The Spanish Civil War is one of the most famous events of the 20th century yet it is also by far one of the most misunderstood. Most people know next to nothing about it and the little they do know is just propaganda bites from the time from the losing side whom had greater access to the world media. In this video I will be giving the complete story of the Spanish Civil War from its early origins all the way until its end so that the full picture can actually be grasped. Was it fascism against the democratically elected government or was it something else entirely? The truth is that the war and even the sides that took part are extremely complicated and only able to be explained at length. World War 2 is simple and easy to understand, the Spanish Civil War is not. I will attempt to change that.
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Sources:
Anthology of Speeches and Quotes – Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
Mine Were of Trouble – Peter Kemp
Spain 1808-1975 – Raymond Carr
Spain 1923-1948 Civil War and World War – Arthur F. Loveday
The Battle for Spain – Antony Beevor
The Spanish Civil war – Stanley G. Payne
Chapters:
Intro: 0:00
A Long Time Coming: 03:08
Sleepwalking Towards a Cliff: 10:02
State of The Nation, July 1936: 24:10
The Rising: 30:18
Revolution and Red Terror: 49:49
A Catholic Crusade: 1:02:01
Franco’s Nationalists: 1:10:31
Foreign Intervention: 1:15:51
Soviet Policy in Spain: 1:24:59
Battle For The North, 1937-38: 1:33:16
The War at Sea: 1:47:11
The War in The Air: 1:51:08
Infighting and Collapse: 1:57:00
Arriba Espana!: 2:03:03
37 Comments
Hey zoomer, can we get a video on Mosley and British fascism?
You should do a video about the lend-lease program. It is something people really need to hear.
this is modern America
Team Franco
Any hopes you plan to cover Japan and specific Unit 731? Love the channel keep it up.😊
How can you possibly claim that this is unbiased? Shocking lack of scholarship.
Viva la fai
You are really wrong about anything you talk about, you can really tell that you are too deep in some rabbit hole
A film needs to be made about this in the same way that the movie "Mr. Jones" was made about the Holdomor in the 1930s in the Ukraine
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fake historian
Proves that winners don’t write the history.
If you write the history, you win.
Thank you for this. I knew so little.
The same "historians" who write about the Spanish war against a Communist infestation,
also still claim FDR was a good president.
In fact, FDR was the most economically destructive president in history.
Whereas Marxist Obama, was the most socially destructive in history.
As one with an Econ background, I verify that every Economist agrees –
save self-proclaimed Marxist, Richard D. Wolff,
it was FDR's Leftist policies that turned a Recession, into the Great Depression, and kept it going as well.
Justice triumphed over subversion for once.
Let's GOOOOOOO!!!!!
A big mistake was to have allowed "nationalist" issues (Basque, Catalan) to be captured by the left. In Catalunia they are trying to eradicate Spanish (Castilian) culture and they do that by allowing in large numbers of Africans (mainly from the North but also sub-Saharians). You can now find halal butchers in remote mountain villages.
Apparently, the commies in academia are embarrassed about this one because I never heard about some war in Spain until my sophomore year of high school when we watched an educational soap opera in Spanish. The war was mentioned by characters with black-and-white footage of it too.
People should read Peter Kemp's book "Mine were of Trouble", the first volume in his "Ten years at War" trilogy. It details his experience as a British volunteer fighting for Franco. It gives a very first hand, boots on the ground detailed description of the war. That was how I knew how badly we have been lied to about the Spanish civil war.
Do me a favor, dismantle the garbage video by Mark Felton "The 'Good German' – Marlene Dietrich vs. The Nazis" because he's trying to make her out to be some hero and she was a subversive tool of globalism to undermine German society from within. We have MOUNTAINS of evidence that proves she was.
Great History, great coverage of the era. Today, I will not give a cm to the Socialist or Communist which is the same thing. Whatever they touch turns to crap destroying everything under the guise of equality, biggest farse in the universe. God help Spain, God save the king.
Why am I banned from your telegram chat ?
Satans tactics never change. From Sodom and Gomorrah to Weimar Republic, to modern day problems in traditionally, majority Christian nations.
The most bravest and powerful army on the nationalist side were the Franco's army of the Africa and they were Moroccan muslims not spanksh catholics.
The funniest thing about this channel is that all this dude does is debunk the propaganda narrative, and Leftists act like they're not still allowed to think that Germany is evil without the cartoon villain caricature.
HELLO I don't know if youll read this but im a huge fan and have watched and contimplated your videos can you pls recomnd some books so i can better understand the falaganist ideology
Hemos pasado🎉🎉🎉
Would you please consider doing a series on Muammar Gaddafi and the story of Libyan before, under and after Gaddafi?
Thank you.
The very best channel on YouTube bar none
You state early on in your video that one of the first acts of the new Republican government in 1931 was to rescind the 1492 Edict of Alhambra which expelled Spain's Jewish population, implying that there was some sort of sinister trade-off involved. This is simply not true: the Edict was in fact repealed only in 1968 by the Franco regime following the Second Vatican Council. Ever since Spanish troops in Morocco in 1859 met Sephardic Jews who still spoke Spanish there had been proposals to offer them Spanish nationality; but it was not until 1924 that Primo de Rivera actually passed a law to that effect. Very few ever actually took up the offer; but during WW2 Spanish diplomats in Budapest and Salonika were able to use it to save several thousand Jews from the gas chambers by granting them emergency Spanish citizenship: flatly against orders from Madrid, though Franco later tried to portray himself as a great humanitarian.
10:40 "For what does it profit a man, that he should gain the world and lose his eternal soul?"
The republic was declared by a plebiscite tho. Or more specifically, a local election so it was democratically elected.
1:24:28 it's not really strange when you consider the Jesuit oath is to play both sides and appear to be enemies when it reality, you're both working towards the same goals on opposite sides. . . hearing about this just arrouses my suspicions even more about Germany at the time and how authentic the right, actually was.
Something people do not understand is that the people who rose up were often in those positions meritoriously.
The Nationalists you say were actually called Nationals. The words are different, and therefore the meaning.
And light years away from National Socialists. Very, very little in common.
Glad to see this channel growing.
1:58:00 Is untrue. The anarchists in Ukraine, called the black army joined forces with the soviets in intermitent manner with expected results in the form of purges.