Franco

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/24/19
  

  Franco’s Remains Are Exhumed and Reburied After Bitter Battle

  The removal of the dictator’s remains from a basilica near Madrid, weeks before a national election in Spain, was denounced by some for stirring painful memories.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/24/19
  

  Spanish Court Approves Franco’s Exhumation

  The decision follows a yearlong judicial battle between the caretaker Socialist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the family of Franco, who sought to block the exhumation.

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• 4-30-17
  

  The Awful Relevance of Photographs from Franco’s Fascist Takeover in the 1930s

  by Marc Aronson

  Two writers doing a book about the photographs couldn’t help but think about events today.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-6-14
  

  Facing His Torturer as Spain Confronts Its Past

  José María Galante says he was tortured by an infamous enforcer of the Franco dictatorship in the 1970s and is seeking to prosecute the man in an Argentine court.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  5-23-13
  

  UK bribed Spain to stay out of WWII

  Britain paid millions of pounds to military and political leaders in Spain to ensure they remained neutral during the Second World War, secret files reveal.Some $10 million was paid to one double agent alone to distribute to key individuals, including General Franco’s brother Nicholas, in the hope they would not enter the conflict.But despite the money, intelligence officers later suspected General Franco of ordering his officials to pass on secrets to the Germans.The effective bribes also sparked a row with the US after the Americans froze the money planned for Britain’s “friends in Spain”.The $10 million were to be paid to Juan March, a contact who had served as a double agent for Britain during the First World War, according to the intelligence papers released by the National Archives....