Límite Pirineos. Una mirada global a la participación de anarquistas españoles en la Resistencia francesa

Between 1940 and 1945 more than 10,000 Spaniards, thousands of them anarchists, mostly refugees in French territory as a result of the Spanish Civil War, fought in the French Resistance ranks. Incorporated in their interior branch, they participated in the liberation of several departments of the so...

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Main Author: Diego Gaspar Celaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines 2018-01-01
Series:Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/6724
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description Between 1940 and 1945 more than 10,000 Spaniards, thousands of them anarchists, mostly refugees in French territory as a result of the Spanish Civil War, fought in the French Resistance ranks. Incorporated in their interior branch, they participated in the liberation of several departments of the southern France and in the interception of German troops. They also carried out numerous sabotages and released numerous political prisoners of several metropolitan prisons. As part of the armies of free France, the external Resistance, thay fought the Axis troops from Bir Hakeim to Berchtesgaden, passing through the Alamein, Tunisia, Normandy, Rome, Paris or Strasbourg. Overcoming the factors that have made the study of Spanish participation in the French Resistance random for a number of years, this article aims to provide a renovated overview of the Spanish anarchist participation in French Resistance through a detailed analysis of the different resistant commitments carried out by them during the second world conflict. But without giving up a critical look at the historical-cultural approaches and positive myths that have contaminated its history for years.
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spellingShingle Diego Gaspar Celaya
Límite Pirineos. Una mirada global a la participación de anarquistas españoles en la Resistencia francesa
Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
exile
Spanish Civil War
Resistance
Spanish anarchists
World War 2
title Límite Pirineos. Una mirada global a la participación de anarquistas españoles en la Resistencia francesa
title_full Límite Pirineos. Una mirada global a la participación de anarquistas españoles en la Resistencia francesa
title_fullStr Límite Pirineos. Una mirada global a la participación de anarquistas españoles en la Resistencia francesa
title_full_unstemmed Límite Pirineos. Una mirada global a la participación de anarquistas españoles en la Resistencia francesa
title_short Límite Pirineos. Una mirada global a la participación de anarquistas españoles en la Resistencia francesa
title_sort limite pirineos una mirada global a la participacion de anarquistas espanoles en la resistencia francesa
topic exile
Spanish Civil War
Resistance
Spanish anarchists
World War 2
url https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/6724
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