Franco did NOT "instigate a civil war". First of all what was instigated was a coup d'état by General in exile Sanjurjo in Salazar's Portugal and his second, General Emilio Mola in Spain. Franco, owing to previous insurrection attempts, had been vanished to the Canary Islands and reluctantly joined de coup d'état which, upon failure, developed into a civil war. Both Sanjurjo and Mola died in separate plane crashes leaving the field open to the ambitions of Franco. But the point is that Franco did not instigate the civil war.
Yeah, this documentary is hardly historically objective. There's many things wrong. One of many was the claim that General Primo de Rivera was deeply influenced by Fascism. Not true. He was a reactionary, steeped in the idea of Church and Crown. His son, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, was a national-syndicalist, and one of the most prominent leaders of the Falange. He later adopted a more fascist platform similar to Mussolini's, but that wasn't until the early 30's, I believe.
No one did back when I was a kid. I think that in America most folks had no idea what was going in Spain at all except that if you were one of the rare people who traveled outside the country, you avoided Spain. All they thought of the Lincoln Brigade, for instance, was that it was named after Lincoln.
The primary driver of the Army's attempted coup was General Mola, not Franco. A lot of people don't realize that Franco was a fence-sitter. Many of the generals thought he wasn't going to come through once the coup started.
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@@MrShaneVicious Sanjurjo was in exile in Portugal but very much in charge. Mola was second in command. Sanjurjo was returning to Spain to head the uprising. His plane crashed due to being overloaded with Sanjurjo's menagerie killing him. Only then Mola took over the uprising. The Republican government had sent the restless generals to far away posts: Franco to the Canaries, Goded to the Balearics and Mola was posted in Navarra, center of the Carlists and the Requetes, a problematic post. However the Carlists had been brought over to the movement by Sanjurjo. Mola could not have been placed in a better post for the coup d'etat.
@@erikthehalfabee6234 Yes. This documentary completely neglects the atrocities committed by the Republicans/communists. They were just a brutal and ruthless as Franco. There were no “good guys” in this war. Terrible. It also fails to mention the support of Stalin’s Soviet Union. It’s impossible for me to choose any side. Both were terrible.
The Anarchists and Syndicalists started fighting with the Communists and Socialists in 1937, and both factions fought the Christian Democrats. That doomed the Republican cause, which still held on for two more years.
@lalremsanga4089 as you say yes Spain took a neutral position officially during World War 2, but 47,000 Spanish volunteers left their homeland to join Germany, Romania, Finland, Croatia, Hungary and of course Italy to take part in Operation Barbarossa(dealing with the threat of the Soviet Union) in June 1941. 2 divisions of Belgian soldiers also participated. This was a pre-emptive strike as the Russians had 170 divisions of soldiers at Germany's eastern front. The Reds were preparing to invade Europe.. which explains why the Axis soldiers captured so many Russian prisoners in the first weeks of the war, because they were gathered there just waiting. None of this is mentioned in the Official history of World War 2, but obviously is in the Hidden secret history..
I'm no expert on this history, but it seems to me that there were a lot of atrocities committed by the republicans, particularly against non combatants, which are pretty much skipped over here. And the Soviet Union was supporting the republicans.
Spain lost a lot of dominance on the seas to Britain well before 1898. May 1588 for one, and October 1805 for another. 1898 might have been the last straw, but they were hardly the dominant sea power at that time.
If you watched the documentary the commenter stated that a family growing up on a naval base could see Spain as a dominant power at sea but after 1898 this wasn't possible to see any longer.
Of course Britain always looked for help to the US...Many countries out of jealousy joined against Spain...You need to really read real history...Not the crap England and the US feeds everyone...
The loss of The Philippines and Cuba to the US in 1898 was the end of Spain's overseas empire and a massive national humiliation. True, Spain had been in decline since 1808, but it could still claim to be a world power until 1898.
October 1805? Spain had lost its position as a dominant naval power long before that and it wasn’t in 1588. Look up “The Scandal of the Downs”. That was in 1639 and that marked the end of Spanish dominance at sea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Downs?wprov=sfti1
I find it very one-sided. Not a word is said about the brutalities performed by the socialists and anarchists which ran the Republic (Paracuellos and the 7,000 priests murdered for example).
The attack on Guernica being the first total Destruction of a city in the history of warfare? Allow me to introduce you to what Rome did the Carthage and what Sherman did to Atlanta.
The documentary said it was the first total destruction of an ~unprotected~ town. I don't know if that claim is true for every war in all of history, but I do know that Carthage isn't a counterexample: The Romans had to besiege Carthage, and even after they broke its defenses the Carthaginians fought street by street. The Romans destroyed it, but Carthage wasn't unprotected.
@@trouserarmadillo8616 The first deliberate artillery attacks on civilians was by the Union forces in the US Civil War. Those artillery shells drop from the sky...that's attack from the air.
He is why my great grandparents on my mom's side left Spain and moved to Cuba but when Castro came out of the mountains they moved to the USA but a few siblings moved to mexico as they did not want to deal with the racism of the USA !!+
Chevy Chase, I met him during that SNL season in a sports grill in Greenwich Village NYC. I was 12. Dan Akroyd and John Belushi were with him in a booth.
@@hugolindum7728 LOL, coup d'états have been featured in politics since antiquity. A coup is only illegal if it fails. Then the coup plotters are tried for treason which in most countries is a capital offence. If it succeeds though, then it means the usurpers are now in power and make their own rules. Let me repeat that for you: A coup is only illegal if it fails. Planning one is treason, but if it succeeds, it is a patriotic act (until someone else overthrows you). In fact, that is how America was founded; you overthrew the government you had at the time. So your "argument" is moot.
Not really. No one is a fan of Marxism nowadays.But eriously, what is great about Catholicism anyway? The authoritarianism? The scapegoating of marginalized folks? The desire to control other people? You have to admit that love of simplistic Fascism seems to be making a comeback among some politicians. You know, those fake 'family values' people who are quite wiling to scapegoat anyone in the category of 'other'? Franco's nationalists were all about that.
I spent a lot of time in Spain on the south coast in an old Ford Thames van , during the early 1970s , the happiest healthiest time of my life, with Franco in charge, it was safe and perfect !!! Mel Watler ---
Fascism is the best system for humanity. People only remember the war state of fascism and forget that both the Third Reich & Italy were the best places to be before the great war.
Really? What I remember is how most people were poor. They had no freedom of speech or press and elections were a joke. The Guadia Civil didn't need warrants to invade your home and or apartment. Granted, Spain was fairly safe. I hitch hiked the whole country but not without being accosted a couple of times and once almost raped. As well, the newspapers couldn't print most crimes. I could write a lot more about the mistreatment of people, especially women. Now they have freedom. Still, I love Spain and in my heart she is my second home.
Thanks for the Documentary, however I am puzzled by the Title. I have lived and worked in Spain, and I can assure you that the Dictatorship is far from forgotten, where people living in the same street are at loggerheads and won't even speak to each other because of what army their families fought with. This is also true for members of the same family. They know intimately who was who, and who did what. No Sir, Franco and his era are still very much a part of modern Spain.
The most telling difference between the Nationalists and the Republicans was how many prisoners each side released when the war was over. Franco released far more than the Republicans, not because he had far more, but because the Republicans (Socialist/Communist) preferred to murder the majority of their prisoners. Other than that, I'm sure they were wonderful people.
The most telling difference is that the Republicans were communists (not a threat today) and the Nationalists were fascists - very much a threat today since wannabe authoritarian fanboys are crawling out from under their rocks to praise Franco and others like him.
Evidence ? That sounds extremely dubious. Sources, please. I’ve yet to have read any such wild claims outside of the ramblings issued by Franco apologists. And / or shameless devotees of the Axis ‘powers’.
Many didn't get to be prisoners but we're murdered ..like the little children and all the outspoken intellectuals and journalists the Nationalists killed.
I'd assume they were dangerous to let go and from what I'm seeing you can't get the fascist virus out of a person once they're contaminated. It's literally like that The Walking Dead up in here , the us. But they are diseased with conspiracy, denial, fanatacism, simple answers and above every lazy cerebral activity
@@Antares2F Sadly the narrative that prevails in Spain is that Franco is the bad guy and the lefties were the nice people. When I check the history of the 2nd Spanish Republic I wonder why the military waited so long to rebel. It''s true they had a first attempt to rebellion which failed, but then I find they waited too long for the second attempt.
That's so true, because both sides had civilian deaths, a Civil War, but it's what kinds of unarmed people targeted and killed by Communists, men women and children, Catholic clergy, or just for wearing Catholic Christian symbols, having them in the homes, and the other side was because collaboration, and also because caught up in any areas that were trying to get rid of armed enemies. Didn't go around in trucks rounding up innocent people for slaughter. Didn't go in homes to rob and murder, as marauders, especially having doormen sold to their side, and out of envy and what knew that had in the homes, did so. Didn't go in churches and convents, monasteries, to do the same and burn them down. The same way about any type of businesss and factories. Here shown how Franco's troops were seen as saviors, because the populations were being starved to death into submission and rendition. Spain lost a million people in that war. My family was quite fortunate because only lost family members if military, or because of the conditions under. On the other hand, know families that lost dozens of family members, one over thirty family members. That's because also targeted nobles. Cutting fingers off of the murdered, if couldn't get rings off of their fingers. Thoughts on what types of people in the world naturally have the most prolific brutal carnage mafioso thug mentalities, regardless of races, BEFORE interventions by other types of people. God knows, but that's just a why type of way of putting it all.
Yes, with both men and materials. Not the biggest succes but they certainly helped alot. The German and Italian involvement is largely due to one big fact, the Republicans recieved donations while the Nationalists borrowed money. Getting things donated seems better, but if you need to pay it back the person lending the money has in interest in your survival. So the Germans and Italians became more and more involved after a while to make sure they actually get their investment back.
Yes, but do not expect those other nations involved to be mentioned...As per them Franco was the worst...All pure rubbish...I lived in Spain when Franco was in power...It was the most peaceful time of my life...
I was born in Spain and lived in Spain under Franco's rule and while I do not take away whatever wrongs he did, the time I lived there before 1975 was the safest...Crime was 0 %...Children could stay out in the streets even after dark....Many people got their two flat houses with back and front yards at very low prices...Ridiculously low...Spain under Franco prospered in a decade while it took other European countries 40 years to do... Spain became the 10th most powerful country in the world...Look at Spain now under Pedro Sánchez...They should be talking about him instead...He is the worst president ever...
“Time’s running out for Generalissimo Francisco Franco .” Chevy Chase used that line on Saturday Night Live even after Franco died in 1975, just short of 83.
27:29 When Franco asks his daughter to "tell the children in Germany whatever she likes", he whispers in her ear what she should say. You can clearly see his lips moving - what a ridiculous scene!
Forgotten? Every single Spanish novel of the last 60 years, and movies, is about him and his life, he's the least forgotten figure in spanish History, it's just like an unabated mania!
Franco was a hero who save Spain from the red revolution, he use the fascist and the Condor legion to defeat the reds. The reich do not reach his objetives to occupie Gibaltrar, Franco inclusive helped Patton in North Africa.
Very interessting! The document from Richthofen, (Shown @45:56) says very clearly, that Guernica was RAISED TO THE GROUND by SPANISH GROUND FORCES, namely by the "5.th Brigade", which was sent by somebody whos name was "Oviedo". On the next Page 122, also shown in the video, it reads "all people where evacuated before all Monestrys, private and public buildings where torched. It was done by throwing fuel canisters through the lowest windows of these buildings. These Buildings where very tight, 4-5 floors with large wooden strucures inside, which burn very easily... " the ONLY part on this page, which is highlighted and discussed in the video, is Richthofens mentioning that "it was interresting to see these building collapse". What is not mentioned and completly IGNORED however, is that very "unimportant" detail, written directly above, that the destruction of guernica was mainly done, by HAND, by the troops on the ground.
The 18/7/1936 coup plot was enabled by the British Secret Service, generally referred to as MI6. the aeroplane that flew Franco from Tenerife to North Africa was a British plane provided by MI5, flown by two ex British Army officers with connections toMI6 . They had flown down to Lisbon supposedly on a holiday with their girlfriends and, leaving the girls had flown onto Tenerife to pick up Franco.
Bullshit. An ABC journalist based in London rented the plane for Joan March, who financed the coup. They offered free travel to an ex British army office (and his family) in order to avoid suspicion.
@@mussaranya Yeah, facts show you're naive. Despite the fact that British supported Franco's side, it was not Franco who planned and initiated the coup. More probably, the conspirators asked the support of the British government, who saw in the Republic a menace to their own interests in Spain. It is the eternal HIPOCRICY of the extreme right everywhere, supposedly "nationalist", but asking foreign powers to intervene and give aid in the killing of their own people.
Although Franco lived in 1936 in Tenerife (the seat of his post as capitan general of the Canaries) the plane never landed in Tenerife. The military governor of Gran Canaria died in a gun-related accident (?), so that Franco, strictly watched by the civil authorities of the republic, left Tenerife with his wife and daughter to attend the governor’s funeral in Las Palmas. It was from Gran Canaria’s airfield in Gando from which Franco flew to Spanish Morocco, while his wife and daughter sailed in a French liner to avoid the risks of the putsch in case of failure.
Sorry but one needs to be Spanish and have lived under Franco's regimen to know the truth...I did, and this video is a piece of garbage...My safest time on earth was under Franco's dictatorship...Look at the so called "democracy" of the supposedly free countries of the western world...Democracy, true democracy doesn't exist...Only naive and uninformed people believe such a fairy tale...Spaniards under a dictatorship were freer than American people are these days and the same is true for many other nations...
At the start the narrator briefly mentions priest were assassinated by the left, then at the end of this video he asks how Franco’s wife felt over the deaths on the left. Did the narrator answer his own question in reverse?
Franco kept Spain out of the Soviet Orbit, kept Spain out of WWII, and forged Spain into a modern state. All this came at high cost, and considerable suffering, to those who opposed The National Movement.
Spooky, you called it the National Movememt😲 over here the wannabe dictator calls it something like Bramdon or Maga or something. I don't pay attention, he's "touched" and I wouldn't watch to embarrassed his family by trying to take him seriously
@@joeblow3990oMG WHERE you been this s...is really scary. So even after being f.. over constituents will idolize their victimizer What the f... are we gonna do over here
@@joeblow3990That's not true , feudalism died in Spain hundreds of years ago. The country were real feudalism lasted the longest was Russia , until the 1700s when Peter the Great modernized them.
@@danrooc Even that church apologized and admitted to their wrongdoings during the Spanish Civil War and allowed for Franco's exhumation. The church washed their hands of Franco, the Nationalists and YOU. Lol
This series is amazing!! Can we get one on Antonio Salazar of Portugal? Many people are divided on him and I find Portuguese history fascinating (but difficult to find documentaries on).
Franco has not been forgotten. He is still very much alive in Spain's collective memory. Stop spreading falsehoods. Questioning the paternity of his daughter is preposterous. Shame, Franco haters...
At about 4:15 there's a guy speculating what Franco might have seen as a boy and then concluding that this had a great impact on his life, without any discussion of what that is. This is poor history
Point of order, your honour! There is no such thing as "the Spanish Foreign Legion". It's just The Spanish Legion. No foreigners there. Spain is not France.
This represents a huge gap in the history of the second world war that is almost always neglected. As a young man I was an enthusiast for Bultaco motorcycles. The frames were made of very inferior metals. You had to reinforce them in strategic places. This was a result of no nation in the world being willing to trade military raw materials with spain. I think that this is true to this very day.
@@fgoogleinthea7475 to understand the point of my comment requires an IQ thats higher than luke warm. The point is that spain remained a pariah long after ww2. By the way luke warm is about 85 degrees which is about what I estimate your IQ to be. If your lucky. And please, please do not ask me to explain to you what a pariah is.
@@fgoogleinthea7475 if you didn't get the very clear and easy to grasp point of my comment, im wondering who typed the response you left. It couldn't have been you.
Exactly. Read "The Portuguese Seaborne Empire." Written by the late Charles R. Boxer. He was still alive when I wrote my Master's Thesis in the matter of Portuguese colonization of India. Also, read the remarkable essay, written by Evelyn Waugh, English convert to the Catholic Church in 1952. Upon the occasion of the last public exhibit of the relics of St. Francis Xavier." At Goa, India. Somerset Maugham also has some interesting comments concerning the vast empty churches of Goa and other Portuguese outposts along the South - West Coast of India. In the late 19th and early 20th century. The churches were nearly empty. But the priests nonetheless "kept the sacrifice" of the Holy Mass. To the end. The title of Waugh's essay is: "St Xavier's Bones." In his essay however, he addresses, briefly, the Portuguese Colonial achievement in India and South - East Asia: "The Portuguese Went First and Went Farther." And the first European to set foot in Mainland China was an Portuguese Jesuit Priest..
nobody forgot franco.. its just only anglo perspective thinking that history just passed not in latin world.. im from argentina. and we know alot about franco..
Einstein, or someone, said, "The greatest indicator of genius is knowing when to stop." By this standard, Franco takes the prize. He used Germany and Italy to get in power, but stayed out of WWII except for the Blue Division in the Soviet Union. He allowed escaped Allied prisoners and shot down aircrew to go through Spain to get out. He kept connections to the victorioius Allied powers and Spain transitioned into a holiday destination and NATO membership. He had a weak hand and played it well. Hardly mentioned is George Orwell's exerience in Spain, the purge of the POUM non-Stalinist but still Commmunist faction, or the ever- tightening grip of Soviet security. Also not metioned is that most of the Soviets who were in Spain were purged by Joseph Stalin on their return to the USSR.
This is a ZDF channel which is a left-wing public TV station. They will tell the brutal truth about right-wing regimes but minimize the brutality and danger from left-wing regimes.
Little Carmen was obviously reading from a script held beside the camera 😂. The usual 🙄 😅 In Egypt, no one can challenge our dictators. The suffering is immense.
@@mike7gerald yeah! She looked nit happy too, she knew in her heart, as she was still a pure soul, that she was doing wrong!I can't believe Spain was actually a brutal dictatorship until the 70s. I don't know why we in this part of the world are not capable of changing our destiny!! Makes me very sad!
What a shame of documentary. You just can't fool everybody, in particular those who lived in that time. The documentary is full of half truth and plain lies. And from time to time some truth. It's a same that so many people who didn't know anything about this will get a wrong idea of those happenings.
I spent 3-1/2 years in Spain in the early 70s as a sailor on a USN sub tender. I found southern Spain to be poor but with no crime. I was never hasled while traveling around the country by police or Guardia Civil. Franco was still in power. Recently I looked at Rota and Chipiona on google earth and found graffiti on the buildings. That never happened under Franco.
@@pilsudski36 In those days no country ran on time...Technology was really obsolete and still is..I know what the elites possess and they keep it from us the little people...
Franco did his duty to the monarchy to the end. Too bad Juan Carlos mucked everything up he had been given on a silver platter. "No Catholic may assent to a Constitution- to any Constitution- especially when it is imposed where one did not exist before...Even when the Constitution begins with an express affirmation of Catholicity, it has to be rejected by Catholics. The first Constitution invented in Spain - that of 1812- read, 'The religion of the Spanish nation is and will always be the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman and only True one. The nation will protect it through wise and just laws and will prohibit the exercise of any other (Article 12)'. And yet our elders rejected it as impious and seditious...Why? Because a Constitution is a concept - as well an institution- born of the French revolutionary Convention, and is understood as an act that constitutes the nation on behalf of national sovereignty or 'popular will'. This national sovereignty or popular will pretend to be substitutes...for the Grace of God and God Himself as the principle and basis for legislation and political order. All that is written in a Constitution is done so as a convention or construct of human will, never as a recognition of something which exists by itself and that transcends that act of will. The very affirmation of the Catholicity of the State- even of religious unity- meant in prior constitutions not a recognition of the existence of God and His law, but an expression of popular will in its constituent action." - Rafael Gambra Ciudad
He actually murdered a lot of people AFTER the civil war and placed the country in isolation. He had way more blood on his hands than Castro. Also, an interesting thing nobody talks about: how comes his family has become so wealthy that his daughter died as one of the wealthiest women of Spain? Must have been a lot of honest work I guess.
@@KPW2137 You only follow what you hear...Read the true history...I lived under Franco's regimen and Fidel Castro was much worst...but the US couldn't control him...although they tried...Franco reached out to other countries...unlike Castro...
Oh I've read. And TBH, I've met in my life quite a few people who said great things about Stalin, about Mao, and some other places after living under their regimes@@amparoalvarez9001
Yeah, Franco was a disgusting dictator. That doesn't mean anyone is saying Stalin was wonderful. Reichwing sympathizers really must be simplistic thinkers if that's the take..."buh buh but.....what about the USSR??????".
@@steves2664 I remember that one...I am a Spaniard and I know this video is a piece of crap...My time in Spain under Franco's regimen was the most peaceful one of my life..
Democracy standing up to the fascist nazis…. The coalition of socialist communist and anarchist for back. Hmmm, yeah so in other words not a coalition for democracy. So thank you General Franco for saving Spain. He also protected Spain from BOTH sides in ww2. This film is filthy and more important a factually inaccurate film. Multiple inaccuracies of easy to google facts.
@@roelkomduur8073 on the contrary, why wasn’t there any mention of the Soviets involvement in the Republican government? There were atrocities committed by the Communists as well. If you value the “truth”, there should have been a more thorough analysis of Franco and what he faced.
Franco & his fellow generals did a military coup vs an elected goverment. When it fialed they dragged Spain through three (3) years of civil war. Then unleashed terror on polical opponents after the war. Later they said "oh it was to stop the copmmunists from taking power". It must hav ebeen quite athreat worth a cvil war and 35 years of his dicatorship (bringS pain to starvation at one point)....
@@peterrandall9523 My daughter’s in-laws are Russian- grandma is 86 and she was telling me of the horrors of the Stalin era, she said one night the secret police showed up and took her older brother- he was tortured so bad he was never right again- Franco had similar tactics- but the alternative was worse- they were executing people with crucifix in the streets
It doesn’t matter whether you have a right or left wing dictator in power, any totalitarian state will torture and kill its opposition. Supreme control brings out the evil in them. Stalin killed more people than Franco, but they were both torturing and killing up until they expired. I have no fondness for either, but I did have acquaintances who were in the International Brigades and I still hold them in high esteem, as I do anybody who opposes Fascism….
@@peterrandall9523Franco was nothing like Stalin , in fact he was preventing Stalin from taking over Spain. During Franco's Spain there were no Gulags , no concentration camps , no purges , no 20 million people murdered.
@@muir8009 Jajaja...Because Franco was a threat to the USSR?...Really? Communists doing what they've always done, spread their sick ideology worldwide.
@@Harry-q2q6yWhat? The Republic was made of numerous factions and dissolved because if in fighting. Orwell said on his death bed that his heart will always be with the democrat socialists of the Republic.
@@asturiasceltic3183 The officials within the Republic that made all major decisions. Please read George Orwell's 'Homage To Catalonia' for a better understanding of the political infighting
@@Harry-q2q6y Haha. I read it. And my family knew Orwell during the Spanish Civil War when they were all journalists.. And you? I don't.need your puny second source reference.
@kynismos truly a "good catholic" with the blood of many on his hands. Franco was a murderer wishing to kill half his country for his ungodly causes. The Bible says no murder has eternal life. Sadly he died and went to hell.
Why do people say “forgotten” dictatorship. No one who cracked a book will forget major events of history. We know exactly who Francisco Franco was, It’s not our fault that the younger generation has the attention span of a housefly due to Tik Tok and can’t learn anything except diversity quotas
There are so many mistakes and cliches. Even easy to research facts like Spain was in the risk of losing it’s only colony…. Yeah it was not the only colony. Also, this is obviously a hit piece. Obliviously they didn’t bother to read his autobiography.
I only watched half way, it is not only very bad documentary but also incomplete and bias. They completely forget the surrounding geopolitics in Europe at the time. My father and grandparents lived in Franco’s Spain and loved him because my grandmother lost one brother and two sister murdered by the communist, disguised like La Republica. They saw Franco as the savior of their own lives and of Spain. I understand that other families suffered just the opposite, truth is not black and white but depends on your perspective.
Guernica was NOT; "the first unprotected town to be destroyed in the history of warfare". What an utterly stupid statement. That type of thing in all wars from time immemorial was/is part and parcel of wars between humans.
As bad as Franco may seem to people today, Stalin was a thousand times worse. Given an impossible choice between Fascism and Stalin, Fascism was the far lesser evil.
Very narrow-minded explanation of this process. So Communists were “angels” from your view? Any stories about their atrocities? Don’t consider myself as “Fashist advocate”, they and Franco were evil, but were objective view? What about political failure of left forces, especially on economy?
If "enigmatic" means he was a mystery to the Spanish, or "hard to figure out" forget it. The Republicans had him figured out all right, and died fighting his troops or were imprisoned, and tortured, or executed, and after the war were punished with joblessness, thereby starving their families, by a small minded, vicious and very vengeful reactionary Francisco Franco, whose family was extremely venal and proprietary about that which belonged to others. In other words they were THIEVES. ~ Antonio Perales del Hierro
The writing and editing of this "documentary" is very left slanting. It ignored the well-known and well-documented effective work of the USSR in subverting various moderate and leftist groups in Spain. By 1934 Stalin was effectively running most of the left in Spain (as well as in France). Franco did not initiate the 17 July 1936 Nationalist rebellion against what was left of the chaotic communist-sabotaged Republican government of Spain. The rebellion was lead by "The Lion of the Rif", exiled Lieutenant General José Sanjurjo y Sacanel..When the charismatic Sanjurjo was killed in a plane crash on 20 July 1936 on his way to Spain from Portugal the not-at-all charismatic General Molar became the leader of the Nationalist forces. Franco became military and political leader of the rebellion on 1 October 1936.
Franco Who like all the other military in the coup ignored results of a democratic election and pushed a progressive reformist left of centre government into the hands of communists and oblivion. Shame on UK for our shocking role in non intervention. At least the French tried, despite us.
A fair old chunk of the International Brigaders from Britain came from Liverpool. Without excusing many Republican atrocities, Franco was a cruel man, pitted against a democratically elected Government.
Could you produce something about Salazar please? Professor Preston, an excellent contributor to this presentation might know about Franco's neighbour.. ☘👿 Tasmania.
The Alcazar in Toledo was held by Cornel Moscardo, the head of the Guardia Civil of Toledo, who lost his son, when his son was taken hostage by the republican militias then asking the cornel to surrender the Alcazar in exchange for his sons life. The last words of the father to his son: “I love you my son with all my heart and I know you will die like a man, long live Spain.” - his son:”I love you too my father” - then the son was shot - this exchange had been taped, including the shot, and can be listened to when visiting the Alcazar. (When I visited the Alcazar, I was moved by this event, as the office of Cornel Moscardo has been left untouched and in its original state since this event) The Guardian Civil was loyal to the military, not to the Second Republic and was holding out against the troops loyal to the republican government. The men you see in min. 32:28 are in fact the defenders who were using balearic slings to launch grenades made from church door ornaments. Toledo was also not relieved by Franco, but by the troops of General Jose Enrique Varela (commanding General of the 30,000 strong National Volunteers Corps, an Africa veteran and a graduate of the military academy of Toledo) and Franco only visited the day after the 70 days siege was lifted. The national military was seen as the liberators who came in the hour of greatest need when the defenders were about to make their last stand. In the report it was made to look as if Franco got out of his way to conquer Toledo, to flatten the Alcazar and as if the Alcazar was defending against him. That is factual incorrect.
Franco did NOT "instigate a civil war". First of all what was instigated was a coup d'état by General in exile Sanjurjo in Salazar's Portugal and his second, General Emilio Mola in Spain. Franco, owing to previous insurrection attempts, had been vanished to the Canary Islands and reluctantly joined de coup d'état which, upon failure, developed into a civil war. Both Sanjurjo and Mola died in separate plane crashes leaving the field open to the ambitions of Franco. But the point is that Franco did not instigate the civil war.
Yeah, this documentary is hardly historically objective. There's many things wrong. One of many was the claim that General Primo de Rivera was deeply influenced by Fascism. Not true. He was a reactionary, steeped in the idea of Church and Crown. His son, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, was a national-syndicalist, and one of the most prominent leaders of the Falange. He later adopted a more fascist platform similar to Mussolini's, but that wasn't until the early 30's, I believe.
@@ZackEdwards1234 rubbish video
Are you sure about that?
@@barryguyer8174 yes
That is correct, we have to remember that this media broadcaster is leftist ALL THE WAY, they love murderers such as Che Guevara and Castro.
It's odd that the narration doesn't mention the Soviet Union's participation on the side of the Republic.
This is an extremely biased documentary.
No one did back when I was a kid. I think that in America most folks had no idea what was going in Spain at all except that if you were one of the rare people who traveled outside the country, you avoided Spain. All they thought of the Lincoln Brigade, for instance, was that it was named after Lincoln.
@@chipcook5346 But in reality it was full of home-grown American communists.
Because Hooknose made this film.
It's because communism is the only true ideology.
The primary driver of the Army's attempted coup was General Mola, not Franco. A lot of people don't realize that Franco was a fence-sitter. Many of the generals thought he wasn't going to come through once the coup started.
And Sanjurjo.
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@@msotil9828 while Sanjurjo was a key figure, he was in exile in Portugal. Mola was an active General which allowed him to set things up.
@@MrShaneVicious Sanjurjo was in exile in Portugal but very much in charge. Mola was second in command. Sanjurjo was returning to Spain to head the uprising. His plane crashed due to being overloaded with Sanjurjo's menagerie killing him. Only then Mola took over the uprising. The Republican government had sent the restless generals to far away posts: Franco to the Canaries, Goded to the Balearics and Mola was posted in Navarra, center of the Carlists and the Requetes, a problematic post. However the Carlists had been brought over to the movement by Sanjurjo. Mola could not have been placed in a better post for the coup d'etat.
Franco was a hero. His main downfall was in not grooming a next leader.
For a video titled "The Truth..." there were many factual errors in it.
The video is crap. A pile of opinion, error and inflated moral judgment.
Beginning with the title "Spain's forgotten Dictatorship"
Satrting with the lie that Franco called for a cup de etat!
Could you list a few?
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Yes. This documentary completely neglects the atrocities committed by the Republicans/communists. They were just a brutal and ruthless as Franco. There were no “good guys” in this war. Terrible. It also fails to mention the support of Stalin’s Soviet Union.
It’s impossible for me to choose any side. Both were terrible.
The leftist factions were fighting each other as well, and the anarchists fought everybody.
Exactly what happened
No, everybody fought the anarchists.
The Anarchists and Syndicalists started fighting with the Communists and Socialists in 1937, and both factions fought the Christian Democrats. That doomed the Republican cause, which still held on for two more years.
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Orwell!
He was clever enough not to join the Axis thus saving Spain from destruction
Your comments are interesting.@@dermotanthonydavidkyne1019
@@dermotanthonydavidkyne1019 spoken like a true fascist and anti-semite.
@lalremsanga4089 as you say yes Spain took a neutral position officially during World War 2, but 47,000 Spanish volunteers left their homeland to join Germany, Romania, Finland, Croatia, Hungary and of course Italy to take part in Operation Barbarossa(dealing with the threat of the Soviet Union) in June 1941. 2 divisions of Belgian soldiers also participated. This was a pre-emptive strike as the Russians had 170 divisions of soldiers at Germany's eastern front. The Reds were preparing to invade Europe.. which explains why the Axis soldiers captured so many Russian prisoners in the first weeks of the war, because they were gathered there just waiting. None of this is mentioned in the Official history of World War 2, but obviously is in the Hidden secret history..
What could Spain have offered the Axis? No Navy, no Air Force and no economy
He was clever enough to listen to Canares, who advised him to reject Hitlers overtures.
I'm no expert on this history, but it seems to me that there were a lot of atrocities committed by the republicans, particularly against non combatants, which are pretty much skipped over here. And the Soviet Union was supporting the republicans.
Said like a proper fascist trying to gloss over Francos fascism
Correct. They burned the churches and convents and killed over 5000 priests and nuns.
Yeah this documentary was made by some old tea bagger wokies.
Exactly, this the the truth about Franco according to the leftists and socialist woke, all bollocks
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Said like a proper commie trying to gloss over Stalin's reign of death, famine and misery...
How is Franco even remotely forgotten about?
He saved Spain from the Communists.
Like everything else an every other person before him. History fades away
Never forgotten, he lives on in the heart of a thankful nation.
Kind of overshadowed by the German with the little mustache
I'm just saying he isn't forgotten by the Spanish or anyone with just a smattering of knowledge of European history.
Spain lost a lot of dominance on the seas to Britain well before 1898. May 1588 for one, and October 1805 for another. 1898 might have been the last straw, but they were hardly the dominant sea power at that time.
If you watched the documentary the commenter stated that a family growing up on a naval base could see Spain as a dominant power at sea but after 1898 this wasn't possible to see any longer.
Of course Britain always looked for help to the US...Many countries out of jealousy joined against Spain...You need to really read real history...Not the crap England and the US feeds everyone...
1588? LOL
The loss of The Philippines and Cuba to the US in 1898 was the end of Spain's overseas empire and a massive national humiliation. True, Spain had been in decline since 1808, but it could still claim to be a world power until 1898.
October 1805? Spain had lost its position as a dominant naval power long before that and it wasn’t in 1588. Look up “The Scandal of the Downs”. That was in 1639 and that marked the end of Spanish dominance at sea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Downs?wprov=sfti1
I find it very one-sided. Not a word is said about the brutalities performed by the socialists and anarchists which ran the Republic (Paracuellos and the 7,000 priests murdered for example).
How long were the Republicans in power? How many murders?
How long was Franco in power? How many murders.
There's your answer.
The were all pedos is what Evangelicals claim about Catholics… Must be true of Cult-45 claims something…
✡️ written documentaries tend to skip over the important details.
Shalom
@@user-pn3im5sm7k they dont want to contradict the lf-ist narrative...
The attack on Guernica being the first total Destruction of a city in the history of warfare? Allow me to introduce you to what Rome did the Carthage and what Sherman did to Atlanta.
Perhaps he meant by air?
General Sherman: “Toss away one lousy cigar before it’s out and everybody calls you a firebug.”
The documentary said it was the first total destruction of an ~unprotected~ town. I don't know if that claim is true for every war in all of history, but I do know that Carthage isn't a counterexample: The Romans had to besiege Carthage, and even after they broke its defenses the Carthaginians fought street by street. The Romans destroyed it, but Carthage wasn't unprotected.
@@trouserarmadillo8616 The first deliberate artillery attacks on civilians was by the Union forces in the US Civil War. Those artillery shells drop from the sky...that's attack from the air.
Confederates burned Atlanta.
He is why my great grandparents on my mom's side left Spain and moved to Cuba but when Castro came out of the mountains they moved to the USA but a few siblings moved to mexico as they did not want to deal with the racism of the USA !!+
Hope they enjoyed the "racism" in Mexico better, and the crime and corruption.
"... and in other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL dead."
That quote from SNL was played out in 1970s.
Chevy Chase, I met him during that SNL season in a sports grill in Greenwich Village NYC. I was 12. Dan Akroyd and John Belushi were with him in a booth.
“There is no mute history. No matter how much is destroyed or lied about. Human history will not shut its voice”. Eduardo Galeano
He is delusional if he believed that. There are countless historical incidents suppressed from any knowledge
I don't think anyone in Spain has forgotten Franco's dictatorship.
A lot of us remember Franco as our savior from Communism.
Many people remember Franco quite fondly. And for good reason.
@@l.t.m.a.6968 You cannot be a criminal if what you were doing at the time was not a criminal act as defined by law.
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Franco was breaking the law by the coup detat.
@@hugolindum7728 LOL, coup d'états have been featured in politics since antiquity. A coup is only illegal if it fails. Then the coup plotters are tried for treason which in most countries is a capital offence. If it succeeds though, then it means the usurpers are now in power and make their own rules.
Let me repeat that for you: A coup is only illegal if it fails. Planning one is treason, but if it succeeds, it is a patriotic act (until someone else overthrows you).
In fact, that is how America was founded; you overthrew the government you had at the time. So your "argument" is moot.
Filmmaker:
•Franco is bad!
Also:
•Marxism and anti-Catholicism good!
Not really. No one is a fan of Marxism nowadays.But eriously, what is great about Catholicism anyway? The authoritarianism? The scapegoating of marginalized folks? The desire to control other people? You have to admit that love of simplistic Fascism seems to be making a comeback among some politicians. You know, those fake 'family values' people who are quite wiling to scapegoat anyone in the category of 'other'? Franco's nationalists were all about that.
EXACTLY !!!
This are the same people that hate Donald Trump and love the Democrat party.
Based
Biased, it must be financed by the BBC.
I spent a lot of time in Spain on the south coast in an old Ford Thames van , during the early 1970s , the happiest healthiest time of my life, with Franco in charge, it was safe and perfect !!! Mel Watler ---
Fascism is the best system for humanity.
People only remember the war state of fascism and forget that both the Third Reich & Italy were the best places to be before the great war.
Pedro Almodovar says differently
Really? What I remember is how most people were poor.
They had no freedom of speech or press and elections were a joke.
The Guadia Civil didn't need warrants to invade your home and or apartment.
Granted, Spain was fairly safe. I hitch hiked the whole country but not without being accosted a couple of times and once almost raped. As well, the newspapers couldn't print most crimes.
I could write a lot more about the mistreatment of people, especially women.
Now they have freedom.
Still, I love Spain and in my heart she is my second home.
Yeah, you must think Nazis are pretty nifty too, huh?
In the late 1960's, young and longhaired, hitchhiked around Spain where the Guardia Civil went out of their way to make life intolerable.
Thanks for the Documentary, however I am puzzled by the Title. I have lived and worked in Spain, and I can assure you that the Dictatorship is far from forgotten, where people living in the same street are at loggerheads and won't even speak to each other because of what army their families fought with. This is also true for members of the same family. They know intimately who was who, and who did what. No Sir, Franco and his era are still very much a part of modern Spain.
Seems clear that this video being in English it is not addressed to an audience in Spain.
A Jurgen Klopp diss was definitely
not on my bingo card
That was such a bizarre analogy to throw in there, I was like WTF?! Not to mention it being completely inappropriate and inaccurate.
Obviously a Man U fan, this one.
@@spockks The historian who said this, Paul Preston, is unsurprisingly, an Evertonian.
@@spockks Obviously you know nothing about football. Or NW England.
@@NmpK24 the xeno is strong in this one. Lol
The most telling difference between the Nationalists and the Republicans was how many prisoners each side released when the war was over. Franco released far more than the Republicans, not because he had far more, but because the Republicans (Socialist/Communist) preferred to murder the majority of their prisoners. Other than that, I'm sure they were wonderful people.
The most telling difference is that the Republicans were communists (not a threat today) and the Nationalists were fascists - very much a threat today since wannabe authoritarian fanboys are crawling out from under their rocks to praise Franco and others like him.
Evidence ? That sounds extremely dubious. Sources, please. I’ve yet to have read any such wild claims outside of the ramblings issued by Franco apologists. And / or shameless devotees of the Axis ‘powers’.
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Many didn't get to be prisoners but we're murdered ..like the little children and all the outspoken intellectuals and journalists the Nationalists killed.
I'd assume they were dangerous to let go and from what I'm seeing you can't get the fascist virus out of a person once they're contaminated. It's literally like that The Walking Dead up in here , the us. But they are diseased with conspiracy, denial, fanatacism, simple answers and above every lazy cerebral activity
Never thought I'd see Everton Fan TV invade a Franco documentary with digs about Klopp being lucky!
Surprise is a very important element of tactics - both in TV and one the battlefield :D
True! That comment came out of nowhere lol I love football drama
Who forgot Franco? He was alive for most of my youth
Franco is not forgotten in Spain. He is more often remembered by his critics ( rather slandered ) than by his adepts
I’m an American and he’s not forgotten here 😂 whoever made this is very stupid!! The amount of errors is insane!!
This video is really just another hit piece on Franco. It's not even remotely fair
@@machopkins422 Truly I began to watch it and quit before one minute had passed.
@@Antares2F Sadly the narrative that prevails in Spain is that Franco is the bad guy and the lefties were the nice people. When I check the history of the 2nd Spanish Republic I wonder why the military waited so long to rebel. It''s true they had a first attempt to rebellion which failed, but then I find they waited too long for the second attempt.
That's so true, because both sides had civilian deaths, a Civil War, but it's what kinds of unarmed people targeted and killed by Communists, men women and children, Catholic clergy, or just for wearing Catholic Christian symbols, having them in the homes, and the other side was because collaboration, and also because caught up in any areas that were trying to get rid of armed enemies. Didn't go around in trucks rounding up innocent people for slaughter. Didn't go in homes to rob and murder, as marauders, especially having doormen sold to their side, and out of envy and what knew that had in the homes, did so. Didn't go in churches and convents, monasteries, to do the same and burn them down. The same way about any type of businesss and factories. Here shown how Franco's troops were seen as saviors, because the populations were being starved to death into submission and rendition. Spain lost a million people in that war. My family was quite fortunate because only lost family members if military, or because of the conditions under. On the other hand, know families that lost dozens of family members, one over thirty family members. That's because also targeted nobles. Cutting fingers off of the murdered, if couldn't get rings off of their fingers. Thoughts on what types of people in the world naturally have the most prolific brutal carnage mafioso thug mentalities, regardless of races, BEFORE interventions by other types of people. God knows, but that's just a why type of way of putting it all.
Didn’t Italy also help franco in the civil war ?
Yes, with both men and materials. Not the biggest succes but they certainly helped alot.
The German and Italian involvement is largely due to one big fact, the Republicans recieved donations while the Nationalists borrowed money. Getting things donated seems better, but if you need to pay it back the person lending the money has in interest in your survival. So the Germans and Italians became more and more involved after a while to make sure they actually get their investment back.
They did. And it bankrupted Italy and severely diminished their military capabilities.
Yes
Yes, but do not expect those other nations involved to be mentioned...As per them Franco was the worst...All pure rubbish...I lived in Spain when Franco was in power...It was the most peaceful time of my life...
Just like the Soviet Union helped those fighting Franco to install a communist Spain.
Spain was safe under Franco visited Spain under Franco could walk anywhere without fear of crime. Visited in 1990’s little more dangerous
Then move to a totalitarian state. You don't appreciate or deserve freedom.
I was born in Spain and lived in Spain under Franco's rule and while I do not take away whatever wrongs he did, the time I lived there before 1975 was the safest...Crime was 0 %...Children could stay out in the streets even after dark....Many people got their two flat houses with back and front yards at very low prices...Ridiculously low...Spain under Franco prospered in a decade while it took other European countries 40 years to do... Spain became the 10th most powerful country in the world...Look at Spain now under Pedro Sánchez...They should be talking about him instead...He is the worst president ever...
@@amparoalvarez9001Spain prospered more after his death and made more technological advances in 30 years than Franco's entire dictatorship.
Yes, a police state will reduce civilian crime while increasing military/government crime.
“Time’s running out for Generalissimo Francisco Franco .” Chevy Chase used that line on Saturday Night Live even after Franco died in 1975, just short of 83.
"This just in.. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.."
So it's funny. His life a mockery
27:29 When Franco asks his daughter to "tell the children in Germany whatever she likes", he whispers in her ear what she should say. You can clearly see his lips moving - what a ridiculous scene!
Forgotten? Every single Spanish novel of the last 60 years, and movies, is about him and his life, he's the least forgotten figure in spanish History, it's just like an unabated mania!
People fascinated by fascism and easily amused by anyone looking like a clean cut Kirby salesman who cab talk DOWN among them
Franco did not start the war. Moscardo was the highest ranked soldier when the war broke out.
Moscardo was a Colonel at the onset of the war.
0:35 completely rational and understandable after what those antifa freaks did to my hometown
Franco was a hero who save Spain from the red revolution, he use the fascist and the Condor legion to defeat the reds. The reich do not reach his objetives to occupie Gibaltrar, Franco inclusive helped Patton in North Africa.
And he allowed Nazis to escape through Gibraltar.
Wow this truly is frightening
*To me, this was not hidden!*
*My HS Biology teacher was a Franco refugee!*
*We heard about the Generalissimo constantly*
*He was a great teacher....*
My history prof was also a Franco refugee, He cancelled our class & gave us the day off to celebrate the day Franco died.
I laughed way to much at the comparison between Klopp and Franco
Dude as soon as he said that I could no longer take him seriously 😂
@@youtubedrifter5594 same all based on luck. You need luck not to fall down the stairs does that make me the same as Franco too 😂
Klopp caught a stray unnecessarily
That was such a bizarre analogy to make, I was like WTF?! Not to mention it being completely inappropriate and inaccurate.
😂😂 me too
Very interessting! The document from Richthofen, (Shown @45:56) says very clearly, that Guernica was RAISED TO THE GROUND by SPANISH GROUND FORCES, namely by the "5.th Brigade", which was sent by somebody whos name was "Oviedo". On the next Page 122, also shown in the video, it reads "all people where evacuated before all Monestrys, private and public buildings where torched. It was done by throwing fuel canisters through the lowest windows of these buildings. These Buildings where very tight, 4-5 floors with large wooden strucures inside, which burn very easily... " the ONLY part on this page, which is highlighted and discussed in the video, is Richthofens mentioning that "it was interresting to see these building collapse". What is not mentioned and completly IGNORED however, is that very "unimportant" detail, written directly above, that the destruction of guernica was mainly done, by HAND, by the troops on the ground.
Nobody forgot Franco.... this video should be titled "The reimagining of Franco, from a communist perspective".
I visited Spain in 1974. Franco was still in power at that time. People seemed to still fear him and were terrified to even discuss politics in Spain.
I’m assuming this is told from the communists perspective sense none of the bizarre communist brutality is essentially mentioned.
Like allways
Exactly !!!
this is a documentary about Franco not the communists
@@SwedishDrunkard5963 "Swedish Socialist" , lol..........a person that has not lived a single day of his life under Socialism.
@@alfredosenalle9284What harm causes socialism? Nothing a part from richy kids like you not being able to exploit the ordinary people.
Terrible made 'docu'. Much better ones out there about Franco.
Which ones?
@@dickiesdocos By the BBC: ua-cam.com/video/F00xKLBE1cQ/v-deo.htmlsi=8jrL3yh5AJ3_3_ln
For a while, it was West Albania! His smartest move was to stay out of WWII.
The 18/7/1936 coup plot was enabled by the British Secret Service, generally referred to as MI6. the aeroplane that flew Franco from Tenerife to North Africa was a British plane provided by MI5, flown by two ex British Army officers with connections toMI6 . They had flown down to Lisbon supposedly on a holiday with their girlfriends and, leaving the girls had flown onto Tenerife to pick up Franco.
Bullshit.
An ABC journalist based in London rented the plane for Joan March, who financed the coup. They offered free travel to an ex British army office (and his family) in order to avoid suspicion.
You must be very naive...
@@herrero4270 Facts are facts. This are the facts and you can't prove otherwise.
@@mussaranya Yeah, facts show you're naive. Despite the fact that British supported Franco's side, it was not Franco who planned and initiated the coup. More probably, the conspirators asked the support of the British government, who saw in the Republic a menace to their own interests in Spain. It is the eternal HIPOCRICY of the extreme right everywhere, supposedly "nationalist", but asking foreign powers to intervene and give aid in the killing of their own people.
Although Franco lived in 1936 in Tenerife (the seat of his post as capitan general of the Canaries) the plane never landed in Tenerife. The military governor of Gran Canaria died in a gun-related accident (?), so that Franco, strictly watched by the civil authorities of the republic, left Tenerife with his wife and daughter to attend the governor’s funeral in Las Palmas. It was from Gran Canaria’s airfield in Gando from which Franco flew to Spanish Morocco, while his wife and daughter sailed in a French liner to avoid the risks of the putsch in case of failure.
Great video, but the Jürgen Klopp comparison discredits one of the contributing historians a bit.
Sorry but one needs to be Spanish and have lived under Franco's regimen to know the truth...I did, and this video is a piece of garbage...My safest time on earth was under Franco's dictatorship...Look at the so called "democracy" of the supposedly free countries of the western world...Democracy, true democracy doesn't exist...Only naive and uninformed people believe such a fairy tale...Spaniards under a dictatorship were freer than American people are these days and the same is true for many other nations...
At the start the narrator briefly mentions priest were assassinated by the left, then at the end of this video he asks how Franco’s wife felt over the deaths on the left. Did the narrator answer his own question in reverse?
Yes. You’re welcome.
The Klopp Analogy got me by surprise
Franco kept Spain out of the Soviet Orbit, kept Spain out of WWII, and forged Spain into a modern state. All this came at high cost, and considerable suffering, to those who opposed The National Movement.
Into a modern state? Gotta be kidding. He actually reversed the drive towards a modern democratic estate. Then after 40 years had no choice.
Spain was a backward feudal state right up to the day Franco died.
Spain began to modernize after Franco died.
Spooky, you called it the National Movememt😲 over here the wannabe dictator calls it something like Bramdon or Maga or something. I don't pay attention, he's "touched" and I wouldn't watch to embarrassed his family by trying to take him seriously
@@joeblow3990oMG WHERE you been this s...is really scary. So even after being f.. over constituents will idolize their victimizer What the f... are we gonna do over here
@@joeblow3990That's not true , feudalism died in Spain hundreds of years ago. The country were real feudalism lasted the longest was Russia , until the 1700s when Peter the Great modernized them.
Franco was hated not because he was a tyrant, but because he was a traditional Catholic and an enemy of Communism.
He was a monster..and the church too.
@@asturiasceltic3183 During the Spanish civil war monsters were rife. Both sides.
Many Catholics were victims.
@@danrooc And many children were Catholic's victims.
@@asturiasceltic3183 WERE YOU? 🤔
@@danrooc Even that church apologized and admitted to their wrongdoings during the Spanish Civil War and allowed for Franco's exhumation. The church washed their hands of Franco, the Nationalists and YOU. Lol
This series is amazing!! Can we get one on Antonio Salazar of Portugal? Many people are divided on him and I find Portuguese history fascinating (but difficult to find documentaries on).
Franco has not been forgotten. He is still very much alive in Spain's collective memory. Stop spreading falsehoods. Questioning the paternity of his daughter is preposterous. Shame, Franco haters...
At about 4:15 there's a guy speculating what Franco might have seen as a boy and then concluding that this had a great impact on his life, without any discussion of what that is.
This is poor history
Point of order, your honour! There is no such thing as "the Spanish Foreign Legion". It's just The Spanish Legion. No foreigners there. Spain is not France.
This represents a huge gap in the history of the second world war that is almost always neglected. As a young man I was an enthusiast for Bultaco motorcycles. The frames were made of very inferior metals. You had to reinforce them in strategic places. This was a result of no nation in the world being willing to trade military raw materials with spain. I think that this is true to this very day.
What a pointless comment and you edited it?
@@fgoogleinthea7475 to understand the point of my comment requires an IQ thats higher than luke warm. The point is that spain remained a pariah long after ww2. By the way luke warm is about 85 degrees which is about what I estimate your IQ to be. If your lucky. And please, please do not ask me to explain to you what a pariah is.
@@fgoogleinthea7475I found it very interesting
@@fgoogleinthea7475 if you didn't get the very clear and easy to grasp point of my comment, im wondering who typed the response you left. It couldn't have been you.
Why did you like the motorbikes even though the frames were weak?
Portugal was the first superpower, not Spain. And in the map with the Spanish Empire, between 1500 and 1580, Portugal was independent...
I beg to differ....Spain was first, Portugal was second....yet combined, both were unstoppable and greatly feared.
the Mongols were first, and controlled a far greater percentage of the earth's land and population than Portugal or Spain ever did.
Exactly. Read "The Portuguese Seaborne Empire." Written by the late Charles R. Boxer. He was still alive when I wrote my Master's Thesis in the matter of Portuguese colonization of India. Also, read the remarkable essay, written by Evelyn Waugh, English convert to the Catholic Church in 1952. Upon the occasion of the last public exhibit of the relics of St. Francis Xavier." At Goa, India.
Somerset Maugham also has some interesting comments concerning the vast empty churches of Goa and other Portuguese outposts along the South - West Coast of India. In the late 19th and early 20th century. The churches were nearly empty. But the priests nonetheless "kept the sacrifice" of the Holy Mass. To the end.
The title of Waugh's essay is: "St Xavier's Bones." In his essay however, he addresses, briefly, the Portuguese Colonial achievement in India and South - East Asia: "The Portuguese Went First and Went Farther." And the first European to set foot in Mainland China was an Portuguese Jesuit Priest..
@@Hwje1111if you say never truly? Odd phrase. They were a global power. It’s like saying Spain wasn’t a superpower because Britain was greater.
@@BlueWolfStudios117 Make Portugal Great Again!
nobody forgot franco.. its just only anglo perspective thinking that history just passed not in latin world.. im from argentina. and we know alot about franco..
Thank you, that's what I'm saying
Franco saved Spain from being a kind of west Albania!
Absolutely true!
Nonsense
Really?!!!
You've probably said something more enlightening than this entire documentary.
You have little understanding of the history of Spain or Albania. Franco kept Spain 40 years behind the rest of Europe
Einstein, or someone, said, "The greatest indicator of genius is knowing when to stop." By this standard, Franco takes the prize. He used Germany and Italy to get in power, but stayed out of WWII except for the Blue Division in the Soviet Union. He allowed escaped Allied prisoners and shot down aircrew to go through Spain to get out. He kept connections to the victorioius Allied powers and Spain transitioned into a holiday destination and NATO membership. He had a weak hand and played it well.
Hardly mentioned is George Orwell's exerience in Spain, the purge of the POUM non-Stalinist but still Commmunist faction, or the ever- tightening grip of Soviet security. Also not metioned is that most of the Soviets who were in Spain were purged by Joseph Stalin on their return to the USSR.
This is a ZDF channel which is a left-wing public TV station. They will tell the brutal truth about right-wing regimes but minimize the brutality and danger from left-wing regimes.
Little Carmen was obviously reading from a script held beside the camera 😂. The usual 🙄 😅
In Egypt, no one can challenge our dictators. The suffering is immense.
Yes, I, too, noticed that. She wasn't speaking spontaneously, just straining to read a script behind the camera.
@@mike7gerald yeah! She looked nit happy too, she knew in her heart, as she was still a pure soul, that she was doing wrong!I can't believe Spain was actually a brutal dictatorship until the 70s.
I don't know why we in this part of the world are not capable of changing our destiny!! Makes me very sad!
Strange today is December 4th, Franco's birthday...
What a shame of documentary. You just can't fool everybody, in particular those who lived in that time. The documentary is full of half truth and plain lies. And from time to time some truth. It's a same that so many people who didn't know anything about this will get a wrong idea of those happenings.
This man compared Juergen klopp to Franco 😂😂
Must be Man Utd fan that fatty
A Franco vs Klopp comparison comes down to”show us your medals”.
@@Big-Campbell I think Franco had more can’t lie
It's inscribed on the book of destiny's, every king and the kingdom shall fall.
Yet some dignitaries people are hard to forget.
I spent 3-1/2 years in Spain in the early 70s as a sailor on a USN sub tender. I found southern Spain to be poor but with no crime. I was never hasled while traveling around the country by police or Guardia Civil. Franco was still in power. Recently I looked at Rota and Chipiona on google earth and found graffiti on the buildings. That never happened under Franco.
Fascists do have the power to keep the trains running.
@@kamwickw933 But even Franco could not make RENFE run on time!
@@pilsudski36 In those days no country ran on time...Technology was really obsolete and still is..I know what the elites possess and they keep it from us the little people...
You forget to mention how Franco turned a lot of Spain into Shanti towns.
@@asturiasceltic3183 And today Pedro Sanchez is determined to turn Spain into a giant open air toilet.
Franco did his duty to the monarchy to the end. Too bad Juan Carlos mucked everything up he had been given on a silver platter.
"No Catholic may assent to a Constitution- to any Constitution- especially when it is imposed where one did not exist before...Even when the Constitution begins with an express affirmation of Catholicity, it has to be rejected by Catholics. The first Constitution invented in Spain - that of 1812- read, 'The religion of the Spanish nation is and will always be the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman and only True one. The nation will protect it through wise and just laws and will prohibit the exercise of any other (Article 12)'. And yet our elders rejected it as impious and seditious...Why? Because a Constitution is a concept - as well an institution- born of the French revolutionary Convention, and is understood as an act that constitutes the nation on behalf of national sovereignty or 'popular will'. This national sovereignty or popular will pretend to be substitutes...for the Grace of God and God Himself as the principle and basis for legislation and political order. All that is written in a Constitution is done so as a convention or construct of human will, never as a recognition of something which exists by itself and that transcends that act of will. The very affirmation of the Catholicity of the State- even of religious unity- meant in prior constitutions not a recognition of the existence of God and His law, but an expression of popular will in its constituent action."
- Rafael Gambra Ciudad
Interesting read
Good point, well made.
I'm so grateful for our secular USA republic. Merging of church and state is antichrist.
Franco may not have been perfect and his methods left a lot to be desired.
But better a Caudillo than a Castro or a Canel.
He actually murdered a lot of people AFTER the civil war and placed the country in isolation. He had way more blood on his hands than Castro.
Also, an interesting thing nobody talks about: how comes his family has become so wealthy that his daughter died as one of the wealthiest women of Spain? Must have been a lot of honest work I guess.
@@KPW2137 you talking about Hunter Biden, surely?
@@KPW2137keep quiet leftoid
@@KPW2137 You only follow what you hear...Read the true history...I lived under Franco's regimen and Fidel Castro was much worst...but the US couldn't control him...although they tried...Franco reached out to other countries...unlike Castro...
Oh I've read. And TBH, I've met in my life quite a few people who said great things about Stalin, about Mao, and some other places after living under their regimes@@amparoalvarez9001
Pretty biased against Franco😅 We get it that you don’t like Franco, but all that seems to be forgotten is objective non-bias history.
The lefties have control of the media.
Оne sided story: nothing said about role USSR played...
Yep because the USSR was a cancer as was communism. And it’s mentioned as Franco already believing the USSR had something to do with the republicans
Tells you all you need to know, doesn't it?
Yeah, Franco was a disgusting dictator. That doesn't mean anyone is saying Stalin was wonderful. Reichwing sympathizers really must be simplistic thinkers if that's the take..."buh buh but.....what about the USSR??????".
Or that the USSR stole Spain's gold in order to "protect" it.
@@steves2664 I remember that one...I am a Spaniard and I know this video is a piece of crap...My time in Spain under Franco's regimen was the most peaceful one of my life..
Any historical analysis performed by anglo-americans, especially of the 20th century, is absolutely disposable.
Racist statement - also untrue
Which is why the interviewed are mostly German and Spanish.
One side story.
Democracy standing up to the fascist nazis…. The coalition of socialist communist and anarchist for back. Hmmm, yeah so in other words not a coalition for democracy. So thank you General Franco for saving Spain. He also protected Spain from BOTH sides in ww2. This film is filthy and more important a factually inaccurate film. Multiple inaccuracies of easy to google facts.
This was nothing but a hit piece on Franco. I clicked on it to see something balanced. I couldn’t finish it because it was so biased.
You can't handle the truth.
@@roelkomduur8073 The truth is that Franco saved Spain from brutal anti-Christian Communism.
@@igregmart wow. Everything you said demonstrates how brainwashed and ignorant you are.
@@roelkomduur8073 on the contrary, why wasn’t there any mention of the Soviets involvement in the Republican government? There were atrocities committed by the Communists as well. If you value the “truth”, there should have been a more thorough analysis of Franco and what he faced.
If it’s right wing dictator vs left wing dictator, obviously left wing is associated with a much more evil disturbed message.
What a facile take on history.
Brilliant doc
Actually it's ridiculously judgmental full of errors. But hey, 98% of youtube inhabitants never saw a history book.
My family in Spain said that Franco saved Spain from the wretches of the communist murdering campaign- Many even today wish he was still around
Franco & his fellow generals did a military coup vs an elected goverment. When it fialed they dragged Spain through three (3) years of civil war.
Then unleashed terror on polical opponents after the war. Later they said "oh it was to stop the copmmunists from taking power".
It must hav ebeen quite athreat worth a cvil war and 35 years of his dicatorship (bringS pain to starvation at one point)....
Many older Russians harbour similar feelings for Stalin.
@@peterrandall9523 My daughter’s in-laws are Russian- grandma is 86 and she was telling me of the horrors of the Stalin era, she said one night the secret police showed up and took her older brother- he was tortured so bad he was never right again- Franco had similar tactics- but the alternative was worse- they were executing people with crucifix in the streets
It doesn’t matter whether you have a right or left wing dictator in power, any totalitarian state will torture and kill its opposition. Supreme control brings out the evil in them.
Stalin killed more people than Franco, but they were both torturing and killing up until they expired. I have no fondness for either, but I did have acquaintances who were in the International Brigades and I still hold them in high esteem, as I do anybody who opposes Fascism….
@@peterrandall9523Franco was nothing like Stalin , in fact he was preventing Stalin from taking over Spain.
During Franco's Spain there were no Gulags , no concentration camps , no purges , no 20 million people murdered.
This just in. Spanish dictator Francisco Franco is still dead!
Thank goodness…..
si menos mal!@@peterrandall9523
This video is unwatchable due to the number of ads. Literally every 3 minutes another ad pops up.
I use an ad block and do not leave cookies on, and a VPN from Europe.
The Man that saved Spain from becoming another Russian satellite!
Fua!
What???? Of course not: thats just deranged. This was prewar remember. Crikey, read some history
The Soviets were not interested in controlling Spain, as much as defeating Franco. They were not interested in alienating potential Western allies.
@@muir8009 Jajaja...Because Franco was a threat to the USSR?...Really? Communists doing what they've always done, spread their sick ideology worldwide.
@@SandfordSmythe More like stealing Spain's gold reserves, which THEY DID with the help of communist SOB Largo Caballero.
So often these ludicrous headlines. "Spain's forgotten dictatorship" ??? Forgotten by whom ?? A few uneducated ignoramuses, perhaps.
This channel is so biased against Franco lmfao. Just accepting the Republican version of events without question.
The Republicans quickly kowtowed to Stalin; to the point that they issued arrest warrants for George Orwell and other Anarchists.
@@Harry-q2q6yWhat? The Republic was made of numerous factions and dissolved because if in fighting. Orwell said on his death bed that his heart will always be with the democrat socialists of the Republic.
@@asturiasceltic3183 The officials within the Republic that made all major decisions. Please read George Orwell's 'Homage To Catalonia' for a better understanding of the political infighting
@@Harry-q2q6y Haha. I read it. And my family knew Orwell during the Spanish Civil War when they were all journalists.. And you? I don't.need your puny second source reference.
What an evil pointless war. So many unnecessary deaths
A patriot and anti-communist.
And an Antichrist devil. He was a murderer from the beginning.
@@ka9fon A devout Catholic fighting communists and restoring order.
@kynismos truly a "good catholic" with the blood of many on his hands. Franco was a murderer wishing to kill half his country for his ungodly causes. The Bible says no murder has eternal life. Sadly he died and went to hell.
Why do people say “forgotten” dictatorship. No one who cracked a book will forget major events of history. We know exactly who Francisco Franco was, It’s not our fault that the younger generation has the attention span of a housefly due to Tik Tok and can’t learn anything except diversity quotas
There are so many mistakes and cliches. Even easy to research facts like Spain was in the risk of losing it’s only colony…. Yeah it was not the only colony. Also, this is obviously a hit piece. Obliviously they didn’t bother to read his autobiography.
I only watched half way, it is not only very bad documentary but also incomplete and bias. They completely forget the surrounding geopolitics in Europe at the time. My father and grandparents lived in Franco’s Spain and loved him because my grandmother lost one brother and two sister murdered by the communist, disguised like La Republica. They saw Franco as the savior of their own lives and of Spain. I understand that other families suffered just the opposite, truth is not black and white but depends on your perspective.
I visited Spain in 73 and Franco was still the Boss.
You could see the aftermath of the War .... many parapalegic men everywhere.
You see paraplegic men after every war.
Spain dominated the waves up to 1898 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣 the British Royal Navy may have something to say about that! Pure 💩 from then on
Again
Africa used as a test ground for brutality
Yet the Ashkenazis claimed they are the most oppressed
Cheers
Guernica was NOT; "the first unprotected town to be destroyed in the history of warfare". What an utterly stupid statement. That type of thing in all wars from time immemorial was/is part and parcel of wars between humans.
I'm not even bothering watching part 2. This video is ridiculously full of error.
As bad as Franco may seem to people today, Stalin was a thousand times worse. Given an impossible choice between Fascism and Stalin, Fascism was the far lesser evil.
It was never a choice between Franco and Stalin. It was always a choice between a democratic republic vs. fascist military dictatorship.
nothing about your video is objective. not your narration, not the so-called experts, not your so-called facts. revisionist history
How could anyone forget this?
Very narrow-minded explanation of this process. So Communists were “angels” from your view? Any stories about their atrocities? Don’t consider myself as “Fashist advocate”, they and Franco were evil, but were objective view? What about political failure of left forces, especially on economy?
Recall the headlines from SNL... Francisco Franco is still dead.
If "enigmatic" means he was a mystery to the Spanish, or "hard to figure out" forget it. The Republicans had him figured out all right, and died fighting his troops or were imprisoned, and tortured, or executed, and after the war were punished with joblessness, thereby starving their families, by a small minded, vicious and very vengeful reactionary Francisco Franco, whose family was extremely venal and proprietary about that which belonged to others. In other words they were THIEVES. ~ Antonio Perales del Hierro
Based Franco
Franco was a typical Galician.
The writing and editing of this "documentary" is very left slanting. It ignored the well-known and well-documented effective work of the USSR in subverting various moderate and leftist groups in Spain. By 1934 Stalin was effectively running most of the left in Spain (as well as in France).
Franco did not initiate the 17 July 1936 Nationalist rebellion against what was left of the chaotic communist-sabotaged Republican government of Spain. The rebellion was lead by "The Lion of the Rif", exiled Lieutenant General José Sanjurjo y Sacanel..When the charismatic Sanjurjo was killed in a plane crash on 20 July 1936 on his way to Spain from Portugal the not-at-all charismatic General Molar became the leader of the Nationalist forces. Franco became military and political leader of the rebellion on 1 October 1936.
Franco who saved Spajn from Communism and Socialism
Franco Who like all the other military in the coup ignored results of a democratic election and pushed a progressive reformist left of centre government into the hands of communists and oblivion. Shame on UK for our shocking role in non intervention. At least the French tried, despite us.
yes, absolutely
Your a very sick person if you think a murderous dictator is better than 'Socialism'..!! And now they suffer with a Corrupt King & Queen..!!
The mention of Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool FC to the world. Up the reds 11:46
A fair old chunk of the International Brigaders from Britain came from Liverpool.
Without excusing many Republican atrocities, Franco was a cruel man, pitted against a democratically elected Government.
Could you produce something about Salazar please? Professor Preston, an excellent contributor to this presentation might know about Franco's neighbour..
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Tasmania.
They don't produce anything, it's just posting documentaries they steal for ad revenue
Franco certainly is not a forgotten dictator in Spain!
I think to put Jürgen Klopps success down to luck, shows a lack of research. Maybe change the colour of those spectacles eh Mr Preston.
The Alcazar in Toledo was held by Cornel Moscardo, the head of the Guardia Civil of Toledo, who lost his son, when his son was taken hostage by the republican militias then asking the cornel to surrender the Alcazar in exchange for his sons life. The last words of the father to his son: “I love you my son with all my heart and I know you will die like a man, long live Spain.” - his son:”I love you too my father” - then the son was shot - this exchange had been taped, including the shot, and can be listened to when visiting the Alcazar.
(When I visited the Alcazar, I was moved by this event, as the office of Cornel Moscardo has been left untouched and in its original state since this event)
The Guardian Civil was loyal to the military, not to the Second Republic and was holding out against the troops loyal to the republican government. The men you see in min. 32:28 are in fact the defenders who were using balearic slings to launch grenades made from church door ornaments.
Toledo was also not relieved by Franco, but by the troops of General Jose Enrique Varela (commanding General of the 30,000 strong National Volunteers Corps, an Africa veteran and a graduate of the military academy of Toledo) and Franco only visited the day after the 70 days siege was lifted. The national military was seen as the liberators who came in the hour of greatest need when the defenders were about to make their last stand.
In the report it was made to look as if Franco got out of his way to conquer Toledo, to flatten the Alcazar and as if the Alcazar was defending against him.
That is factual incorrect.