basques were those fighting in the Tercios of the Requeté, with the National side, for God and for Spain.

[Ferran]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

ROFL! Those are not the Nationals. Those are Italian Fascists volunteers from the CTV entering Santander. Great one!

Oh well, it was not my intention to forget the valuable help of the Italian volunteers, what I did was quoting the description of the Wikipedia entry from which I took the picture. Most probably the one who wrote it focused more on the whole story of the battle of Santander itself and ignored that the people in that picture were indeed wearing uniforms of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie. Anyway, for accurateness sake, we could just substitute "Nationalist" for "Francoist" so everyone might be happy with it.