{"id":3235,"date":"2015-06-16T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T21:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2016-06-19T12:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:34:21","slug":"barcelona-and-the-spanish-civil-war-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/16\/barcelona-and-the-spanish-civil-war-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona and The Spanish Civil War Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This poster recruiting women to join and support the anti-fascist militias was just one of the remarkable graphics\u00a0and photographs shared during this\u00a0tour of civil war history in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

The tour’s guide, Nick Lloyd <\/a>offered a passionate, rich, information-crammed account of the war and the complicated situation\u00a0that preceded and followed it. \u00a0The topic is thrilling, but it’s the teacher – the guide – who makes it real – and he does just that.<\/p>\n

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Spanish Civil War guru Nick Lloyd delivers his lessons and brings clients to the edge of their “seats” — actually, feet….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The stories are stunning. The first: the International Brigades from all over the world who came to help, including the Abraham Lincoln Battalion – the first integrated US military force, \u00a0the second, the alliance among the police, the workers and the community – anarchists, communists, socialists, liberals – all trying to stop the viciousness that was the emerging Fascist machine. \u00a0The next, individual courage demonstrated among so many under cruel, sadistic conditions.<\/p>\n

The women, of course, did find\u00a0a place in the movement. \u00a0This first poster is the emblem of the Anarchist women in Spain. \u00a0The second, was\u00a0for the “people’s Olympics” conducted in protest of the “real” 1936 games in Nazi Germany. \u00a0Young people came from everywhere for the event and many remained to support the struggle to sustain democracy and keep the Fascists at bay. \u00a0And the third – a shattering portrait of American “Negro” contributions to Spain’s struggle.<\/p>\n

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Very few stories combine romance, politics, evil, idealism, danger and courage as well as those surrounding the Spanish Civil War. Some of the stories were so moving they were hard to bear. To the people of Barcelona, they are still real, and tangible and tough\u00a0to hear and recall. For the rest of us, they bring pain and inspiration and sadness at how often similar tragedies have entered our history. \u00a0And never seem to have taught anything to those who came after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This poster recruiting women to join and support the anti-fascist militias was just one of the remarkable graphics\u00a0and photographs shared during this\u00a0tour of civil war history in Barcelona. The tour’s guide, Nick Lloyd offered a passionate, rich, information-crammed account of the war and the complicated situation\u00a0that preceded and followed it. \u00a0The topic is thrilling, but … Continue reading Barcelona and The Spanish Civil War Revealed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,27,9,78,29],"tags":[3312,2612,2252,3884,3313,3315,3314,3280,3311,3310,96,44,1113,231],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-travel","category-women","tag-anarchist","tag-barcelona","tag-communist","tag-culture-book","tag-fascists","tag-franco","tag-hitler","tag-mussolini","tag-socialist","tag-spanish-civil-war","tag-war","tag-women-2","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-Qb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}