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Aids in evacuating Amers from Barcelona
Concepcion, Chilian and 20 towns destroyed
Col J Stilwell warns pedestrians and motorists
Brit reaction to reptd German Army moves
PERPIGNAN, France, Jan. 25.-- Doomed Barcelona was fighting hard at noon today. That is firsthand information, for I was only ten miles from the city at that time and checked with many drivers as well as with the military command-...
1939Spanish Civil War: Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.[†]
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic and included socialists, anarchists, communists, and separatists. The opposing Nationalists who established the Spanish State were an alliance of fascist Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, or a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.