Architects Of Terror Paranoia Conspiracy And Anti Semitism In Francos Spain

Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : William Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008522155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architects of Terror written by Paul Preston and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution. It is the previously untold story of how antisemitic beliefs were weaponised to justify and propagate the Franco overthrow of liberal Spain. The Spanish military coup of 1936 was launched to overturn the social and economic reforms of the democratic Second Republic, and its educational and cultural challenges to the established order. The consequent civil war was fought in the interests of the landowners, industrialists, bankers, clerics and army officers whose privileges were threatened. However, a central justification for a war that took the lives of around 500,000 Spaniards was that it was being fought to combat an alleged scheme for world domination by a non-existent 'Jewish- Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy'. Despite the fact that Spain had only a tiny minority of Jews and Freemasons, Franco and his inner circle were ardent believers in this fabricated conspiracy and spread the notion that the survival of Catholic Spain, as well, of course, of the establishment ' s economic interests, required the total annihilation of Jews and Freemasons. Architects of Terror is the story of how fake news, mendacity, corruption and nostalgia for lost empire generated violence and hatred. The book presents vivid portraits of the key ideologues who propagated the myth of the Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy and of the military figures who implemented the atrocities that it justified. Among the convictions shared by these individuals was their belief in the idea that Freemasonry was responsible for Spain ' s loss of empire and in the factual veracity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the notorious fiction about the global domination of the Jews. This is a history that reverberates in our own political moment

Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : Debolsillo
ISBN 13 : 9788466360203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arquitectos del terror written by Paul Preston and published by Debolsillo. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nueva edición de este libro imprescindible para entender nuestra historia reciente . La Guerra Civil se libró para anular las reformas educativas y sociales de la Segunda República y para combatir su cuestionamiento del orden establecido. Los rebeldes lucharon a favor de los terratenientes, industriales, banqueros, clérigos y oficiales del Ejército, cuyos intereses se habían visto amenazados, y en contra de los liberales e izquierdistas que impulsaban las reformas. Sin embargo, en los años de república, de 1931 a 1936, a lo largo de la guerra y durante muchas décadas después, se siguió fomentando en España el mito de que el enemigo derrotado en la contienda era el contubernio judeomasónico y bolchevique. El presente libro no es una historia del contubernio, del antisemitismo ni de la antimasonería en España, sino que adopta la forma de pequeñas biografías de las principales figuras antisemitas y antimasónicas que propagaron ese mito, y de los personajes centrales que pusieron en práctica los horrores que este justificaba. Desmontar sus falsedades es uno de los objetivos fundamentales de esta obra. De Arquitectos del terror se ha dicho: «Imprescindible para el conocimiento objetivo de la reciente historia de España con la desmitificación de la conspiración judeomasónica con la que Franco nos agobió durante largos años». Luis María Anson, El Cultural De El holocausto español se ha dicho: «Debiera ser de lectura obligada no solo para los interesados por nuestro pasado sino, y sobre todo, para los educadores de las generaciones futuras». Ángel Viñas,Babelia, El País De La guerra civil española se ha dicho: «La mirada lúcida y certera de un maestro de historiadores sobre la mayor tragedia española del siglo XX». Enrique Moradiellos

Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007467222
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain written by Paul Preston and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.

Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : William Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780007558391
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A People Betrayed written by Paul Preston and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church.

Author : Michael D. Barr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735764
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruling Elite of Singapore written by Michael D. Barr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Barr explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in one of the world's most prosperous countries - the city-state of Singapore. He argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew - former prime minister and Singapore's 'founding father' - designed to empower himself and his family. Barr identifies the crucial institutions of power - including the country's sovereign wealth funds, and the government-linked companies - together with five critical features that form the key to understanding the nature of the networks. He provides an assessment of possible shifts of power within the elite in the wake of Lee Kuan Yew's son, Lee Hsien Loong, assuming power, and considers the possibility of a more fundamental democratic shift in Singapore's political system.

Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007591829
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Stalinist: The Life of Santiago Carrillo written by Paul Preston and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain’s turbulence in the 20th century.

Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008128359
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain written by Jeremy Paxman and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster ‘A rich social history ... Paxman’s book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously’ DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES ‘Vividly told ... Paxman’s fine narrative powers are at their best’ THE TIMES

Author : Christopher Hale
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752463934
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Foreign Executioners written by Christopher Hale and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals for the first time Heinrich Himmler's master plan for Europe: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of 'Germanic' peoples to build an 'SS Europa'. Himmler fervently believed that over many centuries, 'Germanic' blood had been 'seeded' in every corner of Europe and even parts of Asia. This book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europe's dirty secret: that nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich - to fight a crusade against 'Jewish-Bolshevism'. No other historian has examined the connections between these SS 'foreign legions' (both police and Waffen-SS) and the Holocaust. Even today, some apologists claim that the foreign volunteers were merely soldiers 'like any other' and fought a decent war against Stalin's Red Army. Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken. And as the Reich collapsed in 1944, Himmler's monstrous scheme would lead to bitter confrontations with Hitler - and the downfall of the man once known as 'loyal Heinrich'.

Author : Liam Cahill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781914225444
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Suir to Jarama written by Liam Cahill and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley G. Payne
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300122829
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Franco and Hitler written by Stanley G. Payne and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? How much did Spain assist Jewish refugees? This is the first book in any language to answer these intriguing questions. Stanley Payne, a leading historian of modern Spain, explores the full range of Franco’s relationship with Hitler, from 1936 to the fall of the Reich in 1945. But as Payne brilliantly shows, relations between these two dictators were not only a matter of realpolitik. These two titanic egos engaged in an extraordinary tragicomic drama often verging on the dark absurdity of a Beckett or Ionesco play. Whereas Payne investigates the evolving relationship of the two regimes up to the conclusion of World War II, his principal concern is the enigma of Spain’s unique position during the war, as a semi-fascist country struggling to maintain a tortured neutrality. Why Spain did not enter the war as a German ally, joining with Hitler to seize Gibraltar and close the Mediterranean to the British navy, is at the center of Payne’s narrative. Franco’s only personal meeting with Hitler, in 1940 to discuss precisely this, is recounted here in groundbreaking detail that also sheds significant new light on the Spanish government’s vacillating policy toward Jewish refugees, on the Holocaust, and on Spain’s German connection throughout the duration of the war.