Comparisons of Trump to Hitler have become common. But some of Trump’s policies may more closely resemble those of Francisco Franco of Spain, says a Spanish scholar.
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Women were often jailed for their association with anti-Franco male relatives. Behind bars, they suffered mental and physical torture.
A historian of the Mauthausen concentration camp says US troops and the Spanish antifascists they freed were united in a common fight against authoritarianism.
Western Sahara remains largely under occupation and without any kind of international human rights monitoring.
Spain has long avoided addressing the fact that tens of thousands of Spaniards were victims of Nazis, who collaborated with Spain’s former dictator, Francisco Franco.
Why social work needs a global truth and reconciliation commission.
New prime minister Pedro Sánchez wants to move the remains from a national memorial site. But not everyone agrees.
Soon after the death of Franco, Spain began an experiment with censorship that brought graphic sex and nudity to mainstream cinemas.
Want to understand the Catalan election? You need to go back a long way.
Why did the Spanish state forcefully quash Catalonia’s referendum for independence? It is rooted in the country’s nearly 40-year dictatorship and its transition to democracy.
For many contemporary observers, the Spanish Civil War was seen as very much of a piece with the war against Hitler and Mussolini. But then things changed. Why?
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Spanish, Amherst College
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Full Professor in Global Political Economy, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Spanish, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Vice-President, Board of Governors, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, New York University
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PhD candidate, College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter
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Professor of Social Work, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies
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Early Career Researcher in Spanish Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of Spanish, Kennesaw State University