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In Spain, a coalition of the People's
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Front won the elections in February
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1936.
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Since then, tensions have been
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escalating between two Spain,
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one rural nationalist and Catholic,
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the other urban, republican
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and secular.
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Violence is multiplying.
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The army, which fears a revolutionary
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process, does not hide its intention
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to overthrow the legal
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government.
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On July 18, 1936, a crowd of people
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marched out into the streets
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of Madrid.
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The capital’s residents have
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just learned that the day
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before, in Spanish Morocco,
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officers of the Foreign Legion
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rose up against the government
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of the Republic.
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A real popular insurrection
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responds to the force strikes
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of the rebel troops.
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Despite the hesitation
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of the legitimate government, overtaken
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by events, weapons are distributed.
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60,000 rifles are delivered to
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the unions, the Socialist GT and the
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anarchist CNT, which calls for a
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general strike.
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The military coup has been prepared
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for several weeks at the initiative
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of a cartel of officers under
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the authority of General Franco,
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who announced to the world his
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intention to overthrow the government,
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coming from the polls.
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The mutins have the powerful
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army of Africa, the spark
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of the Spanish army.
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About 40,000 men, trained and endoctrinated,
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ready to sacrifice at the
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cry of “Viva la Mort.”
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The passage of insurgent troops to
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Morocco, through the Strait of Gibraltar,
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is blocked by sailors, who
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remained loyal to the Republic.
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They disarm officers and take
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control of the ships.
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In the following days, in all
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of Spain, felon regiments
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revolted in turn.
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Leftist activists and trade unionists
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are confronting them with a
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weapon of fortune.
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In Madrid, insurgent Franco troops
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have retreated to the Montaña
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barracks, which are attacked with
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unconscious bravery by improvised
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fighters.
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The barracks fall defenders are
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massacred Madrid remains in the
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Republican camp in Barcelona anarchist
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bastion the militias loyal to
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the government oppose the rebel
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troops cut off in the buildings
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of the center and the barracks
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the epic and deadly battles
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make hundreds of deaths the
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pronunciamiento fails but
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is not traced in the egg.
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On the evening of July 20, a third
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of Spain was under the rule
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of the Francoists.
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The War of Spain begins.
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On July 20, just three days
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after the coup, André Malraux
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arrived in Spain.
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A country where people take death seriously.
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This is a theatre to the scale of
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the anti-fascist writer who has been
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beating them since Hitler came to power.
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With his fist up and his brotherly
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salute in his mouth, Malraux travels
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through Madrid in the insurrection.
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On July 27, he met with the
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President of the Republic,
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Manuel Assanya.
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The writer notes that the
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weakness of Republican
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defense is the absence of aviation.
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Malraux returns to Paris, convinced
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that the fate of the Spanish
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Republic will be played in the air.
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The military seizure hastened the
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revolution that the rebel generals
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wanted to prevent.
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The state disintegrates in a few days.
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The power belongs to those who exercise it.
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The popular uprising gave rise
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to local gobiernitos, committees
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of different styles and sizes.
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There are hundreds of autonomous
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republics, small or large, that
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make the absence of order reign.
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In Catalonia, the CNT, an anarchist
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union that soon has 1.5 million
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members, creates revolutionary
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committees.
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In Barcelona, a central militia committee
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controls the city.
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All workers’ organisations are
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represented.
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The leader of the Popular Front,
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Largo Caballero, is the spokesman
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for the left wing of the
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Spanish socialism.
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He is called the second Lenin.
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But the authority of the Republican
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government does not extend
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far beyond Madrid, and yet.
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The capital offers the appearance
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of a revolutionary city
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where men in arms patrol.
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The government is unable
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to ensure public security.
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In every corner of the street,
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police check the documents.
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In an absolute disorder, propitious
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to all excesses, a period of
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red terror begins.
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Anti-religious violence is multiplying
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in the territory that remained
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faithful to the Republic.
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Hundreds of monastery churches
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were burned.
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The execution of clergy
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members continued for many
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months.
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In total, 7,000 priests were slaughtered.
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Thro the country, red terror
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has caused the death of several
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tens of thousands of people,
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bourgeois, civil guards,
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monarchists, religious, landlords.
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Revolutionary passion leads
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to countless abuses that
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leaders cannot contain.
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Federica Montseni, anarchist
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leader, observed: “The
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Revolution is destructive,
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blind, wild and grandiose.
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From the depths of the honest man
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arise fierce violence, destructive
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impulses, a thirst for blood
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that seemed unthinkable.
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The goal is revolution, and
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war comes after.
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Farmers occupy large fields,
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but also small and
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medium-sized farms.
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In the countryside, thousands of
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properties are collectivized.
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A spontaneous movement of occupation
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of factories spreads like a dust-
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trail.
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18,000 industrial and commercial
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companies are taken over
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by factory committees.
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In Madrid, unions have taken over
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the escapes of barbers, barbers,
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ebanists and even beauty
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institutes.
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Barcelona offers the extraordinary
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spectacle of a city where the great
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theatre of the Revolution plays.
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Anarchists collectivize everything,
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including grocery stores, fruit
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and vegetable markets and slaughterhouses.
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Local committees organize basic
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services, supply,
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and recruit hotels to make
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them hospitals or cantonnements
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for the militias.
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In Barcelona, the RIT was used
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as a public dining room where poor
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families accessed for the first time.
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Banks are robbed and looted,
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dozens of newspapers, sheets
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of lazy propaganda.
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The Spanish Revolution of the summer
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of 36 is of unparalleled scale in Europe.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the special
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envoy of the Intransigent, is
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a writer.
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“I sometimes encountered barricades
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of armed militias.
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Often enough to make
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them smile.
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I didn’t find the border at the beginning.
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The border, in civil war,
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is invisible and passes through
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the heart of man.
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The cities are changing.
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Enthusiasm, joy transfigure
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faces and attitudes.
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In the coffee shops, the waiters
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refuse to serve the snacks.
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Everyone is ticking, calling himself
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comrade, shaking his fist and saying
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“hello.”
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There reigns a contagious drunkenness, a thirst for
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sacrifice, an uncompromising belief in freedom
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in the first days of August arrives in Barcelona
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German Jewish guerta poiril and Hungarian Jewish
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and anti-fascist and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and
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On these days of August, all the
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men of Barcelona are set
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out to fight on the Aragonese front.
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Columns of picturesque
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attachments will fight against
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it with contagious enthusiasm.
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Robert Capa and Gerda Taro are
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the leaders.
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They are in the front lines on the
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Aragonese front.
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The militias take positions,
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settle, dig trunks.
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The war will last.
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Two Spanish women are facing
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each other in a merciless
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confrontation.
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From the beginning, Franco received
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massive, decisive assistance
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from Hitler and Mussolini.
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The German Junkers were transporting
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the Spanish army of crafts
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from Morocco to
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southern Spain in late
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July.
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In this first airbridge in
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history, 20,000 men were transported
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in a week.
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Mussolini sent out well-equipped
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and vigorous troops.
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Over the entire war, 70,000
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Italians fought in Spain.
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Foreign intervention imbalances
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the ratio of force in favor
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of the mutants.
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In the southern part of Spain, the nationalists
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are going to start the reconquest.
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Five columns make a quick
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march across Andalusia
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and along the Portuguese
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border.
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The army of Africa, made up
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of legionaries and dead, provokes
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terror on its passage by committing
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executions and massacres
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in an affirmed will
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of political purification.
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A Francoist general gave instructions
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to eliminate the left-wing
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elements, communists, anarchists,
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members of trade unions,
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Freemasonry.
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In Córdoba, thousands of men are
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parked in the arenas before being
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executed.
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In Badajoz, on the Portuguese
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border, nationalist soldiers
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massacre 4,000 men, women,
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and children.
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Prisoners are systematically
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executed.
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Organized and planned white
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terror is blamed
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by the Catholic hierarchy.
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The Franco repression will make
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at least 200,000 lives.
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It remains that terrible misfortune,
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writes François Moriac, that for millions
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of Spaniards Christianity
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and fascism are now confused
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and that they will no longer be
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able to hate one without hating
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the other.
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Robert Capa and Garda Taro,
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cameras in bandolero, left
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the Aragonese front for the
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Cordoba front.
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They arrive on September 5, near the
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town where the inhabitants are fleeing.
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Capa wins the battlefield, near
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the village of Cerro Muriano,
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facing a hill held by the Francoists.
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Republican militias are preparing
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for the assault.
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Capa, in the trunk, blows his
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Leica over his head and presses
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the trigger, without looking.
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The photo of a Republican
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fighter crushed by death appears
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in sight, then goes around the
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world.
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Decades later, the circumstances
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of this instantaneous will
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be disputed.
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In four weeks, the
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insurgent troops advanced
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500 km.
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Madrid is only 70 km away.
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But Franco orders his men to
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rescue Toled, where the cadets
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of the military academy
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and their families have been
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cut into the Alcazard.
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The Republicans have been in charge
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of them for several weeks.
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There is no plan for battle
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or attack.
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The gunfire, from the barricades,
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is more of a folklore
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than of a fight.
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Nothing shakes the determination
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of the assembled who become a symbol
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for the Franco camp.
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The government’s downturn
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has worsened
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the situation.
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The Soco Square of Auvers becomes
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the meeting place for international
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press and photographers.
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Take a break before the goals.
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Finally, Asturien miners
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are brought to dig galleries
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to place 5 tons of
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dynamite.
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The giant explosion does not result
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in redemption.
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Soldiers sent by Franco released
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the cadets and massacred hundreds
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of Republican prisoners.
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Franco can come to parade on the
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ruins and benefit from this victorious
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resistance.
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The siege of Toled pathetically
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illustrates the military improvisation
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of the Republican camp.
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A military of professionals
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confronts amateurs who have only
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their brave ones in jumping.
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A word of order reigns as a master
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in the liberals’ ranks.
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We are going to disregard the indiscipline.
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Grised by revolutionary
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enthusiasm, Republican fighters
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repudiate military
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discipline.
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Military Yes, Military No
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They refuse traditional management.
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Most of the time, they received
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no military training.
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They know how to fight, they don’
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t know how to fight.
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Column leaders are militants
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who lack the knowledge of armed
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struggle.
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Each party or movement creates its
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own militia.
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There is no coordination between them.
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The party pride is stronger than
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the common defense.
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There is no command unit.
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The POUM, the anti-Stalinist revolutionary
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party, has its own militia,
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made up of 80 percent
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German anti-fascists.
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The next one is Chancellor Willy
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Brandt.
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The English writer George Orwell,
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in the head of the ranks, also
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engaged in the Poum
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militias.
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In Catalonia, the Liberalists join
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the column under the command
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00:23:09,330 --> 00:23:11,630
of Buenventura Durruti, a charismatic
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00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:13,970
leader whose adventurous life between
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00:23:13,970 --> 00:23:16,050
exile and prison gives him
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00:23:16,050 --> 00:23:18,310
an aura already legendary.
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00:23:34,030 --> 00:23:36,270
The popular militias are grouped
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by several tens of thousands of fighters.
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00:23:38,750 --> 00:23:40,210
But they are quickly trained,
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00:23:40,210 --> 00:23:41,970
poorly equipped, and have only a
409
00:23:41,970 --> 00:23:45,110
disparate and insufficient armament.
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00:23:46,420 --> 00:23:48,820
Most of all, the Republican
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00:23:48,820 --> 00:23:51,780
camp lacks heavy weapons, tanks, aircraft.
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00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,320
The Spanish government turns to France
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00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,340
where Léon Blum is chairman of
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00:24:04,340 --> 00:24:05,520
the council of a government
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00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,760
of the People's Front.
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00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:10,540
Blum is in favor of the delivery
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00:24:10,540 --> 00:24:12,100
of weapons, but he faces multiple
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00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:14,440
opposition, both internal and
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00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,160
external.
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00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:21,450
The British Conservatives refuse
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00:24:21,450 --> 00:24:24,170
to support the Republican camp.
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00:24:25,610 --> 00:24:27,730
In early August, a non-intervention
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pact was agreed in London
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00:24:29,150 --> 00:24:31,010
between the major European
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powers.
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The agreement is to observe the strictest
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00:24:34,150 --> 00:24:36,370
neutrality and to prohibit the sending
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00:24:36,370 --> 00:24:37,930
of weapons to Spain.
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This contract is a price.
430
00:24:42,460 --> 00:24:43,900
A legitimate government, which
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comes from free elections, is placed
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on the same level as the Poutchists.
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00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:51,040
This agreement comes as massive
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00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,060
aid has already been provided
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00:24:53,060 --> 00:24:54,720
by the Axis powers to Franco.
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00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,560
Hitler sent the Condor Legion, the
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00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:01,520
elite of the Nazi aviation.
438
00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:05,900
He also supplied Franco with modern
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00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:07,400
tanks that enabled him to experiment
440
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,020
with the movement warfare.
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00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:16,580
Officially, France’s Popular Front
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does not support Spain’s Popular
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Frontier.
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00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,120
In fact, since July, aircraft
445
00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:26,220
are shipped by truck thanks
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00:25:26,220 --> 00:25:29,100
to Jean Moulin, the cabinet
447
00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:30,500
director of the Air Minister,
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00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:31,940
Pierre Cotte.
449
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,000
André Malraux served
450
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,100
as an intermediary to the Spanish
451
00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:39,900
government to buy 55 aircraft
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00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:41,880
that crossed the border before
453
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,460
the neutrality pact came into
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00:25:43,460 --> 00:25:44,440
effect.
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For Malraux, man is defined by
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00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:49,100
his actions.
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00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,000
So it works, and efficiency is prime.
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00:25:53,020 --> 00:25:55,440
In the absence of pilots, he recruited,
459
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,160
with the help of Jean Moulin, mercenaries,
460
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,420
and formed the Spanish squadron
461
00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:01,340
with about thirty aircraft,
462
00:26:01,340 --> 00:26:03,280
mostly the potheses 54, which
463
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,920
were of valuable support in
464
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,640
the first battles.
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00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,820
Malraux aircraft, based at
466
00:26:14,820 --> 00:26:16,780
Barharras, Madrid airport, constituted
467
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,380
the only air force to oppose
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00:26:19,380 --> 00:26:21,080
the Franco’s northern uprising
469
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,080
of the African army.
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00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,740
His first exit, on August 18, allowed
471
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,400
a rebel column to be dispersed
472
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,500
in Medine.
473
00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:38,810
This bombardment, which will provide
474
00:26:38,810 --> 00:26:40,330
Malraux with epic pages of his
475
00:26:40,330 --> 00:26:42,450
novel L'Espoir, helps slow
476
00:26:42,450 --> 00:26:44,290
the Franco advance towards Madrid.
477
00:26:50,210 --> 00:26:52,210
The RSA is now signing
478
00:26:52,210 --> 00:26:54,130
the Non-Intervention Pact.
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00:26:54,750 --> 00:26:57,530
Stalin at first held to cautious
480
00:26:57,530 --> 00:26:59,150
neutrality.
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00:26:59,930 --> 00:27:01,590
Its priority remains the approximation
482
00:27:01,590 --> 00:27:03,690
at all costs with Western democracies,
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00:27:03,690 --> 00:27:05,810
which too much support for
484
00:27:05,810 --> 00:27:08,530
the Spanish Republic would compromise.
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00:27:13,330 --> 00:27:14,810
But the evidence of the aid provided
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00:27:14,810 --> 00:27:16,130
by Germany and Italy to Franco,
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00:27:16,130 --> 00:27:18,330
the possibility of a collapse
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00:27:18,330 --> 00:27:19,550
of the Spanish Republic, the
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00:27:19,550 --> 00:27:22,050
risks, finally, of the advent
490
00:27:22,050 --> 00:27:23,870
of a fascist state, pushed
491
00:27:23,950 --> 00:27:26,730
Stalin to get out of his attentism.
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00:27:26,730 --> 00:27:29,410
He cannot stand aside from the spontaneous
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00:27:29,410 --> 00:27:31,410
movement of solidarity with
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00:27:31,410 --> 00:27:33,450
Spain.
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00:27:33,830 --> 00:27:35,350
The help committees to the Republic flourish
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00:27:35,350 --> 00:27:37,210
a little everywhere.
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00:27:46,930 --> 00:27:51,210
In September 1936, the USSR decided
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00:27:51,210 --> 00:27:53,450
to help the Spanish Republic.
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00:27:53,450 --> 00:27:55,250
The first Soviet ships delivering
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00:27:55,250 --> 00:27:57,190
aircraft, tanks, machine
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00:27:57,410 --> 00:27:59,290
guns were welcomed by enthusiastic
502
00:27:59,290 --> 00:28:01,130
crowds.
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00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,340
Over the entire civil war,
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00:28:30,340 --> 00:28:34,380
the Soviet Union supplied
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00:28:34,380 --> 00:28:36,860
650 aircraft, 347 tanks and
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00:28:36,860 --> 00:28:38,740
20,000 machine guns.
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00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,160
In exchange, the Spanish government
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00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,920
will live in Moscow at the Bank
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00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:00,800
of Spain.
510
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,820
460 tons of gold, distributed
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00:29:07,820 --> 00:29:11,240
in 7,800 boxes, went to the USSR.
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00:29:14,170 --> 00:29:15,910
All Stalin’s material aid is paid
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00:29:15,910 --> 00:29:18,330
rubies on gold.
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00:29:27,220 --> 00:29:29,300
Moscow is not only sending weapons.
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00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,620
Stalin sent as ambassador Marcel
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00:29:32,620 --> 00:29:34,780
Rosenberg, who will play an influential
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00:29:34,780 --> 00:29:36,300
role with the Spanish
518
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:38,200
government.
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00:29:38,780 --> 00:29:40,940
The incident involved a thousand Russian
520
00:29:40,940 --> 00:29:42,380
military advisors, including the
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00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:44,660
Russian General Yann Berzin, head
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00:29:44,660 --> 00:29:45,800
of the Red Army’s military
523
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:46,540
intelligence.
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00:29:47,140 --> 00:29:48,820
He is the real boss of the
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00:29:48,820 --> 00:29:50,100
Republican army.
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00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,440
The political police, the
527
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,800
NKVD, is represented in Spain
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00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,140
by Orlov.
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00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,640
The Soviet intelligence services
530
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,800
will soon act in Spain, as at
531
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:03,600
home.
532
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,600
Next to Orlov, Mikhail Koltsov,
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00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,960
the special envoy of Pravda, who
534
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,520
is Stalin’s eye in Spain.
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00:30:17,450 --> 00:30:19,590
On 18 September, the
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00:30:19,590 --> 00:30:20,710
Communist International
537
00:30:20,710 --> 00:30:23,490
decided to create international
538
00:30:23,490 --> 00:30:25,750
brigades.
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00:30:26,990 --> 00:30:28,710
The volunteers, armed with
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00:30:28,710 --> 00:30:30,450
their only enthusiasm, give
541
00:30:30,450 --> 00:30:33,250
up everything to fight fascism.
542
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:40,500
The first groups of international
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00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:42,680
brigadists who came to fight
544
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,120
in Spain alongside the Republicans
545
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,900
arrived in early October.
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00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,020
They are headed to Albacete, where
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00:30:49,020 --> 00:30:50,500
nothing is ready to welcome them.
548
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,020
... by
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00:31:15,020 --> 00:31:16,500
The Urgent Order.
550
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,080
Without being trained, the 1st
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00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,460
Brigadier were sent to the
552
00:31:20,460 --> 00:31:22,280
Madrid front, which is cracking.
553
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:31,120
... by
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00:31:31,540 --> 00:31:33,940
In late October, Franco's
555
00:31:33,940 --> 00:31:35,680
troops occupied Madrid.
556
00:31:36,460 --> 00:31:38,600
The Spanish capital is within the reach
557
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:39,920
of the nationalist cannons.
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00:31:47,870 --> 00:31:49,730
24 artillery batteries are
559
00:31:49,730 --> 00:31:50,790
piling the city.
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00:31:55,630 --> 00:31:58,430
... by
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00:32:02,940 --> 00:32:04,880
On the Republican side,
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00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,460
all valid men, women and even
563
00:32:06,460 --> 00:32:08,460
children, are mobilized
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00:32:08,460 --> 00:32:09,780
to dig trunks west of the capital
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00:32:09,780 --> 00:32:11,980
and build thick barricades
566
00:32:11,980 --> 00:32:15,480
in the suburbs.
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00:32:35,180 --> 00:32:37,080
The people are waiting for the strong
568
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,580
attack.
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00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,480
General Miara, a traditional military
570
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:50,920
who remained loyal to the government,
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00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,040
leads the defensive trouble that
572
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,000
brings together all the organizations,
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00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,040
including the CNT’s anarchists.
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00:33:00,190 --> 00:33:02,490
The weight of the communists is overwhelming.
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00:33:02,790 --> 00:33:04,570
It is Soviet military advisers,
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00:33:04,570 --> 00:33:06,230
such as generals Goryev or
577
00:33:06,230 --> 00:33:08,910
Berzin, who surround Miara.
578
00:33:13,530 --> 00:33:15,730
The Communist Party had its own regiment,
579
00:33:15,730 --> 00:33:18,450
the Fifth, and then its organized
580
00:33:18,450 --> 00:33:20,110
and trained death, led
581
00:33:20,350 --> 00:33:21,850
by General Lister, formed
582
00:33:22,470 --> 00:33:23,490
in Moscow.
583
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,620
The 5th Regiment, with its 10,
584
00:33:28,620 --> 00:33:30,500
000 men, ensures security control
585
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,740
and carries out numerous
586
00:33:32,740 --> 00:33:33,880
arrests.
587
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,620
The very minority Communist
588
00:33:36,620 --> 00:33:38,400
Party saw its aura strengthened
589
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,500
by the arrival of Soviet T-26
590
00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,380
tanks disembarked from the Cars.
591
00:33:49,180 --> 00:33:51,540
Dolores Ibaruri, the leader of the Spanish
592
00:33:51,540 --> 00:33:53,900
PC nicknamed the Passionaria, is galvanizing
593
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,140
the population on the radio.
594
00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:20,640
In all of Madrid, banners
595
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,320
were spread that reprisal
596
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,480
the motto of passion,
597
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:25,520
No stops.
598
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,260
On the walls, huge propaganda
599
00:34:33,260 --> 00:34:35,620
posters call for fighting.
600
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,680
The whole world, however, believes
601
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,040
that Madrid will fall into the hands
602
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,400
of Franco’s army, whose advance
603
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:58,760
seems irresistible.
604
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,900
The international press is reporting
605
00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:04,820
the imminent fall of the capital.
606
00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:08,040
In the wake of the danger, the children
607
00:35:08,420 --> 00:35:11,980
were evacuated to Valencia in early November.
608
00:35:24,820 --> 00:35:26,900
The correspondent of Pravda,
609
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,960
Mikhail Koltsov, wrote: “Everyone
610
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,660
who can flee the city does.
611
00:35:32,220 --> 00:35:33,360
All the rich, all the high
612
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:34,780
officials are escaping.
613
00:35:35,820 --> 00:35:37,440
The Caballero government, in turn,
614
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:42,260
left Madrid for Valencia.
615
00:36:41,410 --> 00:36:43,110
In the last week of October,
616
00:36:43,110 --> 00:36:45,110
the city is subjected to
617
00:36:45,110 --> 00:36:46,990
intense air bombing.
618
00:36:47,730 --> 00:36:49,310
There are hundreds of victims.
619
00:36:58,410 --> 00:37:00,650
On November 7, 20,000 Franco
620
00:37:00,650 --> 00:37:02,350
soldiers launched an assault on
621
00:37:02,350 --> 00:37:04,390
the capital, by the west.
622
00:37:04,550 --> 00:37:06,650
They collide with the soldiers of the
623
00:37:06,650 --> 00:37:09,350
5th Regiment, firmly cut off.
624
00:37:14,330 --> 00:37:16,350
We fight in Kassad and Campo, the
625
00:37:16,350 --> 00:37:18,050
wood of Boulogne Madrid, a
626
00:37:18,050 --> 00:37:19,250
few heads from the center.
627
00:37:39,430 --> 00:37:41,350
To relieve the ground fighters,
628
00:37:41,350 --> 00:37:43,370
the Spanish squadron of Malraux
629
00:37:43,370 --> 00:37:45,930
performs outings and confronts
630
00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:47,190
Franco's aircraft.
631
00:37:58,060 --> 00:37:59,800
The first Soviet hunters
632
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,800
appear in the sky of Madrid.
633
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,680
On November 8, the first brigade of
634
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,260
international volunteers arrived
635
00:38:38,260 --> 00:38:39,600
in Madrid.
636
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:44,260
The entry of these 1900 men has
637
00:38:44,260 --> 00:38:46,180
a considerable impact on the
638
00:38:46,180 --> 00:38:48,360
inhabitants who no longer feel alone.
639
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,500
The brigadists travel the Grand
640
00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:52,880
Via in the middle of the vivas, then
641
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,360
they climb to the front.
642
00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:15,400
The 11th International Brigade
643
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:16,740
was formed by French, German
644
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:18,740
and Polish fighters.
645
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:20,880
The brigadists are armed with
646
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,580
old Remington rifles from
647
00:39:22,580 --> 00:39:25,480
the 14th war and have neither
648
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,300
machine gun nor gas mask.
649
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,700
Fights are murderous.
650
00:39:45,470 --> 00:39:46,770
Seeing the ground offensive to
651
00:39:46,770 --> 00:39:48,730
stumble, Franco ordered the
652
00:39:48,730 --> 00:39:50,610
air force to multiply the raids on Madrid.
653
00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:54,760
For the first time, a large
654
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:55,640
city is subjected to
655
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,140
systematic bombing.
656
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,100
The fire bombs killed hundreds
657
00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:05,260
of people.
658
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,480
Franco said, “I destroyed Madrid
659
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,360
rather than leave it to the
660
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,180
Marxists.
661
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:33,600
Thousands of buildings and buildings
662
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,540
were affected, including hospitals.
663
00:40:38,650 --> 00:40:40,790
The famous Prado Museum is being
664
00:40:40,790 --> 00:40:41,730
bombed.
665
00:40:41,930 --> 00:40:43,610
Fortunately, the paintings were
666
00:40:43,610 --> 00:40:45,130
evacuated to Valencia.
667
00:40:52,550 --> 00:40:55,090
On November 17, the 12th International
668
00:40:55,090 --> 00:40:57,310
Brigade, formed in 24 hours,
669
00:40:57,310 --> 00:40:59,490
arrived in Madrid.
670
00:40:59,990 --> 00:41:01,430
It replaces the 11th
671
00:41:01,430 --> 00:41:03,650
in the university.
672
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:06,940
The political commander of the
673
00:41:06,940 --> 00:41:08,880
12th was the German communist
674
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,140
writer Gustav Reigler who fled
675
00:41:11,140 --> 00:41:12,420
Nazism.
676
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:13,860
He is telling.
677
00:41:14,660 --> 00:41:16,760
We occupied the university district.
678
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:18,700
Behind the barricades, made with
679
00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:20,300
the rays of the libraries, by the suspiros
680
00:41:20,540 --> 00:41:21,700
of the basements, sometimes
681
00:41:22,220 --> 00:41:23,500
also the roofs of the university
682
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:25,300
city, we were shooting at
683
00:41:25,300 --> 00:41:25,780
night.
684
00:41:27,620 --> 00:41:28,960
The front line crosses through
685
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:30,820
buildings, physics laboratories,
686
00:41:30,820 --> 00:41:33,380
classrooms, amphitheaters.
687
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,160
We shoot at the end, from the paler
688
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,180
to the paler.
689
00:41:51,980 --> 00:41:53,500
Photographer Robert Capin landed
690
00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:56,420
in Madrid in the midst of battle.
691
00:41:57,910 --> 00:41:59,330
He follows the French volunteers
692
00:41:59,330 --> 00:42:01,590
fighting in the university city.
693
00:42:15,170 --> 00:42:17,970
The magazine is publishing its report in Paris.
694
00:42:19,030 --> 00:42:21,010
The Spanish Civil War is the first
695
00:42:21,010 --> 00:42:23,570
conflict photographed day after
696
00:42:23,570 --> 00:42:24,290
day.
697
00:42:28,660 --> 00:42:31,120
A cause without image is not
698
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,620
just a cause forgotten.
699
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,580
It is also a lost cause, Capa
700
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,160
wrote on November 18 to his partner,
701
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,720
Gerda Taro.
702
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,000
On November 15, a column of 3,000
703
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,500
anarchist militiamen, commanded
704
00:42:50,820 --> 00:42:52,840
by Dorruti, arrived in reinforcement
705
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,340
to defend Madrid.
706
00:42:55,740 --> 00:42:57,640
They attack Kassa des Campos,
707
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,120
but they are set aside.
708
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,780
On November 21, Dorouty was killed
709
00:43:06,780 --> 00:43:08,840
in dark circumstances.
710
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,260
At his funeral in Barcelona,
711
00:43:17,660 --> 00:43:20,000
500,000 people died in damage.
712
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,080
As a legend of his life, Dorouty
713
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:26,380
becomes an icon.
714
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:38,960
Faced with the fierce resistance
715
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,100
of Madrid, Franco renounces to take
716
00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:43,720
the capital by a frontal offensive.
717
00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:45,480
The Republican camp has won its
718
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:46,700
first victory.
719
00:43:49,030 --> 00:43:51,350
The international brigades, in the
720
00:43:51,350 --> 00:43:52,990
front line, with their courage and
721
00:43:52,990 --> 00:43:55,310
sacrifice, contributed, at the
722
00:43:55,570 --> 00:43:57,310
cost of terrible loss, to
723
00:43:57,310 --> 00:43:58,030
save Madrid.
724
00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:01,450
The city is transformed
725
00:44:01,450 --> 00:44:03,410
into a fortress.
726
00:44:04,710 --> 00:44:06,150
It is now clear that the
727
00:44:06,150 --> 00:44:07,750
fight will continue.
728
00:44:08,150 --> 00:44:10,230
The military coup turned into
729
00:44:10,230 --> 00:44:11,510
civil war.
730
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:18,840
Volunteers continue to flock
731
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,940
to Albacete, a small town halfway
732
00:44:20,940 --> 00:44:22,100
between Madrid and Valencia,
733
00:44:22,100 --> 00:44:24,160
which has been chosen to be
734
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,480
the seat of international brigades.
735
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,500
The fighters, who are 35,000
736
00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:30,740
during the war, are returning
737
00:44:31,220 --> 00:44:32,800
from about 50 countries.
738
00:44:34,940 --> 00:44:37,400
They are initially divided by nationality.
739
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:38,620
The most important of them
740
00:44:38,620 --> 00:44:40,420
are the French, then the Germans.
741
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:42,640
There are also in this Babel
742
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,960
court Italians, Czechs, Englishmen
743
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,780
and even 3,000 Americans
744
00:44:46,780 --> 00:44:48,800
who form the Linnikholm
745
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:49,760
brigade.
746
00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:05,480
The highly disciplined German volunteers
747
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,380
are grouped in the Tellman Battalion
748
00:45:07,380 --> 00:45:09,360
in the name of the German
749
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,140
Communist leader detained
750
00:45:11,140 --> 00:45:12,920
in Buchenwald.
751
00:45:17,220 --> 00:45:19,060
A barracks on the Liberty Cahier
752
00:45:19,060 --> 00:45:22,360
is used as an incorporation center.
753
00:45:23,180 --> 00:45:24,240
The brigadists are given their
754
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:26,960
uniforms, surpluses dating from
755
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:28,020
the First World War.
756
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,060
The recruits are aligned on a field
757
00:45:31,060 --> 00:45:32,280
of manoeuvre.
758
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:33,560
The head of the international
759
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,240
brigades, André Marty, one of the
760
00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:37,500
most powerful apparatchiks
761
00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:38,660
of the Communist International,
762
00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:41,800
the harangues.
763
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:43,720
No one disputes the authority of this
764
00:45:43,720 --> 00:45:46,040
brutal, a bit frustrated man, eager
765
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,560
to the heroic legend of the
766
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:49,800
Black Sea mutin.
767
00:46:00,650 --> 00:46:02,170
Military instruction
768
00:46:02,170 --> 00:46:04,370
is summary, most soldiers
769
00:46:04,370 --> 00:46:06,490
never held a gun.
770
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:22,300
... by
771
00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:24,040
In order to compensate for the
772
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:25,980
failures of military training
773
00:46:25,980 --> 00:46:27,840
and veteran armament,
774
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,620
political commissioners instill
775
00:46:29,620 --> 00:46:31,660
the idea that the fate of humanity
776
00:46:31,660 --> 00:46:34,040
depends on them.
777
00:46:55,950 --> 00:46:58,370
When the instruction is completed, the
778
00:46:58,870 --> 00:47:00,250
brigadists parade through the streets
779
00:47:00,250 --> 00:47:02,490
of Alba 7 before departing for the
780
00:47:02,490 --> 00:47:02,890
front.
781
00:47:13,050 --> 00:47:15,070
The Spanish squadron left Madrid
782
00:47:15,070 --> 00:47:18,130
for Alba 7 in November 1936.
783
00:47:18,830 --> 00:47:20,330
Malraux’s pilots are not
784
00:47:20,330 --> 00:47:23,190
dependent on international brigades.
785
00:47:23,350 --> 00:47:24,510
But the writer, who wants
786
00:47:24,510 --> 00:47:25,930
to replace mercenaries with volunteers,
787
00:47:25,930 --> 00:47:27,570
recruits mechanics
788
00:47:27,570 --> 00:47:29,210
from among the brigadists.
789
00:47:31,050 --> 00:47:32,990
In uniform or leather sweaters
790
00:47:32,990 --> 00:47:34,830
on the back, he engages men who
791
00:47:34,830 --> 00:47:36,250
have served in aviation.
792
00:47:37,390 --> 00:47:39,850
The Spanish squadron is named after
793
00:47:39,850 --> 00:47:41,590
André Malraux.
794
00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:48,040
At the end of the year, it will be
795
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,600
based near Valencia, in Portedelle
796
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:50,700
de Malaga.
797
00:47:58,990 --> 00:48:01,510
The city of Malaga, stranded
798
00:48:01,510 --> 00:48:03,210
along the Mediterranean, is
799
00:48:03,210 --> 00:48:04,610
attacked by nationalists reinforced
800
00:48:04,610 --> 00:48:07,250
by eight Italian battalions.
801
00:48:07,990 --> 00:48:09,070
They have a huge superiority
802
00:48:09,070 --> 00:48:10,430
of resources.
803
00:48:12,550 --> 00:48:14,150
The city is taken on February 8.
804
00:48:15,430 --> 00:48:17,310
Franco’s troops launched a
805
00:48:17,310 --> 00:48:18,750
brutal repression.
806
00:48:19,090 --> 00:48:20,090
Thousands of leftist militants
807
00:48:20,090 --> 00:48:21,650
were killed.
808
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:26,880
Thousands of people
809
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,900
are fleeing Malaga by coastal
810
00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:30,460
road to Valencia.
811
00:48:30,460 --> 00:48:32,380
They are bombed by Italian
812
00:48:32,380 --> 00:48:34,340
hunters who descend in machine
813
00:48:34,340 --> 00:48:36,320
guns of women and children.
814
00:48:43,580 --> 00:48:45,620
Mussolini's ships fired the fuyards
815
00:48:45,620 --> 00:48:47,480
with the naval cannon, turning
816
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,820
the exodus into a tragedy.
817
00:48:54,190 --> 00:48:56,090
From Valencia, André Malraux’
818
00:48:56,090 --> 00:48:58,290
s planes take off to
819
00:48:58,290 --> 00:49:00,210
protect the pity of refugees.
820
00:49:02,230 --> 00:49:04,610
During the fighting, two aircraft
821
00:49:04,610 --> 00:49:06,730
were shot down.
822
00:49:07,050 --> 00:49:08,790
In the absence of equipment, Malraux
823
00:49:08,790 --> 00:49:10,290
is forced to end the adventure
824
00:49:10,290 --> 00:49:12,150
of his squadron.
825
00:49:12,470 --> 00:49:13,770
He went to the United States to raise
826
00:49:13,770 --> 00:49:14,910
money.
827
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,040
The exodus on the route of Valencia continues.
828
00:49:29,940 --> 00:49:32,080
Gerda Taro photographs the refugees
829
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:33,440
fleeing from Malaga.
830
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,440
The weekly Mirror reports
831
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,200
this story.
832
00:49:51,900 --> 00:49:53,540
Thanks to the instant photos of
833
00:49:53,540 --> 00:49:55,540
reporters, the world witnesses
834
00:49:55,540 --> 00:49:58,280
the first logs of the civil war.
835
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,800
Franco could not take Madrid but
836
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:06,420
did not give up taking the capital
837
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:08,900
he was trying to surround to
838
00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:11,000
isolate it from its supply bases.
839
00:50:12,580 --> 00:50:14,720
On February 6, he launched
840
00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:16,840
a 18 km long front with a tense
841
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:18,620
attack across the Arama River
842
00:50:18,620 --> 00:50:20,720
to cut off the route from Valencia
843
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:22,460
to Madrid.
844
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,160
The Francois have 40,000
845
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,940
men and a hundred armored men.
846
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,260
The 14th International Brigade
847
00:50:39,260 --> 00:50:40,800
took a position to defend the
848
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,140
Pindoké Bridge over the Rarama.
849
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,180
Robert Capin, who doesn’t miss a
850
00:50:47,180 --> 00:50:49,340
battle, photographs the Republican
851
00:50:49,340 --> 00:50:50,780
posts in the front line.
852
00:50:54,260 --> 00:50:56,120
At the dawn of February 11,
853
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:57,980
Moroccan soldiers surprised the defenders
854
00:50:57,980 --> 00:50:59,520
and attacked the positions
855
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,060
of the 14th Brigade.
856
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,020
Placed on a height, the fighters
857
00:51:06,020 --> 00:51:07,960
of the 12th water the attackers
858
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,340
with a rolling fire.
859
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,560
Gustave Regler, political commissioner,
860
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:16,720
tells the massacre of the
861
00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:18,840
14th fighters.
862
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:20,760
Putting to the last band of machine
863
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,540
guns, the battalion remained
864
00:51:22,540 --> 00:51:24,560
on the spot, this body-to-
865
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,240
body battler had dead who arose,
866
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:28,940
the knife between the teeth.
867
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,780
The French, realizing that the
868
00:51:31,780 --> 00:51:33,120
Madrid-Valence road was about to
869
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,200
be cut off, clung to the field
870
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,260
with the same stubbornness they
871
00:51:37,260 --> 00:51:39,120
began to disobey when they
872
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:40,340
were at rest.
873
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,000
The 11th and 15th International
874
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:49,700
Brigades are called in their
875
00:51:49,700 --> 00:51:50,640
turn to reinforce.
876
00:51:51,420 --> 00:51:53,300
The 15th Brigade, comprised of
877
00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:55,620
26 different nationalities, consists
878
00:51:55,620 --> 00:51:57,560
of 6 battalions including the American
879
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,080
Lincoln Battalion.
880
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,060
Ten times, men go open to
881
00:52:12,060 --> 00:52:13,840
the face of machine guns that
882
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,080
spit death.
883
00:52:22,530 --> 00:52:24,450
The Battle of Rarama is a slaughter.
884
00:52:25,530 --> 00:52:27,390
In this Spanish green, the
885
00:52:27,390 --> 00:52:28,910
British battalion loses half
886
00:52:28,910 --> 00:52:30,090
of its members.
887
00:52:31,170 --> 00:52:32,630
All units are sent to the Caspian.
888
00:52:38,780 --> 00:52:40,880
The brigadists are being cut off on
889
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,860
the spot for a few arpents of land.
890
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:46,340
Two thousand were put out of the fight.
891
00:52:50,720 --> 00:52:52,660
The front is stabilizing.
892
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,900
Both camps suffered significant
893
00:52:54,900 --> 00:52:56,680
losses of around 10,000
894
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:57,460
men each.
895
00:53:04,790 --> 00:53:06,350
The Republican troops managed
896
00:53:06,350 --> 00:53:07,990
to keep control of the Madrid-
897
00:53:07,990 --> 00:53:09,870
Valence road.
898
00:53:39,100 --> 00:53:41,100
The American fighters of the Lincoln
899
00:53:41,100 --> 00:53:43,520
Brigade, filmed by Henry Cartier-
900
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,500
Bresson, face a song that
901
00:53:45,500 --> 00:53:47,320
perpetuates their legends, the
902
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:48,580
Rarama Valley, on the occasion
903
00:53:48,580 --> 00:53:50,680
of this battle.
904
00:54:09,020 --> 00:54:11,320
After the battle, the front
905
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,600
stabilizes, digging boils.
906
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:15,880
The monotonous, cutting-edge
907
00:54:16,300 --> 00:54:18,180
life settles, delighted by the visits
908
00:54:18,180 --> 00:54:20,240
of celebrities, such as actor
909
00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:20,880
Errol Finn.
910
00:54:24,220 --> 00:54:25,860
For the artists who see it as
911
00:54:25,860 --> 00:54:27,380
the confrontation of good and evil,
912
00:54:27,980 --> 00:54:29,800
the Spanish war exerts an irresistible
913
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:31,740
power of fascination.
914
00:54:32,020 --> 00:54:35,060
Writers, poets, filmmakers, short
915
00:54:35,060 --> 00:54:36,880
in Spain, stunned by the propaganda
916
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:38,540
services of the Communist
917
00:54:38,540 --> 00:54:39,940
International.
918
00:54:40,740 --> 00:54:42,580
In Madrid, they descend to the Florida
919
00:54:42,580 --> 00:54:44,260
Hotel on the Gran Via,
920
00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:46,300
regularly bombarded by the
921
00:54:46,300 --> 00:54:47,560
Franco artillery.
922
00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:52,440
Ernest Hemingway, the special envoy
923
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,800
of American magazines, arrived in Madrid
924
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,720
in March 1937.
925
00:54:57,620 --> 00:54:59,940
He is in room 108 on the side.
926
00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:01,180
I present you the photo of Robert
927
00:55:01,180 --> 00:55:03,720
Capa, accustomed to the gods,
928
00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:05,280
photographing in full work.
929
00:55:08,350 --> 00:55:10,410
International press reporters
930
00:55:10,410 --> 00:55:12,330
are housed at the hotel.
931
00:55:12,770 --> 00:55:14,150
Hemingway reads with Herbert Matthews,
932
00:55:14,150 --> 00:55:16,310
the New York Times's special
933
00:55:16,310 --> 00:55:16,930
envoy.
934
00:55:18,470 --> 00:55:19,590
When he is not on the front,
935
00:55:19,590 --> 00:55:21,930
Mikhail Koltsov, a correspondent
936
00:55:22,110 --> 00:55:23,850
for Pravda, is also
937
00:55:23,850 --> 00:55:24,870
in Florida.
938
00:55:26,250 --> 00:55:28,470
Friends of Malraux, Aragon,
939
00:55:28,470 --> 00:55:30,810
Gide, Koltsov takes care of
940
00:55:30,810 --> 00:55:33,370
Hemingway to show him what the
941
00:55:33,370 --> 00:55:34,690
communists desire that the
942
00:55:34,690 --> 00:55:35,690
writer sees.
943
00:55:36,650 --> 00:55:38,110
Strange character, with
944
00:55:38,110 --> 00:55:39,550
a dazzling intelligence, polyglot,
945
00:55:39,830 --> 00:55:42,290
Koltsov reduces reports to
946
00:55:42,290 --> 00:55:45,570
the NKVD where he denounces heretics.
947
00:55:47,010 --> 00:55:48,490
He inspired Hemingway to fascinate
948
00:55:48,490 --> 00:55:51,050
Karpov's character in For
949
00:55:51,050 --> 00:55:52,350
Whom the Glass Rings.
950
00:55:55,930 --> 00:55:58,470
John Dos Pazos, eagerly praised
951
00:55:58,470 --> 00:55:59,810
by the glory of Manhattan Transfer,
952
00:56:00,410 --> 00:56:01,610
also arrives in Florida.
953
00:56:02,330 --> 00:56:03,350
“What did you bring as
954
00:56:03,350 --> 00:56:04,550
a buffalo?
955
00:56:04,550 --> 00:56:06,570
He asks Hemingway, who is
956
00:56:06,570 --> 00:56:08,470
accumulating supplies in his room.
957
00:56:11,310 --> 00:56:12,370
When the bombs fall a little too
958
00:56:12,370 --> 00:56:14,210
close, Florida celebrities find
959
00:56:14,210 --> 00:56:16,390
themselves out on the street, in
960
00:56:16,770 --> 00:56:17,310
pyjamas.
961
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:29,480
Despite the failure on the rarama,
962
00:56:30,060 --> 00:56:31,300
Franco decides to launch a
963
00:56:31,300 --> 00:56:33,140
second attack, still with the aim
964
00:56:33,140 --> 00:56:34,900
of isolating the Spanish capital.
965
00:56:37,910 --> 00:56:39,650
Mussolini wants a victory.
966
00:56:39,870 --> 00:56:42,070
He sets out to take Guadalajara,
967
00:56:42,070 --> 00:56:44,610
a small town about 50
968
00:56:44,610 --> 00:56:46,410
kilometers northeast
969
00:56:46,410 --> 00:56:47,390
of Madrid.
970
00:56:48,210 --> 00:56:50,950
On March 8, 35,000 Italian soldiers
971
00:56:50,950 --> 00:56:52,310
attacked with a armored division
972
00:56:52,310 --> 00:56:54,190
and crashed across the Republican
973
00:56:54,190 --> 00:56:55,230
lines.
974
00:56:55,890 --> 00:56:57,330
At first they move forward
975
00:56:57,330 --> 00:56:58,550
quickly.
976
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:07,240
... by
977
00:57:14,510 --> 00:57:16,290
The fighting is fierce and
978
00:57:16,290 --> 00:57:18,430
the brigadists are fighting
979
00:57:18,430 --> 00:57:19,610
in the front line.
980
00:57:20,690 --> 00:57:22,450
The 12th International Brigade, in
981
00:57:22,450 --> 00:57:24,810
particular, plays a decisive role.
982
00:57:27,970 --> 00:57:29,090
The Italian Garibaldi
983
00:57:29,090 --> 00:57:31,530
battalion faces the Italian
984
00:57:31,530 --> 00:57:33,210
fascists.
985
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:39,960
The entire Florida band came
986
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:40,980
to see the fight.
987
00:57:41,380 --> 00:57:43,180
Koltsov writes his reports
988
00:57:43,180 --> 00:57:45,260
for Pravda.
989
00:57:47,180 --> 00:57:49,560
Hemingway is following the men
990
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:50,620
of the 12th International
991
00:57:50,620 --> 00:57:52,900
Brigade to the first lodges.
992
00:57:53,860 --> 00:57:55,800
The writer does not want
993
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:56,480
to shoot.
994
00:57:58,850 --> 00:58:01,270
Gustave Regler, who becomes his friend,
995
00:58:01,270 --> 00:58:03,170
the political commissioner of the
996
00:58:03,170 --> 00:58:05,090
12th, serves as a guide on the
997
00:58:05,090 --> 00:58:05,630
front line.
998
00:58:06,850 --> 00:58:08,030
Seeing a doctor going to pick
999
00:58:08,030 --> 00:58:09,390
up a wounded between the
1000
00:58:09,670 --> 00:58:12,610
lines, Hemingway confides
1001
00:58:12,610 --> 00:58:14,470
to Rule The death-front detachments
1002
00:58:14,470 --> 00:58:17,570
only meet with the best toreros.
1003
00:58:18,830 --> 00:58:20,610
Hemingway is accompanied by
1004
00:58:20,610 --> 00:58:22,810
filmmaker Joris Ivans with whom he
1005
00:58:22,810 --> 00:58:25,370
is filming a film, Land of Spain.
1006
00:58:35,370 --> 00:58:36,370
The Republicans break the
1007
00:58:36,370 --> 00:58:38,910
Italian offensive and counter-attack.
1008
00:58:39,810 --> 00:58:41,730
Mussolini’s soldiers flee into
1009
00:58:41,730 --> 00:58:43,530
disorder and leave on the
1010
00:58:43,530 --> 00:58:45,850
spot tons of equipment and
1011
00:58:45,850 --> 00:58:46,950
thousands of prisoners.
1012
00:58:55,620 --> 00:58:58,140
The victory of Guadalajara, to
1013
00:58:58,140 --> 00:58:58,920
which international
1014
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:00,280
briades have largely contributed,
1015
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:07,080
restores hope to the Republican camp.
1016
00:59:19,980 --> 00:59:21,340
Five months of fierce battles
1017
00:59:21,340 --> 00:59:23,300
around Madrid did not allow Franco
1018
00:59:23,300 --> 00:59:26,080
to take over the capital.
1019
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,200
He changes his goal and decides
1020
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,040
to focus his efforts on the
1021
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:33,000
Northern Coast, a republican
1022
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,620
enclave in nationalist territory.
1023
00:59:36,460 --> 00:59:39,900
On March 31, 1937, Franco's troops
1024
00:59:39,900 --> 00:59:41,340
attacked the city.
1025
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:43,440
In this mountainous region, the
1026
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,460
Condor Legion, sent by Hitler, is
1027
00:59:45,980 --> 00:59:47,500
a decisive asset.
1028
00:59:50,390 --> 00:59:52,350
Nazi strategists have piled cities
1029
00:59:52,350 --> 00:59:54,010
and villages to experiment
1030
00:59:54,010 --> 00:59:56,250
with the effects of air
1031
00:59:56,250 --> 00:59:58,150
terror on the population.
1032
01:00:10,990 --> 01:00:13,430
In Dorango, a church is
1033
01:00:13,430 --> 01:00:15,050
bombed during the office.
1034
01:00:15,470 --> 01:00:18,210
In the entire city there are 250 bodies.
1035
01:00:23,030 --> 01:00:24,690
The Basques resisted for
1036
01:00:24,690 --> 01:00:26,190
several weeks airstrikes,
1037
01:00:26,190 --> 01:00:28,810
naval blockades and ground
1038
01:00:28,810 --> 01:00:30,250
offensives.
1039
01:00:33,770 --> 01:00:36,450
On April 25, 43 Condor Legion
1040
01:00:36,450 --> 01:00:38,390
aircraft bombed a small town
1041
01:00:38,390 --> 01:00:41,670
of 7,000 inhabitants, Guernica.
1042
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,120
On this day of the market, there are crowds
1043
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:50,840
around the stalls and cattle.
1044
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:53,480
For two hours, the city was covered
1045
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:55,040
with a carpet of bombs.
1046
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:57,480
Cows are wrapped in a sound
1047
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:58,340
of apocalypse.
1048
01:01:08,050 --> 01:01:09,310
German hunters chase
1049
01:01:09,310 --> 01:01:10,590
those seeking refuge,
1050
01:01:10,590 --> 01:01:12,230
men, women, children,
1051
01:01:12,450 --> 01:01:15,050
animals.
1052
01:01:19,710 --> 01:01:24,350
There are 1654 dead and 800 wounded.
1053
01:01:24,430 --> 01:01:27,070
There is only one remaining skeleton
1054
01:01:27,070 --> 01:01:29,830
of Guernica that she signed.
1055
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:47,040
Shaken by the bombing of Guernica,
1056
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,300
Picasso, in a few weeks,
1057
01:01:49,300 --> 01:01:51,580
painted an immense painting.
1058
01:01:58,100 --> 01:01:59,740
At the 1937 Paris World
1059
01:01:59,740 --> 01:02:02,580
Exhibition, the Guernica
1060
01:02:02,580 --> 01:02:04,520
painting was presented
1061
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:05,560
in the Spanish
1062
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:07,400
flag.
1063
01:02:14,810 --> 01:02:16,670
For the Republican camp, the
1064
01:02:16,670 --> 01:02:18,410
situation in the North is critical.
1065
01:02:18,710 --> 01:02:20,610
In order to ease this front,
1066
01:02:21,110 --> 01:02:22,790
the General Staff decided to
1067
01:02:22,790 --> 01:02:24,110
launch an operation in the Sierra
1068
01:02:24,110 --> 01:02:26,750
de Guadarrama north of Madrid, with
1069
01:02:26,750 --> 01:02:29,510
the aim of taking Segovia.
1070
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:34,360
Gerda Taro is equipped with her Leica
1071
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:35,780
and Robert Capa, who has a small
1072
01:02:35,780 --> 01:02:38,260
camera has said, also follows
1073
01:02:38,260 --> 01:02:39,500
the Republican troops.
1074
01:02:43,970 --> 01:02:45,930
Capa filmed the tanks, a man
1075
01:02:45,930 --> 01:02:47,730
on the phone, officers
1076
01:02:47,730 --> 01:02:48,470
on a map.
1077
01:02:53,750 --> 01:02:55,950
These images will serve Hemingway,
1078
01:02:56,290 --> 01:02:57,130
present on the battlefield,
1079
01:02:57,130 --> 01:02:58,890
who will use this offensive as
1080
01:02:58,890 --> 01:03:01,230
the framework for his novel “For Whom
1081
01:03:01,230 --> 01:03:09,000
Does the Glass Rings?
1082
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:28,660
“”
1083
01:03:28,660 --> 01:03:30,220
A thousand men from the XIV International
1084
01:03:30,220 --> 01:03:32,300
Brigade have lost their lives in
1085
01:03:32,300 --> 01:03:34,020
an unnecessary attack.
1086
01:03:35,870 --> 01:03:36,910
The soldiers feel sacrificed
1087
01:03:36,910 --> 01:03:38,170
for nothing.
1088
01:03:44,420 --> 01:03:46,700
Some refuse to go back to the fight.
1089
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,520
A captain designates five men and
1090
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:57,480
shoots them one after another
1091
01:03:57,480 --> 01:03:59,360
with a bullet in the head in
1092
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:00,360
the Soviet way.
1093
01:04:12,930 --> 01:04:14,230
This distraction attack on Segovia
1094
01:04:14,230 --> 01:04:16,210
did not prevent the Franco troops,
1095
01:04:16,210 --> 01:04:17,630
backed by the Nazi aviation,
1096
01:04:17,630 --> 01:04:19,550
from continuing their offensive
1097
01:04:19,550 --> 01:04:20,890
towards Bilbao.
1098
01:04:21,950 --> 01:04:23,570
The city is besieged.
1099
01:04:24,190 --> 01:04:25,770
The surrounding reliefs are bombarded
1100
01:04:25,770 --> 01:04:27,670
by the Franco cannons.
1101
01:04:39,420 --> 01:04:42,100
Robert Capa manages to penetrate
1102
01:04:42,100 --> 01:04:44,440
Bilbao, where the siren, which
1103
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:45,980
announces airstrikes, rings
1104
01:04:46,340 --> 01:04:48,860
up to 15 and 20 times in a
1105
01:04:48,860 --> 01:04:50,840
single morning.
1106
01:04:53,090 --> 01:04:55,090
Capa spent 10 days among the
1107
01:04:55,090 --> 01:04:57,270
siege population.
1108
01:05:15,890 --> 01:05:17,810
The people, frightened, flee the
1109
01:05:17,810 --> 01:05:18,870
Franco advance.
1110
01:05:19,470 --> 01:05:20,530
Hundreds of women and children
1111
01:05:20,530 --> 01:05:22,590
were evacuated by sea.
1112
01:05:46,470 --> 01:05:48,790
Franco's troops entered Bilbao
1113
01:05:48,790 --> 01:05:51,610
on June 19, 1937.
1114
01:05:52,790 --> 01:05:53,810
They are welcomed
1115
01:05:53,810 --> 01:05:56,030
with a lot of popularity.
1116
01:05:59,590 --> 01:06:01,290
Within a few weeks, despite a
1117
01:06:01,290 --> 01:06:03,550
desperate resistance, the Northern
1118
01:06:03,550 --> 01:06:05,470
Republican enclave fell into
1119
01:06:05,470 --> 01:06:06,690
Franco's cradle.
1120
01:06:13,710 --> 01:06:15,470
The Spanish Republic was dependent
1121
01:06:15,470 --> 01:06:17,370
on material support from the
1122
01:06:17,370 --> 01:06:18,490
Soviet Union.
1123
01:06:20,210 --> 01:06:21,570
Due to Russian aid, the
1124
01:06:21,950 --> 01:06:23,590
Communist Party’s influence
1125
01:06:23,590 --> 01:06:25,630
on the Republican camp continues
1126
01:06:25,630 --> 01:06:27,970
to grow, disproportionate
1127
01:06:27,970 --> 01:06:30,510
to its actual establishment.
1128
01:06:32,710 --> 01:06:34,250
The Communists practice a
1129
01:06:34,250 --> 01:06:35,550
systematic policy of submerging
1130
01:06:35,550 --> 01:06:37,710
civil and military power
1131
01:06:37,710 --> 01:06:39,390
positions.
1132
01:06:43,830 --> 01:06:45,710
In the army, almost all senior
1133
01:06:45,710 --> 01:06:47,350
officers, such as General
1134
01:06:47,350 --> 01:06:50,110
Lister, are party members.
1135
01:06:56,340 --> 01:06:57,860
Tensions and confrontations multiply
1136
01:06:57,860 --> 01:06:59,380
between the libertarians,
1137
01:06:59,380 --> 01:07:01,260
who favor social revolution,
1138
01:07:01,260 --> 01:07:03,120
and the communist wing, who
1139
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,140
first and foremost want to
1140
01:07:05,140 --> 01:07:08,160
restore a state and make war.
1141
01:07:08,940 --> 01:07:11,160
Stalin does not want a revolution
1142
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:12,880
in Spain at any price, for it
1143
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:13,940
is not led by the communists
1144
01:07:13,940 --> 01:07:16,080
but by the anarchists.
1145
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,400
For the Soviet advisers, the priority
1146
01:07:19,780 --> 01:07:21,180
was the re-rule of the militias
1147
01:07:21,180 --> 01:07:23,420
and their integration into
1148
01:07:23,420 --> 01:07:26,660
a centralized army they controlled.
1149
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:34,530
It is in Barcelona, in a region
1150
01:07:34,530 --> 01:07:36,050
where the collectivization of land
1151
01:07:36,050 --> 01:07:38,210
and has been pushed further than
1152
01:07:38,210 --> 01:07:40,030
elsewhere, that the tension
1153
01:07:40,030 --> 01:07:41,830
is the strongest.
1154
01:07:43,870 --> 01:07:45,770
The city of the Revolution escapes
1155
01:07:45,770 --> 01:07:47,990
the central government of Valencia.
1156
01:07:49,270 --> 01:07:52,430
The CNT militias are encircling the city.
1157
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:03,020
In addition to the Liberalists, a small
1158
01:08:03,020 --> 01:08:05,660
anti-Stalinist Marxist party, the POUM,
1159
01:08:05,660 --> 01:08:07,320
is influential there.
1160
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,200
The POUM, led by Andrés Nin, is
1161
01:08:12,700 --> 01:08:14,740
the only party that denounces
1162
01:08:14,740 --> 01:08:16,220
Stalinist purges.
1163
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:18,260
For the Communists, it is the
1164
01:08:18,260 --> 01:08:20,140
enemy to be shot.
1165
01:08:22,500 --> 01:08:24,020
The Soviet advisers, wanting
1166
01:08:24,260 --> 01:08:25,580
to end this liberate and autonomous
1167
01:08:25,580 --> 01:08:27,460
pocket of Catalonia, refrain
1168
01:08:27,460 --> 01:08:29,060
from centralization
1169
01:08:29,060 --> 01:08:32,160
and communist orthodoxy.
1170
01:08:34,020 --> 01:08:36,660
The Pravda warns, the elimination of
1171
01:08:36,660 --> 01:08:38,420
Trotsky and the anarchists has begun
1172
01:08:38,420 --> 01:08:41,600
and will continue with the same
1173
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:43,160
energy as in the USSR.
1174
01:08:48,700 --> 01:08:50,260
On the streets of Barcelona, tensions
1175
01:08:50,260 --> 01:08:51,180
are rising.
1176
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:05,760
George Orwell, returning from the
1177
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:07,860
front for a permit, met Dospasos
1178
01:09:07,860 --> 01:09:11,540
on April 28, 1937 on his departure
1179
01:09:11,540 --> 01:09:12,340
for France.
1180
01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:15,100
Orwell tells the American writer,
1181
01:09:15,100 --> 01:09:16,800
sympathizing with anarchists,
1182
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:19,200
the atmosphere of hatred in
1183
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:20,800
the Catalan capital.
1184
01:09:22,750 --> 01:09:24,270
The two commented.
1185
01:09:24,270 --> 01:09:25,990
Stalin supplied the Republicans
1186
01:09:25,990 --> 01:09:27,530
with weapons, but added terror
1187
01:09:27,530 --> 01:09:28,370
as a bonus.
1188
01:09:29,050 --> 01:09:30,810
This is the ideal recipe
1189
01:09:30,810 --> 01:09:33,150
for the fascists to win.
1190
01:09:36,780 --> 01:09:38,080
During this same stay in Barcelona,
1191
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:41,000
Dospasos has an interview with Andrés
1192
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,180
Nin, the leader of the POUM,
1193
01:09:43,180 --> 01:09:45,500
romantic revolutionary, virulent
1194
01:09:45,780 --> 01:09:47,800
anti-Stalinist, caught between
1195
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:49,960
two fires, the Communists and
1196
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:51,140
the Fascists.
1197
01:09:55,030 --> 01:09:57,050
On May 3, assault guards
1198
01:09:57,050 --> 01:09:58,670
attempted to take over the control
1199
01:09:58,670 --> 01:10:00,730
of the Barcelona telephone
1200
01:10:00,730 --> 01:10:02,930
station, which was held since
1201
01:10:02,930 --> 01:10:04,830
July 1936 by the CNT
1202
01:10:04,830 --> 01:10:06,970
anarchist militias.
1203
01:10:09,060 --> 01:10:11,060
This attack puts fire to the powder.
1204
01:10:11,440 --> 01:10:13,280
Within a few hours, the city was covered
1205
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:14,420
with barricades.
1206
01:10:16,210 --> 01:10:18,210
On one side, we find the POUM activists,
1207
01:10:18,210 --> 01:10:20,050
the CNT anarchists, friends
1208
01:10:20,050 --> 01:10:22,570
of Durruti.
1209
01:10:22,770 --> 01:10:24,610
On the other hand, the communists
1210
01:10:24,610 --> 01:10:26,050
and government forces, which
1211
01:10:26,050 --> 01:10:27,270
send reinforcements in men.
1212
01:10:28,860 --> 01:10:31,020
A group of tanks entered the city.
1213
01:10:31,940 --> 01:10:34,200
Orwell is shooting the
1214
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:35,360
POUM.
1215
01:10:40,170 --> 01:10:41,890
Clashes continue for several
1216
01:10:41,890 --> 01:10:43,550
days in Barcelona, causing
1217
01:10:43,850 --> 01:10:46,390
the deaths of hundreds of people.
1218
01:10:46,970 --> 01:10:49,690
A ceasefire was declared.
1219
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:55,680
Communist newspapers are
1220
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:57,180
unleashing against the Trotskyists,
1221
01:10:57,660 --> 01:10:59,120
presented as Franco’s allies.
1222
01:11:01,550 --> 01:11:03,550
Orloff’s services imagine a
1223
01:11:03,550 --> 01:11:04,410
trotskist plot in connection
1224
01:11:04,410 --> 01:11:06,590
with Hitler and Mussolini.
1225
01:11:10,380 --> 01:11:12,360
The Barcelona clash ended
1226
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:13,980
with the total victory of the
1227
01:11:13,980 --> 01:11:14,980
Communists.
1228
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:17,440
The recovery of the situation is accompanied
1229
01:11:17,440 --> 01:11:18,520
by a political crisis.
1230
01:11:23,150 --> 01:11:25,130
Largo Caballero, who refuses
1231
01:11:25,130 --> 01:11:27,670
to repress the POUM, is dismissed.
1232
01:11:31,310 --> 01:11:33,450
He is replaced by Juan Negrin, head
1233
01:11:33,450 --> 01:11:35,190
of a government without the CNT anarchists,
1234
01:11:35,190 --> 01:11:37,250
where the weight of the Communist
1235
01:11:37,250 --> 01:11:39,770
Party is determining.
1236
01:11:48,030 --> 01:11:49,910
The POUM leaders are arrested
1237
01:11:49,910 --> 01:11:52,050
and tortured by Soviet
1238
01:11:52,050 --> 01:11:54,150
NKVD agents.
1239
01:11:54,950 --> 01:11:56,370
In Spain, there is
1240
01:11:56,370 --> 01:11:57,870
a witch hunt.
1241
01:11:59,270 --> 01:12:01,410
Andresnin is abducted, horribly tortured
1242
01:12:01,410 --> 01:12:03,510
and murdered by the men
1243
01:12:03,510 --> 01:12:04,410
of Orloff.
1244
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:11,460
A bloodshed is brewing in the heart of
1245
01:12:11,460 --> 01:12:12,980
the Republican camp.
1246
01:12:22,230 --> 01:12:24,890
In August 1937 the CIM, a military
1247
01:12:25,250 --> 01:12:27,210
investigative service, was created,
1248
01:12:27,210 --> 01:12:29,030
a political police of 6,000
1249
01:12:29,030 --> 01:12:31,130
men under communist control.
1250
01:12:32,110 --> 01:12:34,850
The ICM arrests and executes in
1251
01:12:34,850 --> 01:12:36,930
secret prisons called Checas.
1252
01:12:38,010 --> 01:12:40,290
The Republican camp is becoming more
1253
01:12:40,290 --> 01:12:42,570
and more like a Soviet camp.
1254
01:12:47,460 --> 01:12:49,200
Orwell, who had to hide to escape
1255
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:50,180
Stalinist repression,
1256
01:12:50,180 --> 01:12:52,360
returned to fight on the Aragonese
1257
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:54,240
front in the Poum column.
1258
01:12:56,300 --> 01:12:57,800
Newspapers from Barcelona are
1259
01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:00,380
intercepted so that the fighters
1260
01:13:00,380 --> 01:13:01,840
do not learn that at the same
1261
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:03,540
time, their comrades, accused
1262
01:13:03,540 --> 01:13:05,600
of treason, are arrested
1263
01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:08,660
and executed.
1264
01:13:10,730 --> 01:13:12,850
George Orwell, whose head, due
1265
01:13:12,850 --> 01:13:14,710
to his tall height, goes beyond the
1266
01:13:14,710 --> 01:13:16,650
trunk, receives a bullet in the
1267
01:13:16,650 --> 01:13:18,650
throat and must leave the forehead.
1268
01:13:19,550 --> 01:13:21,830
The war in Spain is over for him.
1269
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:33,180
Few artists or writers engaged
1270
01:13:33,180 --> 01:13:35,080
alongside the Spanish Republicans
1271
01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:36,980
are moving from civil
1272
01:13:36,980 --> 01:13:39,120
war to civil war.
1273
01:13:41,500 --> 01:13:44,380
On July 4, 1937, in the Grand
1274
01:13:44,380 --> 01:13:45,880
Hall of the City Hall in Valencia,
1275
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:47,700
an international congress
1276
01:13:47,700 --> 01:13:49,340
for culture was held by
1277
01:13:49,340 --> 01:13:51,080
the Communist International’
1278
01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:53,960
s propaganda services.
1279
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,120
200 writers from 26 countries
1280
01:13:57,120 --> 01:14:00,640
came to support the Republican cause.
1281
01:14:01,820 --> 01:14:04,180
Malraux is one of the main speakers.
1282
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:07,360
In the name of the fight against Franco,
1283
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:09,880
Malraux does not say a word about the
1284
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,440
reality of the repression led by the communists.
1285
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:15,280
He chooses effectiveness rather than
1286
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:16,100
truth.
1287
01:14:18,510 --> 01:14:19,910
The world of letters is
1288
01:14:19,910 --> 01:14:20,670
present.
1289
01:14:20,990 --> 01:14:23,730
Gustav Reigler, Rossé Bergamine, Tristan
1290
01:14:23,970 --> 01:14:26,350
Zahra, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda,
1291
01:14:26,350 --> 01:14:28,530
Louis Aragon, Paul Nizan, Anna Segerz,
1292
01:14:28,870 --> 01:14:31,190
Mikhail Koltsov, participate
1293
01:14:31,710 --> 01:14:33,210
in the congress.
1294
01:14:33,610 --> 01:14:34,870
The German writer Ludwig
1295
01:14:34,870 --> 01:14:36,550
Schrein, political commissioner
1296
01:14:36,550 --> 01:14:38,230
in the international brigades,
1297
01:14:38,490 --> 01:14:41,030
declares that the role of writers
1298
01:14:41,030 --> 01:14:42,770
who fight for freedom
1299
01:14:42,770 --> 01:14:43,970
is not to write stories,
1300
01:14:43,970 --> 01:14:46,310
but to make history.
1301
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:50,660
Photographer Gerda Taro
1302
01:14:50,660 --> 01:14:52,220
temporarily left the battlefield
1303
01:14:52,220 --> 01:14:54,340
to immortalize the
1304
01:14:54,340 --> 01:14:55,520
pen man.
1305
01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:19,720
While the intellectuals are in
1306
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:21,480
Congress, the Republican
1307
01:15:21,480 --> 01:15:24,520
Staff launched on July 6 the most
1308
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:25,960
important offensive since
1309
01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:27,380
the beginning of the war.
1310
01:15:28,740 --> 01:15:30,000
The target chosen by the
1311
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:31,500
Soviet advisers is Brunettet,
1312
01:15:31,500 --> 01:15:34,440
a village 20 km west
1313
01:15:34,440 --> 01:15:35,300
of Madrid.
1314
01:15:38,480 --> 01:15:40,860
70,000 people participated in the operation.
1315
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:44,500
Five international brigades are
1316
01:15:44,500 --> 01:15:46,400
being assigned a key role in this
1317
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:48,160
battle that is to ease the
1318
01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:50,680
rates around the capital.
1319
01:15:57,920 --> 01:15:59,300
At first, the Republican forces,
1320
01:15:59,300 --> 01:16:01,260
backed by the tanks,
1321
01:16:01,260 --> 01:16:03,480
managed to advance.
1322
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:13,900
The 11th division of General
1323
01:16:13,900 --> 01:16:17,200
Lister entered Brunettet.
1324
01:16:27,990 --> 01:16:30,570
Ataro War opens the battle for
1325
01:16:30,570 --> 01:16:32,230
the newspaper tonight.
1326
01:16:49,670 --> 01:16:50,850
These photos give the world
1327
01:16:50,850 --> 01:16:53,190
the assurance that Brunettet is
1328
01:16:53,190 --> 01:16:54,910
in the hands of government troops.
1329
01:17:06,410 --> 01:17:07,570
But Franco makes the bombers
1330
01:17:07,570 --> 01:17:09,010
and hunters of the Condor Legion,
1331
01:17:09,010 --> 01:17:11,150
who pour out a flood of fire
1332
01:17:11,150 --> 01:17:12,990
on the republican divisions,
1333
01:17:12,990 --> 01:17:15,610
to discover on this sun-
1334
01:17:15,610 --> 01:17:17,610
burned plateau.
1335
01:17:23,690 --> 01:17:26,190
The Franco infantry supported
1336
01:17:26,190 --> 01:17:28,230
by 60 artillery batteries attack
1337
01:17:28,230 --> 01:17:30,550
on the whole front the brigadists
1338
01:17:30,550 --> 01:17:32,990
who have terrible losses must pick
1339
01:17:32,990 --> 01:17:35,190
up brunette is recovered
1340
01:17:35,190 --> 01:17:38,150
retirement turns to the debandade
1341
01:17:38,150 --> 01:17:43,920
at the end of afternoon
1342
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:46,060
on Sunday 25 July war
1343
01:17:46,060 --> 01:17:47,980
of ataro is crushed tragic
1344
01:17:47,980 --> 01:17:50,780
ridiculing by a Republican
1345
01:17:51,380 --> 01:17:52,960
who escaped the control
1346
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,260
of its driver.
1347
01:17:56,820 --> 01:17:57,640
She died the next day in
1348
01:17:57,640 --> 01:17:59,160
terrible suffering.
1349
01:18:01,740 --> 01:18:02,820
When I think of all the extraordinary
1350
01:18:02,820 --> 01:18:04,840
people who died during this
1351
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:06,260
war, I feel like it’s
1352
01:18:06,260 --> 01:18:08,020
not fair that I’m still alive,
1353
01:18:08,020 --> 01:18:10,120
aviving the screams just
1354
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:12,140
before his death.
1355
01:18:15,500 --> 01:18:17,840
Robert Capa will never be comforted
1356
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:19,300
by Gerda’s loss.
1357
01:18:29,770 --> 01:18:31,490
The Great Offensive of the
1358
01:18:31,490 --> 01:18:33,750
Republic on Brunettet ended with
1359
01:18:33,750 --> 01:18:35,590
a major reversal, the
1360
01:18:35,590 --> 01:18:37,310
destruction of the best troops.
1361
01:18:37,610 --> 01:18:39,830
23,000 Republican fighters
1362
01:18:39,830 --> 01:18:40,630
died there.
1363
01:18:41,490 --> 01:18:42,930
Foreign volunteers, always
1364
01:18:43,390 --> 01:18:45,050
sent to the front posts, have
1365
01:18:45,170 --> 01:18:47,010
the bitter feeling, once again,
1366
01:18:47,010 --> 01:18:49,270
of being treated like cannon
1367
01:18:49,270 --> 01:18:49,890
meat.
1368
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:07,660
Several cases of riots are
1369
01:19:07,660 --> 01:19:08,880
among the Americans and British
1370
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:10,060
13th Brigade, who have
1371
01:19:10,060 --> 01:19:12,140
just spent 150 consecutive
1372
01:19:12,140 --> 01:19:14,280
days on the front.
1373
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,240
Execution is ordered for example.
1374
01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:22,380
The 13th Brigade was disarmed and disbanded.
1375
01:19:27,050 --> 01:19:28,910
To feed the strong heads, the leadership
1376
01:19:28,910 --> 01:19:29,770
of the International
1377
01:19:29,770 --> 01:19:31,630
Brigades opened a camp, called
1378
01:19:31,870 --> 01:19:34,050
Camp Luke Hatch, 40 km from
1379
01:19:34,050 --> 01:19:35,210
Albacet.
1380
01:19:36,330 --> 01:19:38,930
In three months, during the summer
1381
01:19:39,470 --> 01:19:41,610
of 1937, 4,000 men were interned
1382
01:19:41,610 --> 01:19:43,830
there, disappointed British, bitter
1383
01:19:43,830 --> 01:19:45,870
and disillusioned Americans
1384
01:19:45,870 --> 01:19:47,510
and French who simply wanted
1385
01:19:47,510 --> 01:19:48,650
to go home.
1386
01:19:54,950 --> 01:19:57,470
In the fall of 1937, the moral
1387
01:19:57,470 --> 01:19:59,630
of international brigadists is
1388
01:19:59,630 --> 01:20:00,590
close to zero.
1389
01:20:10,830 --> 01:20:13,270
By the end of 1937, the military
1390
01:20:13,270 --> 01:20:15,210
strength ratio turned to Franco's
1391
01:20:15,210 --> 01:20:16,330
advantage.
1392
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:19,960
The total occupation of northern
1393
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:21,900
Spain has turned the balance in favor
1394
01:20:21,900 --> 01:20:24,320
of the nationalist camp that recovers
1395
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:25,920
the weapons factories of the Basque
1396
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:27,880
Country, the heavy industry of Bilbao,
1397
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:31,360
the coal and iron of Asturias, thanks
1398
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:40,200
to the German and Italian
1399
01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:42,340
aid, the air supremacy of the
1400
01:20:42,340 --> 01:20:44,360
nationalist aviation that
1401
01:20:44,360 --> 01:20:46,280
has 400 aircraft, makes the
1402
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:48,120
concentrations of troops
1403
01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:50,660
even more random.
1404
01:20:52,930 --> 01:20:54,770
Yet the Republican Staff did not
1405
01:20:54,770 --> 01:20:57,270
change its strategy of large
1406
01:20:57,270 --> 01:20:59,390
frontal offensives, so expensive
1407
01:20:59,390 --> 01:21:01,050
in men, but propitious for
1408
01:21:01,050 --> 01:21:02,950
propaganda.
1409
01:21:05,020 --> 01:21:06,180
A new large-scale attack is being prepared,
1410
01:21:06,180 --> 01:21:08,480
in order to isolate from the nationalist
1411
01:21:08,480 --> 01:21:10,400
zone the outpost formed
1412
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:11,900
by the city of Terouel.
1413
01:21:15,460 --> 01:21:17,360
40,000 people walk around the city.
1414
01:21:20,750 --> 01:21:23,670
On 19 December, the Republicans arrived
1415
01:21:23,670 --> 01:21:25,510
in the vicinity of Terrouel,
1416
01:21:25,510 --> 01:21:29,030
defended by 10,000 Franco soldiers.
1417
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:35,180
Hemingway goes to the front.
1418
01:21:40,750 --> 01:21:42,530
He is witnessing the battle he
1419
01:21:42,530 --> 01:21:44,150
tells in the newspaper tonight.
1420
01:21:56,580 --> 01:21:58,460
Robert Capin is also on foot
1421
01:21:58,460 --> 01:22:00,480
on December 21.
1422
01:22:02,700 --> 01:22:04,680
He photographs the battles in the
1423
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:06,560
eye and tonight.
1424
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:11,480
Capin joins a detachment of dynamiters
1425
01:22:11,480 --> 01:22:13,360
who undertake a direct attack
1426
01:22:13,360 --> 01:22:15,140
and open a path to
1427
01:22:15,140 --> 01:22:16,100
the grenade.
1428
01:22:32,510 --> 01:22:34,810
Russian T-26 tanks enter the
1429
01:22:34,810 --> 01:22:35,630
city centre.
1430
01:22:39,250 --> 01:22:41,210
On 8 January the Franco garrison
1431
01:22:41,210 --> 01:22:43,590
surrendered and the city was taken.
1432
01:22:46,450 --> 01:22:48,470
To celebrate the victory,
1433
01:22:48,470 --> 01:22:50,290
singer Paul Robson, from the
1434
01:22:50,290 --> 01:22:52,490
United States, performs spiritual
1435
01:22:52,490 --> 01:22:54,410
blacks all night before fighters
1436
01:22:54,410 --> 01:22:56,570
from international brigades.
1437
01:23:32,020 --> 01:23:34,020
This victory has an immense international
1438
01:23:34,020 --> 01:23:36,200
resonance, in Barcelona,
1439
01:23:36,200 --> 01:23:38,800
a monster parade welcomes the takeover
1440
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:39,920
of Teruel.
1441
01:23:45,890 --> 01:23:47,770
But Franco does not want to leave the
1442
01:23:47,770 --> 01:23:49,890
city to the enemy camp, he orders
1443
01:23:49,890 --> 01:23:53,170
to bring back counter-attacks by
1444
01:23:53,170 --> 01:23:55,670
a Siberian cold.
1445
01:23:56,670 --> 01:23:58,530
75,000 nationalist soldiers
1446
01:23:58,530 --> 01:24:00,930
march to attack Republican positions.
1447
01:24:02,210 --> 01:24:06,390
The city has become a symbol.
1448
01:24:10,980 --> 01:24:12,880
The Battle of Teruel with its
1449
01:24:12,880 --> 01:24:14,740
street clashes remains one of
1450
01:24:14,740 --> 01:24:16,940
the most terrible of a terrible war.
1451
01:24:20,210 --> 01:24:21,410
Franco's troops eventually regained
1452
01:24:21,410 --> 01:24:23,370
the city at the cost of 30,000 men's
1453
01:24:23,370 --> 01:24:25,990
losses, one-quarter of which
1454
01:24:25,990 --> 01:24:27,650
due to the cold.
1455
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:32,860
The people are fleeing in a pathetic exodus.
1456
01:24:36,380 --> 01:24:38,340
The Republican General Staff had
1457
01:24:38,340 --> 01:24:40,140
wanted to seize a city without strategic
1458
01:24:40,140 --> 01:24:41,980
interest and which could
1459
01:24:41,980 --> 01:24:43,880
not be defended.
1460
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:46,040
Once again, the best troops
1461
01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:47,620
were sacrificed in vain to finally
1462
01:24:47,620 --> 01:24:49,900
return to their starting
1463
01:24:49,900 --> 01:24:50,820
positions.
1464
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:53,760
The deplorable condition of the survivors,
1465
01:24:54,020 --> 01:24:55,620
physical exhaustion and demoralization
1466
01:24:55,620 --> 01:24:57,600
are the signs of future
1467
01:24:57,600 --> 01:24:59,380
disasters.
1468
01:25:09,740 --> 01:25:11,060
Franco does not allow the Republican
1469
01:25:11,060 --> 01:25:13,020
camp time to breathe.
1470
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:19,040
Just after the Battle of Teruel, he
1471
01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:21,540
launched an offensive that will be
1472
01:25:21,540 --> 01:25:23,340
the beginning of the end for the
1473
01:25:23,340 --> 01:25:23,920
Republic.
1474
01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:30,360
On March 9, 150,000 nationalist
1475
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:32,440
soldiers, supported by 200
1476
01:25:32,440 --> 01:25:35,840
tanks, 600 planes, 700
1477
01:25:36,320 --> 01:25:38,400
guns, attacked a Republican
1478
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:40,060
army on 100 km of front.
1479
01:25:41,060 --> 01:25:43,440
Faced with the digital and military
1480
01:25:43,440 --> 01:25:45,040
superiority of the Franco troops,
1481
01:25:45,440 --> 01:25:46,660
retirement turns into a disaster
1482
01:25:46,660 --> 01:25:48,380
and then a disaster.
1483
01:25:48,820 --> 01:25:50,180
The front is broken.
1484
01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:58,420
The nationalist offensive progresses
1485
01:25:58,420 --> 01:26:00,280
dramatically and reaches
1486
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:01,400
the Mediterranean.
1487
01:26:02,480 --> 01:26:03,540
The remaining part of the republican
1488
01:26:03,540 --> 01:26:05,840
territory is cut into two.
1489
01:26:20,580 --> 01:26:23,260
In 1938, Barcelona was
1490
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:24,920
bombed by the Franco
1491
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:26,240
air force.
1492
01:26:27,460 --> 01:26:29,400
From March 16 to 18, 17 waves
1493
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:31,540
of aircraft, German and Italian,
1494
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:33,120
collide on a city without
1495
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:34,640
DCA.
1496
01:26:44,040 --> 01:26:46,060
The damage is considerable.
1497
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:48,600
1,300 people were killed, provoking
1498
01:26:48,860 --> 01:26:51,720
the indignation of democracies.
1499
01:26:51,820 --> 01:26:54,100
In the Republican camp, the fatigue
1500
01:26:54,100 --> 01:26:55,620
is established.
1501
01:27:03,950 --> 01:27:05,950
In the martyred town, Malraux began
1502
01:27:05,950 --> 01:27:07,810
in July the shooting of a film,
1503
01:27:07,810 --> 01:27:09,930
Sierra de Teruel, inspired
1504
01:27:10,590 --> 01:27:13,010
by the adventure with his squad.
1505
01:27:22,660 --> 01:27:24,880
In the summer of 1938, the
1506
01:27:24,880 --> 01:27:27,100
head of government, Juan Negrin, backed
1507
01:27:27,100 --> 01:27:29,040
by the Communists, believed that the
1508
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:30,840
Republican camp should attract
1509
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:31,940
the attention of the international
1510
01:27:31,940 --> 01:27:33,780
opinion by a great heroic
1511
01:27:33,780 --> 01:27:35,120
action.
1512
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:44,760
They decide on a large offensive
1513
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:45,780
to dismiss the nationalist
1514
01:27:45,780 --> 01:27:47,780
troops from the corridor they occupy
1515
01:27:47,780 --> 01:27:49,920
between the two republican zones.
1516
01:27:51,620 --> 01:27:53,260
The goal is to attack the Ebro.
1517
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:57,680
A military is gathered for
1518
01:27:57,680 --> 01:27:59,400
this battle of the last chance.
1519
01:28:01,100 --> 01:28:02,580
80,000 men are secretly
1520
01:28:02,580 --> 01:28:04,760
driven to the river.
1521
01:28:08,950 --> 01:28:12,050
On the dawn of July 25, 1938,
1522
01:28:12,050 --> 01:28:13,470
Republican troops began crossing
1523
01:28:13,470 --> 01:28:14,170
the Ebro.
1524
01:28:23,020 --> 01:28:25,540
The 14th International Brigade,
1525
01:28:25,540 --> 01:28:27,460
caught under a feeding fire, lost
1526
01:28:27,460 --> 01:28:29,560
1,200 men in 24 hours.
1527
01:28:42,150 --> 01:28:43,790
Other places, the Ebro
1528
01:28:43,790 --> 01:28:45,750
crossing is easier.
1529
01:28:51,020 --> 01:28:52,240
Republican troops advance
1530
01:28:52,240 --> 01:28:53,340
several kilometers
1531
01:28:53,340 --> 01:28:55,280
on the other bank.
1532
01:28:59,220 --> 01:29:00,760
After a week, the first route,
1533
01:29:00,760 --> 01:29:03,200
the offensive is broken, the front
1534
01:29:03,200 --> 01:29:04,360
stabilizes.
1535
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:06,560
Both camps settle and
1536
01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:09,780
dig trunks.
1537
01:29:15,950 --> 01:29:18,010
In early November, Ernest Hemingway
1538
01:29:18,010 --> 01:29:19,830
and Robert Capa, always
1539
01:29:19,830 --> 01:29:21,710
accompanied by Herbert Matthews of
1540
01:29:21,710 --> 01:29:23,550
the New York Times, crossed
1541
01:29:23,550 --> 01:29:24,950
the Ebro to join the front.
1542
01:29:27,420 --> 01:29:29,180
During the journey, the boat
1543
01:29:29,180 --> 01:29:30,880
is carried by the current.
1544
01:29:31,380 --> 01:29:33,420
Hemingway takes the branches and
1545
01:29:33,420 --> 01:29:35,140
manages to bring the boat back to
1546
01:29:35,140 --> 01:29:36,000
the shore.
1547
01:29:39,070 --> 01:29:41,130
Capas follows the battles on
1548
01:29:41,130 --> 01:29:42,930
the Segret radius, an affluent
1549
01:29:42,930 --> 01:29:44,750
of the Ebro, and makes the most
1550
01:29:44,750 --> 01:29:47,090
realistic combat photos of the war.
1551
01:29:52,180 --> 01:29:53,400
After 100 days of terrible
1552
01:29:53,400 --> 01:29:55,340
fighting, the Republicans, piloted
1553
01:29:55,740 --> 01:29:57,500
by more than 300 aircraft, cross
1554
01:29:58,040 --> 01:29:58,800
the Ebro.
1555
01:29:59,740 --> 01:30:00,880
The survivors are reaching their
1556
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:01,900
starting position.
1557
01:30:04,850 --> 01:30:06,350
70,000 Republicans were put out
1558
01:30:06,350 --> 01:30:09,370
of combat, 60,000 on the nationalist side.
1559
01:30:09,710 --> 01:30:13,590
This is the last episode of the
1560
01:30:13,590 --> 01:30:15,370
heroic gesture of the Spanish
1561
01:30:15,370 --> 01:30:17,350
Republic to agony.
1562
01:30:18,540 --> 01:30:20,340
Badly designed, badly executed,
1563
01:30:20,700 --> 01:30:22,140
extended beyond reasonable, the
1564
01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:24,420
offensive on the Ebro is a disaster.
1565
01:30:25,340 --> 01:30:26,260
They leave the last Republican
1566
01:30:26,260 --> 01:30:28,800
bastions unarmed and defenseless.
1567
01:30:31,220 --> 01:30:32,820
The international brigades lost
1568
01:30:32,820 --> 01:30:34,780
in this battle their last material
1569
01:30:34,780 --> 01:30:37,060
and moral strength in vain.
1570
01:30:44,020 --> 01:30:45,440
At the same time as the fate of the
1571
01:30:45,440 --> 01:30:47,060
Spanish war is played on the bloody
1572
01:30:47,060 --> 01:30:49,360
shores of the Ebro, the fate of peace
1573
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:51,520
in Europe is played in Munich.
1574
01:30:52,860 --> 01:30:54,300
The surrender of France and Britain
1575
01:30:54,300 --> 01:30:55,680
to the demands of Hitler,
1576
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:57,380
who wanted to annex the
1577
01:30:57,380 --> 01:30:59,600
Sudetes, ringed the glare of
1578
01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:01,720
the Spanish Republic.
1579
01:31:03,950 --> 01:31:05,690
Stalin learns from this, who has nothing
1580
01:31:05,690 --> 01:31:07,450
to expect from democracies that
1581
01:31:07,450 --> 01:31:09,450
abandon Czechoslovakia to the
1582
01:31:09,450 --> 01:31:11,050
depravity.
1583
01:31:11,370 --> 01:31:13,470
He then emphasizes his replacement
1584
01:31:13,470 --> 01:31:15,430
strategy, the approach to Hitler,
1585
01:31:15,430 --> 01:31:17,910
which he has long thought of.
1586
01:31:22,010 --> 01:31:23,910
The direct consequence of the Munich
1587
01:31:23,910 --> 01:31:26,390
dictates is that in Spain, the RSS
1588
01:31:26,390 --> 01:31:28,090
has moved from a prudent commitment
1589
01:31:28,090 --> 01:31:30,730
to an active disengagement.
1590
01:31:32,180 --> 01:31:33,660
The non-intervention committee in
1591
01:31:33,660 --> 01:31:35,560
London calls for the removal of
1592
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:37,860
foreign volunteers from each camp.
1593
01:31:39,640 --> 01:31:42,720
Juan Negrin announced the unconditional
1594
01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:44,280
withdrawal of the international
1595
01:31:44,280 --> 01:31:46,100
brigades.
1596
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:48,400
At that time, less than 10,000
1597
01:31:48,400 --> 01:31:51,580
volunteers remained in combat.
1598
01:31:56,370 --> 01:31:57,390
The glorious survivors of the
1599
01:31:57,390 --> 01:31:59,530
lost battles of Brunettet, Teruel,
1600
01:31:59,530 --> 01:32:02,050
Levra, are gathered on October
1601
01:32:02,050 --> 01:32:04,750
25 for a ceremony where the head
1602
01:32:04,750 --> 01:32:06,170
of government Juan Negrin and
1603
01:32:06,170 --> 01:32:08,930
André Marty celebrate their
1604
01:32:08,930 --> 01:32:09,730
courage.
1605
01:32:12,020 --> 01:32:14,580
Robert Capa has been capturing his moment
1606
01:32:14,580 --> 01:32:16,440
of emotion on the film.
1607
01:32:40,360 --> 01:32:42,260
His goal immortalizes the face of
1608
01:32:42,260 --> 01:32:44,000
an Italian brigadist.
1609
01:32:52,900 --> 01:32:54,540
On October 28, 1938,
1610
01:32:54,540 --> 01:32:57,260
the parade of farewell
1611
01:32:57,700 --> 01:32:59,580
was held.
1612
01:33:00,140 --> 01:33:01,720
Two years, almost day by day, after
1613
01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:03,980
their triumphant arrival, the international
1614
01:33:03,980 --> 01:33:05,720
brides parade on Diagonal
1615
01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:07,660
Avenue, in the heart of
1616
01:33:07,660 --> 01:33:08,960
Barcelona.
1617
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:17,460
Robert Capa, still well placed, photographs
1618
01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:18,880
the arrival of President
1619
01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:21,300
Assanya and Negrin.
1620
01:33:37,630 --> 01:33:39,070
The passionate throw to men who
1621
01:33:39,070 --> 01:33:41,450
parade you can go proudly
1622
01:33:41,450 --> 01:33:43,830
you are the history you are
1623
01:33:43,830 --> 01:33:47,490
the legend the brigadists
1624
01:33:48,480 --> 01:33:49,640
who had been from all the
1625
01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:51,440
major battles in the east of
1626
01:33:51,440 --> 01:33:54,060
Spain 10,000 dead 8000 missing,
1627
01:33:54,060 --> 01:33:57,640
thousands of wounded.
1628
01:34:06,550 --> 01:34:08,150
Hemingway is witnessing the trial of
1629
01:34:08,150 --> 01:34:09,830
the defeated of history.
1630
01:34:11,150 --> 01:34:12,190
They tear before the spectacle
1631
01:34:12,190 --> 01:34:13,790
of men he describes, dirty, young
1632
01:34:14,690 --> 01:34:16,850
and tired, most of them without
1633
01:34:16,850 --> 01:34:20,350
a homeland to welcome them.
1634
01:34:24,430 --> 01:34:26,370
Malraux, present in the crowd, says
1635
01:34:26,650 --> 01:34:28,850
it was the whole revolution that
1636
01:34:28,850 --> 01:34:31,370
was going away.
1637
01:34:53,860 --> 01:34:55,300
About 5,000 brigade fighters,
1638
01:34:55,300 --> 01:34:57,000
greeted by the Spaniards,
1639
01:34:57,000 --> 01:34:58,940
return to their countries.
1640
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:01,260
They are welcomed in
1641
01:35:01,260 --> 01:35:02,600
France.
1642
01:35:25,540 --> 01:35:29,080
On January 26, 1939, Franco’s troops
1643
01:35:29,080 --> 01:35:31,400
entered Barcelona, where the
1644
01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:32,780
inhabitants seem to have changed
1645
01:35:32,780 --> 01:35:33,660
their camp.
1646
01:35:54,690 --> 01:35:56,450
The remains of the Republican army
1647
01:35:56,450 --> 01:35:57,610
crossed the French border
1648
01:35:57,610 --> 01:36:00,050
and entered the Arons.
1649
01:36:39,560 --> 01:36:42,000
500,000 Spanish refugees are fleeing
1650
01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:46,180
to France in a grievous process of refugees.
1651
01:37:01,240 --> 01:37:02,500
Children and women are hungry,
1652
01:37:02,500 --> 01:37:05,300
hungry, and frightened, lying
1653
01:37:05,540 --> 01:37:07,260
down in the cold of winter.
1654
01:37:22,500 --> 01:37:24,320
The Spanish War is over.
1655
01:37:24,740 --> 01:37:26,680
Franco wins his victory during
1656
01:37:26,680 --> 01:37:28,520
a gigantic parade in Madrid
1657
01:37:28,520 --> 01:37:30,240
that has resisted his assaults
1658
01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:32,680
for so long.
1659
01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:34,540
The French Ambassador, Marshal
1660
01:37:34,540 --> 01:37:37,020
Pétain, attended the parade.
1661
01:37:45,700 --> 01:37:48,060
The French government locked
1662
01:37:48,060 --> 01:37:49,380
the Spanish Republicans in
1663
01:37:49,380 --> 01:37:52,360
camps, in Algerie, Verne,
1664
01:37:52,360 --> 01:37:54,860
Saint-Cyprien, Gurs, in terrible
1665
01:37:54,860 --> 01:37:57,560
material conditions.
1666
01:37:58,970 --> 01:38:01,150
Among them, more than 5,000 anti-
1667
01:38:01,150 --> 01:38:02,990
fascist militants, German,
1668
01:38:03,310 --> 01:38:04,770
Italian, Austrian, Hungarian,
1669
01:38:04,950 --> 01:38:06,530
Polish, who had fled their country
1670
01:38:06,530 --> 01:38:08,690
to fight fascism in the ranks
1671
01:38:08,690 --> 01:38:10,310
of the brigades.
1672
01:38:10,310 --> 01:38:12,990
On August 23, 1939,
1673
01:38:12,990 --> 01:38:16,150
the German-Soviet
1674
01:38:16,150 --> 01:38:18,350
Pact was signed.
1675
01:38:21,170 --> 01:38:22,430
The tragic opportunity for these
1676
01:38:22,430 --> 01:38:24,630
admirable men to question the meaning
1677
01:38:24,630 --> 01:38:27,390
of the sacrifice of their comrades
1678
01:38:27,390 --> 01:38:29,630
left on the land of Spain.
1679
01:38:56,220 --> 01:38:57,660
On the day Franco enters Madrid,
1680
01:38:57,660 --> 01:38:59,760
Ernest and Minouet begin
1681
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:01,260
to write the first pages of “
1682
01:39:01,260 --> 01:39:03,860
For whom does the glass ring?”
1683
01:39:03,860 --> 01:39:05,340
with a feverish pen.
1684
01:39:05,340 --> 01:39:06,140
“”
1685
01:39:06,140 --> 01:39:08,320
In January 1939, John Dos
1686
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:10,880
Passos wrote his novel, The
1687
01:39:10,880 --> 01:39:13,380
Adventure of a Young Man.
1688
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:15,920
His hero, a volunteer of international
1689
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:17,740
briads, accused of treason,
1690
01:39:17,740 --> 01:39:20,380
is sent to death by his communist
1691
01:39:20,380 --> 01:39:21,600
bourgeois.
1692
01:39:22,680 --> 01:39:24,920
In his 1937 novel, L'Espoir, Malraux
1693
01:39:24,920 --> 01:39:27,700
confronts lyrical illusion
1694
01:39:27,700 --> 01:39:29,840
with terrible reality.
1695
01:39:31,560 --> 01:39:33,320
Orwell was a critic of
1696
01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:34,780
the Spanish Communist Party
1697
01:39:34,780 --> 01:39:36,700
in his 1938 book Hommage
1698
01:39:36,700 --> 01:39:39,720
to Catalonia.
1699
01:39:40,780 --> 01:39:43,020
Robert Capa continues his career
1700
01:39:43,020 --> 01:39:44,560
as a photographer.
1701
01:39:45,500 --> 01:39:48,440
He will be at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.
1702
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:51,040
Capa jumped on a mine in Adochine
1703
01:39:51,040 --> 01:39:54,280
in May 1954 and joined Gerda
1704
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Taro, the photographer’s pantheon.
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Mikhail Koltsov, who was recalled in Moscow
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in 1937, disappeared in the purges.
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Almost all Soviets who served
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in Spain were executed upon their
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return.
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