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> The Spanish Civil War - 1 Of 6 - Prelude To Tragedy.avi
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> The Spanish Civil War - 2 Of 6 - Revolution, Counter-Revolution & Terror.avi
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> The Spanish Civil War - 3 Of 6 - Battleground For Idealists.avi
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> The Spanish Civil War - 4 Of 6 - Franco And The Nationalists.avi
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> The Spanish Civil War - 5 Of 6 - Inside The Revolution.avi
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> The Spanish Civil War - 6 Of 6 - Victory And Defeat.avi
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> Six-part documentary series which uses film and eyewitness accounts
> from both sides of the conflict that divided Spain in the years leading
> up to World War Two, also placing it in its international context.
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> 1 - PRELUDE TO TRAGEDY 1931-36
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> First in a six-part series. Looks at the background to the war: the
> five turbulent years that led to the crisis in July 1936 when a group
> of generals rose to overthrow the Republican government.
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> 2 - REVOLUTION, COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND TERROR
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> Considers the fact that half the Spanish Civil War's victims died
> behind the lines, not in battle, but by political execution.
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> 3 - BATTLEGROUND FOR IDEALISTS
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> The people who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War including the
> International Brigade, the Nazi Condor Legion and Italian Blackshirts,
> and the help supplied by the Soviet Union.
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> 4 - FRANCO AND THE NATIONALISTS
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> This part deals with the character of Franco and the make up of the
> Nationalist side. It includes footage of the Spanish Civil War and
> interviews with participants.
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> 5 - INSIDE THE REVOLUTION
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> This part deals with the activities of Communists, Socialists and
> Anarchists on the Republican side.
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> 6 - VICTORY AND DEFEAT
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> The fate of the Spanish Republic was sealed at the battle of the Rio
> Ebro, which was a battle not only for ground, but for time. If the
> Republic could hold out long enough it might be rescued by the
> anti-Fascist forces in a forseeable European war, but the appeasement
> of HItler at Munich in September of 1938 dashed those hopes.
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> The Battle of the Ebro was the most costly confrontation of the Civil
> War, doubly so for the Republicans, as it came on the heels of two
> years of bitter-but-unsuccessful fighting, The confrontation on the
> Ebro looked promising at the beginning, as the Republican troops
> succeeded in crossing the river and advancing 25 kilometers.
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> But a counter attack by the Franco forces converted the struggle into a
> static battle of attrition, in which the Republican forces were
> people of Barcelona had given up hope of defending the city. Many of
> were to join the lines of refugees headed for the French border on
> foot, some of them suffering cruel hardships crossing the Pyrenees in
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> At this point the Republican president, Juan Negrin, facing a revolt
> led by his commander in Madrid, threw in the towel. He and his
> government abandoned the provisional Republican capital at Alicante for
> exile. The war was over and the Nationalist executions began. Some
> 200,000 Republicans were sent to prison where many were summarily
> executed and some spent the next 25 years.
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