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The epic story of the tens of thousands of communists exiled from Spain after Franco's victory. This first scholarly study of their experiences is based on unparalleled access to archives, many previously unexplored, as well as interviews with survivors.

This important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible in Nazi Germany. An outstanding contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.

Examining Franco's relations with Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, this book makes use of two major sources: the German Admiralty's archives, stunning in their evidence of Franco's support; and the Spanish press, operating under a totalitarian regime and yearning for an Axis victory to the bitter end.

This remarkable book is the product of a conference held in Paris in September 1989 in which, for the very first time, Western, Soviet and Japanese historians joined in a scientific debate on all the most controversial aspects of how the Second World War came into being. Every one of the contributors is a star in his field. Soviet scholars are confronted by Russians who fled into exile. The book reveals the circumstances and the repercussions of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, examines the fate of Poland, and then shows how a number of relatively local struggles in Europe and the Far East coalesce in the course of two years to produce a global conflict.

El presente libro describe la experiencia del gran contingente español confinado en uno de los más terribles campos de concentración nazis, el complejo de Mauthausen. Entre los cientos de miles de prisioneros enviados a este campo, los siete mil españoles que llegaron allí eran republicanos refugiados en Francia que habían luchado en la Guerra Civil y que, tras la invasión nazi, fueron arrestados por las tropas alemanas. Su historia sirve en parte para presentarnos un microcosmos de la experiencia colectiva, pero es al mismo tiempo una experiencia única. Esta cuarta edición ha sido revisada por el autor y ampliada con dos anexos: una lista de los españoles de Mauthausen fallecidos por causas no naturales y una extensa coda que incorpora sus avances en la investigación durante los últimos diez años. Opinión: «Con este solo libro se aprende más que comprendiendo la mayoría de los libros que hay en el mercado.» Gabriel Jackson

Este libro es parte de la colección e-Libro en BiblioBoard.

In late 1936, as Franco’s armies stormed toward Madrid, Stalin famously termed the defence of Spain “the common cause of all advanced and progressive mankind.” As a German emigrant to Winnipeg, Hans Ibing recognized the importance of the Spanish Civil War to the struggle against worldwide fascism in a way that most people in Canada did not—joining the International Brigades in their fight to defend the Spanish Republic was his “chance to fight Hitler.” Drawing on interviews, Ibing’s personal papers, and archival material, David Goutor recounts the powerful story of an ordinary man’s response to extraordinary times.

Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. This study tells the story of the experts in public health, medicine, and social insurance sent to sell Franco's regime overseas.