[71] An obelisk commemorating this historic meeting was erected at the site in a clearing at Las Raíces.[72]. The Socialists triggered an insurrection that they had been preparing for nine months. On 22 October 1923, Franco married María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdès (11 June 1900 – 6 February 1988). The 17,000 refugees housed in Gurs were divided into four categories: Brigadists, pilots, Gudaris and ordinary "Spaniards". While serving in Morocco, he rose through the ranks to become brigadier general in 1926, aged 33, becoming the youngest general in Spain. 337, "Cronología general de la Guerra Civil Española (1936–1939)", "The Franco Years: Policies, Programs, and Growing Popular Unrest", "Gazeta histórica: Referencia: Páginas TIFF", "4862 – 17 julio 1954 – B.O. Franco's parents married in 1890 in the Church of San Francisco in El Ferrol. In early August, the situation in western Andalusia was stable enough to allow Franco to organise a column (some 15,000 men at its height), under the command of then Lieutenant-Colonel Juan Yagüe, which would march through Extremadura towards Madrid. Franco's Spanish nationalism promoted a unitary national identity by repressing Spain's cultural diversity. [62] In line with Payne's point of view, in 2017 two Spanish scholars, Manuel Álvarez Tardío and Roberto Villa García published the result of a major research work where they concluded that the 1936 elections were rigged. The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 and officially ended with Franco's victory in April 1939, leaving 190,000[78] to 500,000[79] dead. From 1917 to 1920, he served in Spain. [147] On 16 December 1968, the Spanish government formally revoked the 1492 Edict of Expulsion against Spain's Jewish population.[148][149]. In 2010, documents were discovered showing that on 13 May 1941, Franco ordered his provincial governors to compile a list of Jews while he negotiated an alliance with the Axis powers. [196] However, most historians agree that although Franco and Spain under his rule adopted some trappings of fascism they are generally not considered to be fascist,[158][159][160][161][197] at most describing the early totalitarian phase of his rule as a "fascistized dictatorship",[198] or "semi-fascist regime". 2 (2010): 344–363. Additionally, Mussolini ordered a voluntary army, the Corpo Truppe Volontarie (CTV) of fully motorised units (some 12,000 Italians), to Seville, and Hitler added to them a professional squadron from the Luftwaffe (2JG/88) with about 24 planes. By the time of Franco's death in 1975, Spain still lagged behind most of Western Europe but the gap between its per capita GDP and that of the leading Western European countries had narrowed greatly, and the country had developed a large industrialised economy. Despite the Non-Intervention Agreement of August 1936, the war was marked by foreign intervention on behalf of both sides, leading to international repercussions. Soviet officers were in effective charge of military operations on the Madrid front. The other rebels were determined to go ahead con Paquito o sin Paquito (with Paquito or without Paquito; Paquito being a diminutive of Paco, which in turn is short for Francisco), as it was put by José Sanjurjo, the honorary leader of the military uprising. Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator and general, was perhaps Europe's most successful fascist leader because he actually managed to survive in power until his natural death. Through this law, homosexuality and prostitution were made criminal offenses in 1954.[167]. Even the staunch socialist Indalecio Prieto, at a party rally in Cuenca in May 1936, complained: "we have never seen so tragic a panorama or so great a collapse as in Spain at this moment. Stalin had come to the conclusion that "it would be more advantageous to the Soviet Union if neither of the warring camps gained proponderant strength, and if the war in Spain dragged on as long as possible and thus tied up Hitler for a long time." Franco decided to name a monarch to succeed his regency, but the simmering tensions between the Carlists and the Alfonsoists continued. [177], On 24 August 2018, the Government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez approved legal amendments to the Historical Memory Law stating that only those who died during the Civil War would be buried at the Valle de los Caídos, resulting in plans to exhume Franco's remains for reburial elsewhere. Franco: A personal and political biography. Valencia, Castellon and Alicante saw the last Republican troops defeated by Franco. He was badly wounded in the abdomen, specifically the liver, in a skirmish at El Biutz. During the Algerian War (1954–62), Madrid became the base of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a right-wing French Army group which sought to preserve French Algeria. Spain continued to import[clarification needed] war materials and trade wolfram with Germany until August 1944 when the Germans withdrew from the Spanish frontier. His grades were average; though his good memory meant he seldom struggled in mental tests, his small stature was a hindrance in physical tests. [140] Franco supplied Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, architect of the Nazis' Final Solution, with a list of 6,000 Jews in Spain.[140]. All cultural activities were subject to censorship, and many, such as the Sardana, the national dance of Catalonia, were plainly forbidden (often in an erratic manner). It was quite common for conservative officers to be moved or demoted. [109] In 1937, Franco assumed as the tentative doctrine of his regime 26 out of the original 27 points. Until the 1970s women could not open a bank account without having it co-signed by her father or husband. When the invasion of the Soviet Union began on 22 June 1941, Franco's foreign minister Ramón Serrano Suñer immediately suggested the formation of a unit of military volunteers to join the invasion. The end of the war led to hundreds of thousands of exiles, mostly to France, but also to Mexico, Chile, Cuba, and the United States. Queipo de Llano and Cabanellas had both previously rebelled against the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera and were therefore discredited in some nationalist circles, and Falangist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera was in prison in Alicante (he would be executed a few months later). It was said that officers would receive either la caja o la faja (a coffin or a general's sash). Some historians, such as Ernst Nolte, have considered that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin used the Spanish Civil war as a testing ground for modern warfare,[citation needed] being quickly set up and that the Spanish Civil War, along with World War II, to be part of a European Civil War which lasted from 1936 to 1945 and was mainly characterised as a left/right ideological conflict. [111] In 1939 the personalist style heavily predominated, with ritualistic invocations of "Franco, Franco, Franco. Subsequently, Alcalá-Zamora vetoed the logical replacement, a majority center-right coalition, led by the CEDA, which would reflect the composition of the parliament. The Gudaris (Basques) and the pilots easily found local backers and jobs, and were allowed to quit the camp, but the farmers and ordinary people, who could not find relations in France, were encouraged by the French government, in agreement with the Francoist government, to return to Spain. Some time after these events, Franco was briefly commander-in-chief of the Army of Africa (from 15 February onwards), and from 19 May 1935, on, Chief of the General Staff. Civil marriages which had taken place in Republican Spain were declared null and void unless they had been confirmed by the Catholic Church. There seems to be no consensus on whether the statue should simply be moved or completely destroyed. [158][159][160][161] Stanley Payne notes that very few scholars consider him to be a "core fascist". 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"[139] Similar gratitude was also expressed by the Provisional French Government. [138] In November 1942 President Roosevelt wrote to General Franco: "...your nation and mine are friends in the best sense of the word. Francisco Franco died on 20th November 1975 and within two years almost every vestige of his dictatorship had disappeared. [77] Franco himself certainly detested communism, but had no commitment to any ideology: his stand was motivated not by foreign fascism but by Spanish tradition and patriotism.[77]. Matthews, James. To his father's chagrin, Francisco decided to try the Spanish Army. [210], Official endeavors to preserve the historical memory of the Franco regime include exhibitions like the one the Museu d'Història de Catalunya (Museum of Catalan History) organised around the prison experience. In March 2006, the Permanent Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe unanimously adopted a resolution "firmly" condemning the "multiple and serious violations" of human rights committed in Spain under the Francoist regime from 1939 to 1975. The Catholic Church was upheld as the established church of the Spanish State, and it regained many of the traditional privileges which it had lost under the Republic. An up-to-date and more thoroughly researched book, ‘Franco’s Friends’ by Peter Day tells the full story. "Riots Sweep Spain on Left's Victory; Jails Are Stormed", sfn error: no target: CITEREFRichardson1969 (, Payne, Stanley G., and Jesús Palacios. Two years later Franco became the director of the General Military Academy in Zaragoza. On 23 June 1936, he wrote to the head of the government, Casares Quiroga, offering to quell the discontent in the Spanish Republican Army, but received no reply. Leaders of European countries have been guarded in their reaction the dictator's death and expressed hope that the new king would introduce modern democracy to Spain. Franco initially pursued a policy of autarky, cutting off almost all international trade. From there they were transferred to the Miranda de Ebro camp for "purification" according to the Law of Political Responsibilities. It was elected in accordance with corporatist principles, and had little real power. Prince Juan Carlos was sworn in as King of Spain on 22 November 1975. Advisers accompanied the armaments. From the mid-1950s there was modest acceleration in economic activity after some minor reforms and a relaxation of controls. Three years later the Nationalists declared victory which extended Franco's dictatorship over Spain through a period of repression of political opponents. 1975: Spanish dictator Franco dies General Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain with an authoritarian hand for 39 years, has died at the age of 82. [citation needed] The enforcement by public authorities of traditional Catholic values was a stated intent of the regime, mainly by using a law (the Ley de Vagos y Maleantes, Vagrancy Act) enacted by Azaña. The political party with the most votes was the Confederación Español de Derechas Autónomas ("CEDA"), but president Alcalá-Zamora declined to invite the leader of the CEDA, Gil Robles, to form a government. Although Franco adopted some trappings of fascism, he, and Spain under his rule, are generally not considered to be fascist; among the distinctions, fascism entails a revolutionary aim to transform society, where Franco did not seek to do so, and, to the contrary, although authoritarian, he was by nature conservative and traditional. [186], According to a poll by the Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, 43% of Spanish people approved of the exhumation while 32.5% opposed it. During the Civil War and in the aftermath, a period known as the White Terror took place. This controversial decision gave the Popular Front time to strengthen its defenses in Madrid and hold the city that year, but with Soviet support. Francoism professed a devotion to the traditional role of a woman in society; that is, being a loving daughter and sister to her parents and brothers, being a faithful wife to her husband, and residing with her family. [209] The Senate approved the bill on 10 December 2007. On 14 June 1940, Spanish forces in Morocco occupied Tangier (a city under international control) and did not leave until the war's end in 1945. His dictatorial style proved highly adaptable, which enabled wide-sweeping social and economic reform, while consistent pursuits during his reign centered on highly centralised government, authoritarianism, nationalism, national Catholicism, anti-freemasonry, anti-semitism and anti-communism. [66], At the same time PSOE's left-wing socialists became more radical. The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) went into exile, and in 1959 the ETA armed group was created to wage a low-intensity war against Franco. [134] Franco seriously considered blocking allied access to the Mediterranean Sea by invading British-held Gibraltar,[127] but he abandoned the idea after learning that the plan would have likely failed due to Gibraltar being too heavily defended. Carmen Franco also chaired the National Francisco Franco Foundation (FNFF), dedicated to promoting the fascist dictator’s legacy, until her death. November 11th, 2015: General Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain for nearly 40 years, died on the 20th of November, 1975 after a serious illness lasting nearly six weeks. Some regions such as the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and Andalusia were given a great deal of autonomy, which was then extended to all Spanish regions. Spain was then admitted to the United Nations in 1955. Franco recovered and on 2 September he resumed his duties as head of state. Franco signed a revised Anti-Comintern Pact on 25 November 1941. [182] His body was to be exhumed from the Valle de los Caídos on 10 June 2019, but the Supreme Court of Spain ruled that the exhumation would be delayed until the family had exhausted all possible appeals. According to his family, Franco did not want to be buried in the Valley, but in the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid. [22] The young Franco spent much of his childhood with his two brothers, Nicolás and Ramón, and his two sisters, María del Pilar and María de la Paz. Owing to Franco's human-rights record, the Spanish government in 2007 banned all official public references to the Franco regime and began the removal of all statues, street names and memorials associated with the regime, with the last statue reportedly being removed in 2008 in the city of Santander. While Franco did not suffer any great abuse at his father's hand, he would never overcome his antipathy for his father and largely ignored him for the rest of his life; years after becoming dictator, Franco wrote a brief novel Raza under the pseudonym Jaime de Andrade, whose protagonist is believed by Stanley Payne to represent the idealised man Franco wished his father had been. [23] Ramón was an internationally known aviator, a Freemason originally with leftist political leanings. As with his decision to relieve the garrison at Toledo, this approach has been subject of some debate: some of his decisions, such as in June 1938 when he preferred to head for Valencia instead of Catalonia, remain particularly controversial from a military viewpoint. The Nazis were disappointed with Franco's resistance to installing fascism. [173][174] The site was designated by the interim government, assured by Prince Juan Carlos and Prime Minister Carlos Arias Navarro, as the burial place for Franco. [103] Beevor "reckons Franco's ensuing 'white terror' claimed 200,000 lives. Franco's view of Spanish tradition was somewhat artificial and arbitrary: while some regional traditions were suppressed, flamenco, an Andalusian tradition, was considered part of a larger, national identity. In the winter of 1940–41 Franco toyed with the idea of a "Latin Bloc" formed by Spain, Portugal, Vichy France, the Vatican and Italy, without much consequence. Enrique Rueda, was mugged in broad daylight on a main thoroughfare in downtown Madrid. [204] Since 1978, the national anthem of Spain, the Marcha Real, does not include lyrics introduced by Franco. [172] Juan Carlos was proclaimed King two days later. On 21 September, with the head of the column at the town of Maqueda (some 80 km away from Madrid), Franco ordered a detour to free the besieged garrison at the Alcázar of Toledo, which was achieved on 27 September. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) were banned in 1939, while the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) went underground. [207], Rif War and advancement through the ranks, From the Spanish Civil War to World War II. It decide to raise an international brigade of 5,000 men and a fund of 1 billion francs to be administered by a commission where Largo Caballero and Dolores Ibárruri had prominent roles. In 1937, Franco merged all parties on the Nationalist side into a single legal party, the FET y de las JONS. Although both Germany and Italy provided military support to Franco, the degree of influence of both powers on his direction of the war seems to have been very limited. The Legion and supporting units relieved the Spanish enclave of Melilla after a three-day forced march led by Franco. … [194] In 2006, a poll indicated that almost two-thirds of Spaniards favored a "fresh investigation into the war". The conspiracy suggested that Jews, Freemasons, Communists, and other leftists alike sought the destruction of Christian Europe, with Spain the principal target.[44]. [151] With the pivot of Spain's foreign policy towards the United States during the Cold War, the situation changed with the 1967 Law on Religious Freedom, which granted full public religious rights to non-Catholics. From 20 July onward Franco was able, with a small group of 22 mainly German Junkers Ju 52 aircraft, to initiate an air bridge to Seville, where his troops helped to ensure the rebel control of the city. [102] After the failed assault on Madrid in November 1936, Franco settled on a piecemeal approach to winning the war, rather than bold maneuvering. [66] The diffusion of the myth about an alleged Communist coup d'état as well a pretended state of "social chaos" became pretexts for a coup. He also added "by the grace of God", a phrase usually part of the styles of monarchs, to his style. [211], The accumulated wealth of Franco's family (including much real estate inherited from Franco, such as the Pazo de Meirás, the Canto del Pico in Torrelodones and the Casa Cornide [es] in A Coruña[207]), and its provenance, have also become matters of public discussion. [168] In the 1960s and 1970s these restrictions were somewhat relaxed. Historical analysis and investigations estimate the number of executions by the Franco regime during this time to be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead. As a result of Azaña's military reform, in January 1933 Franco was relegated from first to 24th in the list of brigadiers. [citation needed] Volunteer Spanish troops (the División Azul, or "Blue Division") fought on the Eastern Front under German command from 1941 to 1944. [43] Fearing the increasing popular opposition, the Radical and Socialist majority postponed the regular elections, therefore prolonging their way in power for two more years. In 1939 Franco won the war, which had claimed almost half a million lives. [146] In the aftermath of the Six Day War in 1967, Franco's Spain were able to utilise their positive relationship with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Arab world (due to not having recognised the Israeli state) to allow 800 Egyptian Jews; many of Sephardic ancestry; safe passage out of Egypt on Spanish passports. A privately owned DH 89 De Havilland Dragon Rapide, flown by two British pilots, Cecil Bebb and Hugh Pollard,[73] was chartered in England on 11 July to take Franco to Africa. [95] On 21 September it was decided that Franco was to be commander-in-chief (this unified command was opposed only by Cabanellas),[96] and, after some discussion, with no more than a lukewarm agreement from Queipo de Llano and from Mola, also head of government. [34] He also held a tense meeting with Primo de Rivera in July 1924. This left Asturian strikers to fight alone.[49]. He was short and was bullied for his small size. Franco led the first wave of troops ashore at Al Hoceima (Spanish: Alhucemas) in 1925. This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain or the Francoist dictatorship. [142][143][144][145], After the war, Franco did not recognize Israeli statehood, maintained strong relations with the Arab world and Israel expressed disinterest in establishing relations, although there were some informal economic ties between the countries in the later years of Franco's governance of Spain. In 2010 documents were discovered showing that on 13 May 1941, Franco ordered his provincial governors to compile a list of Jews while he negotiated an alliance with the Axis powers. Medieval Life and Death . On paper, Franco had more power than any Spanish leader before or since. Though the colonial units sent to the north by the government at Franco's recommendation[55] consisted of the Spanish Foreign Legion and the Moroccan Regulares Indigenas, the right-wing press portrayed the Asturian rebels as lackeys of a foreign Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy. He would graduate in July 1910 as second lieutenant, coming in at position 251 out of 312, though this may have been less to do with his grades than his small size, young age and reduced physical presence; Stanley Payne observes that by the time Civil War began, Franco had already become a major general and would soon be a generalissimo, while none of his higher-ranking fellow cadets had managed to get beyond the rank of lieutenant-colonel. [133] On 19 June 1940, Franco pressed along a message to Hitler saying he wanted to enter the war, but Hitler was annoyed at Franco's demand for the French colony of Cameroon, which had been German before World War I, and which Hitler was planning on taking back for Plan Z. The assassination of prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco in the 20 December 1973 bombing by ETA eventually gave an edge to the liberalizing faction. This made Franco the only person interred in the Valley who did not die during the civil war. By early 1939 only Madrid (see History of Madrid) and a few other areas remained under control of the government forces. This transfer into a perilous role may have been decided because Franco failed to win the hand of his first love, Sofía Subirán. [37] In 1928 Franco was appointed director of the newly created General Military Academy of Zaragoza, a new college for all army cadets, replacing the former separate institutions for young men seeking to become officers in infantry, cavalry, artillery, and other branches of the army. Franco died in 1975, aged 82, and was entombed in the Valle de los Caídos. [57] The Spanish historian Salvador de Madariaga, an Azaña supporter, and an exiled vocal opponent of Francisco Franco is the author of a sharp critical reflection against the participation of the left in the revolt: “The uprising of 1934 is unforgivable. Franco became the Legion's second-in-command and returned to Africa. Nevertheless, the 56-year old Count didn't stand a chance against his charming son, whose youth allowed for an appropriate grooming by francoist tutors and was not tainted by a deserved reputation as a dissolute drink-loving aristocrat that clashed with the prevailing mores of the time. Through representatives, he started to negotiate with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy for more military support, and above all for more aircraft. A more likely motive was Stalin's instinct for self-preservation; the Spanish Civil War had aroused a spirit of heroism in support of freedom more in line with Trotskyism, and such ideas might be exported to the Soviet Union. Franco had a controversial association with Jews during the WWII period. Attempts to give the national anthem new lyrics have failed due to lack of consensus. Franco was removed as Director of the Zaragoza Military Academy in 1931; about 95% of his former Zaragoza cadets later came to side with him in the Civil War. [65], José Calvo Sotelo, who acquired anti-communism as the axis of his parliamentary speeches, became the speaker of violent propaganda—advocating for a military coup d'état; formulating a catastrophist discourse of a dichotomous choice between "communism" or a markedly totalitarian "National" State, setting the mood of the masses for a military rebellion. [4], Julián Casanova Ruiz, nominated in 2008 among the experts in the first judicial investigation (conducted by judge Baltasar Garzón) against the Francoist crimes,[116] as well as historians Josep Fontana and Hugh Thomas, estimate the deaths in the White Terror to be around 150,000 in total. Larger cities and capitals were mostly under the jurisdiction of the Policia Armada, or the grises ("greys", due to the colour of their uniforms) as they were called. After initial reluctance, he joined the July 1936 military coup, which, after failing to take Spain, sparked the Spanish Civil War. Within two years a friend of mine, the well-known Cuban-American priest, Rev. In 1973 Franco resigned as prime minister – separated from the head of state office since 1967 – due to advanced age and illness, but remained in power as the latter and commander-in-chief. [50] Thirty four priests, six young seminarists with ages between 18 and 21, and several businessmen and civil guards were summarily executed by the revolutionaries in Mieres and Sama, 58 religious buildings including churches, convents and part of the university at Oviedo were burned and destroyed. The year after, Mohammed V invaded Spanish Sahara during the Ifni War (known as the "Forgotten War" in Spain). [132] Franco had cautiously decided to enter the war on the Axis side in June 1940, and to prepare his people for war, an anti-British and anti-French campaign was launched in the Spanish media that demanded French Morocco, Cameroon and Gibraltar. He requested help from Benito Mussolini, who responded with an unconditional offer of arms and planes; in Germany Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the Abwehr military intelligence, persuaded Hitler to support the Nationalists. Immediately after the civil war most progressive laws passed by the Republic aimed at equality between the sexes were nullified. In 2008, it was alleged by historian José María Zavala that this injury had left Franco with only one testicle. Franco initially sought support from various groups. Franco's own leadership, which helped unify the various Nationalist factions, as well as his diplomatic skill, which helped the Nationalists secure military aid from Italy and Germany and keep democracies such as Britain and France out of the war. The post of Prime Minister was attached to that of Head of State until the 1967, After the Spanish Government allowed Sephardi and other Jews to seek refuge via Spain from National Socialist areas, an. Stanley G. Payne approximates 50,000 executions by the Republicans and at least 70,000 executions by the Nationalists during the civil war,[79][3][115] with the victory being followed by a further 30,000 executions by the Nationalists. [152] The overthrow of Catholicism as the explicit state religion of Spain and the establishment of state-sponsored religious pluralism would be completely established in Spain in 1978, with the new Constitution of Spain, three years after Franco's death. 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