Talk:Spanish Civil War

Any help in getting maps together, famous photo's and paintings etc. as well as extracts from some of the writers who fought in the war would be very welcome. Also, I could do with a little help from someone adding more detail to the operations sections as I am only skirting over them with only small detail. Denis Cavanagh 10:20, 17 April 2008 (CDT)

Foreign fighters

Worth noting -- not all the foreign volunteers who aided the Republicans served in the International Brigades. George Orwell, for instance, enlisted with the POUM, a militia unit.

Guernica

I'd been reading about the bombing of Guerneca for decades. A couple of months ago I saw a documentary about Guernica. Its description of the bombing had a relatively small number of relatively low pay-load German planes making many repeated sorties over the course of the bombardment. From my viewing it sounds like the relatively high number of casualties were due to zero civil defense, no Republican fighter cover, and no Republican anti-aircraft weapons.

Our article currently says 1,000 civilians were killed. Weren't there claims, closer to the event, that 10,000 civilians died? Of course, on one level, it doesn't matter if it was one hundred civilians, or a thousand.

The reason I am mentioning this is that I am concerned the stats on Guernica are not very reliable.

also worth noting?

Also worth noting -- Norman Bethune set up the first mobile blank, for the Republicans, before he left for China.

The term "fifth columnist" comes from something Franco wrote. Something about four columns approaching to attack the city of Madrid, from the four cardinal directions, while meanwhile a fifth column was going to rise from within the city itself.

comment

The article currently says that "Basques are an ancient Celtic people". I believe the Basques presence in Spain predates the arrival of the Celts. I believe that their language is one of those unrelated to the Indo-European languages.

Cheers! George Swan 14:36, 30 April 2008 (CDT)