“The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 was a class war, and a cultural war. Competing visions of Spanish identity were superimposed on a bitter struggle over material sources, as the defenders of property, religion, and tradition took up arms against a Republican government committed to social reform, devolution, and secularism.”
Frances Lannon, The Spanish Civil War, Oxford, 2002, p.7
Spanish Civil War International Dimension Examination
Who Won the Spanish Civil War Debate
Spanish Civil War Notes: Background notes from U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign English Professor Carly Nelson.
A Spanish Civil War scene, with dead women's bodies on the ground, damaged buildings and bare trees. Hitler, Mussolini and Franco are standing to one side wth a soldier reporting to them "Excellency the Moorish troops are disturbed - they say our conduct of the war is unchristian". In their support of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini were brought closer together and in October 1936 established the Rome-Berlin Axis, an agreement to cooperate on matters of common interest.
| "The Spanish struggle is the fight of reaction against the people, against freedom. My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. How could anybody think for a moment that I could be in agreement with reaction and death? ... In the panel on which I am working, which I shall Guernica, and in all my recent works of art, I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death."- Picasso, speaking in 1937 |
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