Home > Work > The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century QUOTES

The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century QUOTES

1 " This “cleansing” violence, or limpieza, claimed its most famous victim in the poet Federico García Lorca, "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

2 " They would become the migrant labourers who made the “economic miracles” in Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

3 " There were also (though more unusually) refugee children who were kidnapped from France by the Falange’s external “repatriation” service and then placed, not with their families, but in Francoist state institutions.65 "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

4 " those who had been obliged to be silent for nearly forty years were once again being told that there could be no public recognition of their past lives or memories. "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

5 " the past that has not passed away "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

6 " Baltasar Garzón, "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

7 " this was a war waged predominantly upon civilians;5 moreover millions of them were killed not by invaders and strangers, but by their own compatriots, including their own neighbours. "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

8 " the core narrative of how society is organized and how it is reciprocally explained by its inhabitants with reference to a set of collective values deemed appropriate to underpin it. "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

9 " an image of the city, becoming fixed upon it as a threat and above all as a source of destabilization. "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

10 " coming to terms with the city” – "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

11 " the gentry pact came to be constituted as an audience for radical new incarnations of conservative nationalism, "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

12 " these boys chipping at the rigidities of social deference, in search of a place, a voice. In Spain too the old power seemed to be dying, but slowly and viciously and, as it turned out, not yet. Nor would it depart in the way scripted by Republican reformers, and not before in its passing it claimed from that generation a barbaric tribute, exacted in the coin of “national cleansing "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

13 " Somatén "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

14 " Politics in the 1930s was not a “personal option”, not something they could take or leave, be or not be. It was a molten flow engulfing the world to remake it, taking possession of personal lives, whether their owners willed it or not, "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

15 " the categories of Jewish people excluded often at that time mirrored the profile of non-ethnic social and political cleansing elsewhere. "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

16 " similarities between Francoism and Stalinism.) "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

17 " A [ … ] percentage of the continent’s population had become quite accustomed to the thought that they were outcasts. They could be divided into two main categories: people doomed by biological accident of their race and people doomed for their metaphysical creed or rational conviction regarding the best way to organise human welfare. "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

18 " cold war-derived failure internationally to condemn, or even to recognize, the scale of the abuses committed by the Franco regime "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

19 " Le Vernet, like Gurs and a small number of the other camps across the south-west, was expressly conceived as a punishment or disciplinary camp. "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

20 " Thus a Western order that retrospectively mythologized its opposition to Nazism as opposition to the camp universe, and which denounced this too as the ultimate offence of Stalinism, patronised a regime in Spain that was, like the Soviet Union’s, based on mass murder and its own gulag. "

― Helen Graham , The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century