Franco’s Spain: paranoia, conspiracy & antisemitism
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Paul Preston's new book explores the careers of General Franco and six other men who staged a military uprising in July 1936. Inspired by hatred for the Spanish Republic's social and economic reforms, they believed that a Jewish Masonic Bolshevik conspiracy threatened to destroy Spain's Catholic identity. The subsequent civil war that followed claimed 500,000 Spaniards and paved the way for a dictatorship that held fast to this paranoid world view until the mid-1970s.
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