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2006-07-18 Britain
Alun Menai Williams, Spanish civil war veteran, Dies at 93
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Posted by Steve 2006-07-18 09:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Only problem is that it was not a choice between freedom and fascism but between a stalinist dictatorship (1) and Franco's. The difference being that except in the immediate post-war Franco killed few people. A lot fewerf than your average communist dictator

(1) the "republican" government sent all of Spain's gold to Stalin. After the war Spaniards starved because quite simply Spain had zero gold or foreign currency and could buy neither food or industrial products.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2006-07-18 10:54||   2006-07-18 10:54|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a good article/interview with Williams in Military History magazine about 3 or 4 issues ago.
Posted by Dreadnought 2006-07-18 12:54||   2006-07-18 12:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Plug for an old professor friend of mine:

"Hitler's Spanish Legion: The Blue Division in Russia", by Gerald Kleinfeld

An interesting read.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-18 19:02||   2006-07-18 19:02|| Front Page Top

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