Sheffielders who fought in the Spanish Civil War

[neepsendlane]

Both fascism and communism were severe and heavily based on the hero worship of a dictator: Mussolini, Stalin, Tito, Franco, Mao, Hitler etc. (the last was not a fascist, despite this being often said.) Musso was the first European leader to recognise the Soviet Union in 1917 and as late as 1939 said that Stalin had 'modified' Bolshevism into Slavic fascism. Both ideologies were guilty of terror, and the Guiness Book of Records ( 'Human World' section) states that, during the war, Stalin told Churchill that he had 'liquidated' 12 million of his own people (one Allied leader admitting genocide to another ) and puts Mao's death list at some 30 million Hopefully such totalitarian sytems are in the dustbin of history, and let's not forget that some Democracies also have much to answer for.

Well this thread is about the Sheffielders who fought in the Spanish civil war on the side of the poor people .A war when the Fascists and the Catholic church were as one not for the first time.

Hitler not a fascist?

[rbbt]

Films:

Land and Fire directed by Ken Loach-recommended, as this is probably an example of how many British people were drawn into the war.

 

Language of the Butterflies, La Lengua de las marisposas - subtitled

 

and of course Pan's Labrynth -subtitled

 

 

Books:

 

Fiction but also factual

 

Winter in Madrid by CS Sansom - describes the terrible Battle of Jarama (where the above named Sheffielders lost their lives) and the inhuman conditions in the POW camps.

 

The Return by Victoria Hislop

 

Guernica by Dave Bolling

[neepsendlane]

Films:

Land and Fire directed by Ken Loach-recommended, as this is probably an example of how many British people were drawn into the war.

 

Language of the Butterflies, La Lengua de las marisposas - subtitled

 

and of course Pan's Labrynth -subtitled

 

 

Books:

 

Fiction but also factual

 

Winter in Madrid by CS Sansom - describes the terrible Battle of Jarama (where the above named Sheffielders lost their lives) and the inhuman conditions in the POW camps.

 

The Return by Victoria Hislop

 

Guernica by Dave Bolling

Thanks for that , Will keep a look out for those books.

My favourite is Laurie Lee's A moment of war,Abook that tells the story of a young Laurie crossing the Pyrenees on foot to join in this most noble war against Facism.

[neepsendlane]

Films:

Land and Fire directed by Ken Loach-recommended, as this is probably an example of how many British people were drawn into the war.

 

Language of the Butterflies, La Lengua de las marisposas - subtitled

 

and of course Pan's Labrynth -subtitled

 

 

Books:

 

Fiction but also factual

 

Winter in Madrid by CS Sansom - describes the terrible Battle of Jarama (where the above named Sheffielders lost their lives) and the inhuman conditions in the POW camps.

 

The Return by Victoria Hislop

 

Guernica by Dave Bolling

Thanks for that , Will keep a look out for those books.

My favourite is Laurie Lee's A moment of war,A book that tells the story of a young Laurie crossing the Pyrenees on foot to join in this most noble war against Facism.

Double clicked sorry.

[rbbt]

Do try to get Land and Fire on DVD, I got mine on loan from the Library.

 

It's in English and starts off with a girl in a block of flats in the UK going through her late Grandads things....the story unfolds from there.

 

I guess a story like the old Spanish guy mentioned earlier in this thread who washed vans at Fletchers Bakery. We are all guilty sometimes of just seeing and old man!

 

FYI

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8496318/Spain-publishes-map-with-over-2000-Franco-era-mass-graves.html

 

Government map of mass graves...CLICK MAPA DE FOSAS at the top of the page.

 

http://www.memoriahistorica.gob.es/