Reacciones y citas claves de capítulo 4: The making of rebel Spain (pt 1)
- E. Erazo
- Jan 23, 2018
- 2 min read
"The democratic ethos underpinning the Republican polity – even if curtailed by wartime imperatives – meant that political disagreements and divisions were also much more visible, while the rebel unity forged from the fragmentation of July 1936 was at least in part the appearance of unity produced by dictatorial techniques. This chapter will explore how rebel Spain was built – ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ – while also analysing the evolving international dimension of the war." (Graham 68)
En este párrafo, Graham mapea su propósito para el capítulo. Hay dos partes - los dimensiones internacionales de la guerra y los métodos de Franco para construir una España rebelde. En este capítulo, estaba más interesado en como Franco ha construido España rebelde y la vida en la España de Franco, especialmente para las mujeres.
El capítulo explica como Franco manipuló el derecho de España con eficacia y habilidad. Unió grupos con conflictos de ideología por un odio común de los republicanos y una afección de la Iglesia Católica.
" What has remained particularly shocking about the air raids to outside observers is that they were occurring in a civil war – Franco was doing it to his ‘own’ people. But of course this was not the Generalísimo’s perception, nor that of his closest comrades-in-arms; theirs was a higher purpose: the purification of ‘Spain’...In other words, the health of the ‘nation’ required the elimination of the industrial proletariat. "(Graham 73)
"After the war of rapidly advancing militia columns in the first months, it now became a guerra de desgaste – a war of attrition. Franco was not an imaginative or innovative strategist, but he did not need to be given the kind of war he envisaged. More than any other rebel commander, Franco understood that the war had to be long and arduous. He actively wanted it to be so – for otherwise his fundamental objective, to prostrate the political enemy, could not be achieved. It thus became a war to control people rather than just territory." ( Graham 73)
También, Graham describe tan impactante es para pensar que Franco estaba tan violente y cruel en sus ataques aéreos contra su propio país. Pero para Franco, él no percibió los republicanos como "su país" pero más como una infección que él tuvo que eliminar. Había elemento físico a esto; no estaba sólo de ideología.
En su progreso lento, Franco no solo trataba de matarlos sino que para romper el espíritu de republicanismo que había "infectado" España con el fin de que él pudo controlar la gente.
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