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Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish military general and politician who was the leader of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. He led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain.
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entertainment · Dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975 · military officer · spanish legionary · military leader · politician · governor · screenwriter · film actor · Leader of Francoist Spain from 1939 to 1975 · also Francisco Franco, Francisco Franco y Bahamonde, General Franco, El Caudillo, Generalísimo, Franco
Born 4 December 1892 · Died 20 November 1975 · Q29179
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The American book Unhumans by Jack Posobiec lauded Franco as a hero
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Two Spanish scholars, Manuel Álvarez Tardío and Roberto Villa García published the result of a major research work in which they concluded that the 1936 elections were rigged, a view disputed by Paul Preston, and other s
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Documents were discovered showing that on 13 May 1941, Franco had ordered his provincial governors to compile a list of Jews while he negotiated an alliance with the Axis powers
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To join the panel of experts in the first judicial investigation, conducted by judge Baltasar Garzón, of Francoist crimes, as well as historians Josep Fontana and Hugh Thomas, estimate deaths in the White Terror to be ar
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Banned all official public references to the Franco regime and began the removal of all statues, street names and memorials associated with the regime, with the last statue reportedly being removed in 2008 in the city of
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A poll indicated that almost two-thirds of Spaniards favoured a "fresh investigation into the war"
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The BBC reported that Maciej Giertych, an MEP of the clerical-nationalist League of Polish Families, had expressed admiration for Franco, stating that the Spanish
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And is directed by the social-democratic deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
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Carmen Polo was receiving a pension of over 12
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Three years after Franco's death, with the new Constitution of Spain, the overthrow of Catholicism as the explicit state religion of Spain and the establishment of state-sponsored religious pluralism would be realised in
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Died 1975-11-20.
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“(es) Mire, yo estoy convencido de que la Masonería es muy buena en Inglaterra para Inglaterra; lo malo es que en España sigue siendo muy buena para Inglaterra”
“Yo no haré la tontería que hizo Primo de Rivera. Yo no dimito. De aquí al cementerio.”
“Usted haga como yo y no se meta en política.”
“To Foster Dulles, Secretary of State of the United States.”
“Non siamo neutrali. Siamo non belligeranti.”
“Voy a seguir adelante. Avanzaré sobre Madrid. Lo haré cueste lo que cueste. Salvaré España de los comunistas y la pacificaré.”
“We do not rule out that it will change in the future, but for now it is. I am convinced that Masonry is very good for England in England; the bad thing is that in Spain it is still very good for England.”
“Não tenhamos ilusões. O espírito judaico, que foi responsável pela aliança do grande capital com o marxismo e foi a força motriz de tantos acordos revolucionários antiespanhóis, não será eliminado em um dia.”
“Non ci sarà alcun comunismo.”
“La falta más grave que puede cometer un oficial: pegar a un soldado.”
“Komünistler bir solucan gibi ezilmiş olmalı.”
“Francisco Franco, general que liderou a Guerra Civil Espanhola e se manteve no poder por 36 anos; citado em Revista Veja, Século 20”
“[Commentando le fotografie, esaminate con una lente d'ingrandimento, del corpo di Benito Mussolini appeso a piazzale Loreto] Lo hanno legato male.”
“Ahora se habla de democracia. Nosotros, los españoles, ya la hemos conocido. Y no nos dio resultado. Cuando otros van hacia la democracia, nosotros ya estamos de vuelta. Estamos dispuestos a sentarnos en la meta y esperar a que los otros regresen también.”
“Ben sadece Tanrı ve tarihe karşı sorumluyum.”
“Nosso regime apoia-se em baionetas e sangue, não em eleições hipócritas.”
“Impegniamoci per formare un solo fronte nazionale... contro Mosca e le società marxiste.”
“Ultime discours de Franco le 1er octobre 1975 sur la Place d'Orient à Madrid”
“Ülkesi İspanya’yı iç savaşa sürükleyen ve ardından 36 yıl boyunca iktidarda kalan Franco hiçbir zaman ‘devrik lider’ konumuna düşmedi. İktidardayken hastalandı. Ziyaretine gelenler için ‘Neden geldiler’ diye sorarken ‘Hoşçakal demek için’ yanıtı verildiğinde ‘Nereye gidiyorlar’ demesi yanındakileri şaşırtmıştı. 20 Kasım 1975’te öldü.”
“We have torn up Marxist materialism and we have disorientated Masonry. We have thwarted the Satanic machinations of the clandestine Masonic superstate. Despite its control of the world’s press and numerous international politicians. Spain’s struggle is a Crusade; as soldiers of God we carry with us the evangelism of the world!”
“The defence of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation's armed forces and that is what we have carried out.”
“Asyalı ve Filipinli öğrencilerle kıyaslandığında Amerikalı öğrenciler daha açık ve dürüstler. Bu bana öğrencileri nasıl deneyebileceğim ve nasıl anlayabileceğim konusunda en büyük dersi verdi.”
“We strive to form a single national front against the Masonic lodges, aginst Moscow and the Marxist societies.”
“One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism.”
“Senza avere una propria ideologia nettamente definita, tranne quella del rispetto per la tradizione e per la disciplina, Franco era abbastanza scettico da non prendere troppo sul serio i suoi seguaci, comunque non più di quanto meritassero. (H. Stuart Hughes)”
“Francisco Franco ha lasciato in eredità l'ordine. In Spagna funziona tutto e funziona bene, ci sono educazione, pulizia, rispetto e poca burocrazia. (Fabio Capello)”
“È il tipo del perfetto hidalgo: statura media, fronte alta, capelli neri con qualche filo d'argento, volto buono ed energico insieme, dallo sguardo d'acciaio e di velluto a un tempo. (Carlo Boselli)”
“Lors d'une discussion avec le secrétaire d'État américain John Foster Dulles.”
Spain still lagged behind most of Western Europe but the gap between its per capita GDP and that of the leading Western European countries had narrowed greatly, and the country had developed a large industrialised econom
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“Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead”
With the Green March, did Morocco take control of all of the former Spanish territories in the Sahara
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Aged 82, and was entombed in the Valley of the Fallen
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When Spain received condemnation by the United Nations General Assembly for the execution of ETA and FRAP militants
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Franco resigned as prime minister—separated from the office of head of state since 1967—due to his advanced age and illness
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Won Battle of Lepanto 4th Centenary Medal (1971).
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Franco formally nominated as his heir-apparent Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón, whose family sent him to Spain at age 10 to be educated there during Franco's reign, with the new title of Prince of Spain, suggested by Laurea
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Under pressure from the United Nations, Spain granted Equatorial Guinea its independence, and the following year it ceded Ifni to Morocco
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Franco's Spain was able to utilise its positive relationship with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Arab world (due to not having recognised the Israeli state) to allow 800 Egyptian Jews, many of Sephardic an
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders (1962).
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The ETA armed group was created to wage a low-intensity war against Franco
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Buckley called him "an authentic national hero", who "above others", had the qualities needed to wrest Spain from "the hands of the visionaries, ideologues, Marxists and nihilists"
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Surrendered the territories of the Spanish protectorate to the new-born state, retaining only a few cities (the Plazas de soberanía)
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Awarded Supreme Order of Christ (1954).
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“From Franco's speech at the 1952 International Eucharistic Congress held in Barcelona. As quoted in”
“Writing under the alias Jakin Boor in the journal Arriba in an article, "Masonry and Communism" (14 December 1946), as quoted in Franco: A Biography by Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúạ, p. 71”
And soon developed an "obsession" with the importance of the "Jewish card" in relations with the former Allied powers
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A group of republican veterans from the French resistance invaded the Val d'Aran in northwest Catalonia but were quickly defeated
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“Looking Back on the Spanish War”
When Franco convened a parliament known as the Cortes Españolas
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Hermenegild (1941).
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The prison population of Spain was 233,000, mostly political prisoners
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Alfonso X (1940).
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Awarded War Grand Cross (1939).
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Awarded Grand Collar of the Military Order of the Tower and Sword (1939).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Ferdinand (1939).
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“Dal 1939 fino alla sua morte Franco governò la Spagna come fosse un paese straniero sotto occupazione, il suo esercito aveva un addestramento, una forma di spiegamento e una struttura che lo rendevano più adatto ad agire contro la popolazione nativa che contro un nemico esterno.”
“Victory speech in Madrid (19 May 1939)”
While the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) went underground
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“Em Madri, no discurso da sua vitória 19 de maio de 1939”
“Victory speech in Madrid (19 May 1939), quoted in Espana Nuevo Siglo (1997) by Tim Connell and Juan Kattán-Ibarra, p. 174”
“In discussion with Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, as quoted in Francisco Franco : The Times and the Man (1938) by Joaquin Arraras, p. 159”
“Statement during the civil war, cited in 1938 by Time magazine, also cited in John A. Crittenden, Parties and elections in the United States, Prentice-Hall, 1982, (p.6).”
“Franco Interview with Henri Massis, 1938. Quoted in Massis's book Chefs, Paris,Plon 1939.Also quoted in Richard Griffiths, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Fascism. London : Duckworth Publishing, 2000.”
The Marcha Real ("Royal March") was restored by decree as the national anthem in the Nationalist zone
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Franco assumed as the tentative doctrine of his regime 26 out of the original 27 points
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“Statement in El defensor de Córdoba (24 July 1936), as cited by Javier Navarrete in Más Allá”
Campaign: 1936 general election.
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“It's true. They have everything. Everything except reason.”
Career landmark: Capitán General de Canarias (1936–1936).
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Career landmark: commander-in-chief (1936).
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Career landmark: Head of State of Spain (1936–1975).
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Career landmark: head of government of Spain (1936–1973).
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“Statement in El defensor de Córdoba (2 October 1936), as cited by Agustín Celis”
Awarded Knight Grand Officer of the Order of Saint Hermenegild (1935).
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Career landmark: general in chief (1935–1935).
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Career landmark: Chief of Staff of the Army (1935–1936).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Cross of Military Merit with White Decoration (1934).
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Career landmark: Capitán general de las Islas Baleares (1933–1935).
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The Jesuits, who were in charge of many schools throughout the country, were banned and had all their property confiscated
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And was devastated by the closing of his academy; nevertheless, he continued his service in the Republican Army
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1930).
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Franco was appointed director of the newly created General Military Academy of Zaragoza, a new college for all Spanish army cadets, replacing the former separate institutions for young men seeking to become officers in i
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Career landmark: Director of the General Military Academy (1928–1931).
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Career landmark: Director of the General Military Academy (1927–1931).
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Awarded Cross of Naval Merit with red badge (1926).
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Won Medal of Suffering for the Fatherland (1925).
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Now a lieutenant colonel, he was made commander of the Legion
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Career landmark: commander-in-chief (1923–1926).
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Won Military Medal of Spain (1922).
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Career landmark: commander-in-chief (1920).
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Lieutenant Colonel José Millán Astray, a histrionic but charismatic officer, founded the Spanish Foreign Legion, along similar lines to the French Foreign Legion
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Aged 23 with the rank of captain, Franco was shot in the abdomen by guerrilla gunfire during an assault on Moroccan positions at El Biutz, in the hills near Ceuta; this was the only time he was wounded in ten years of fi
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Awarded Royal and Military Order of Maria Christina (1914).
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Franco transferred into the newly formed regulares: Moroccan colonial troops with Spanish officers, who acted as elite shock troops
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Awarded Cross of Military Merit with Red Decoration (1912).
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Studied at Toledo Infantry Academy (1910).
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Against native Moroccans, the first of several Riffian rebellions
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Entered the Infantry Academy in Toledo
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Born 1892-12-04.
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In the Church of San Francisco in El Ferrol
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