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Friend or Foe? - Occupation, Collaboration and Selective Violence in the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)
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Friend or Foe? - Occupation, Collaboration and Selective Violence in the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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'Today with the Red Army captive and disarmed, the Nationalist
[nacionales] troops have achieved their final military objectives.
The war is over.' With these two sentences, on 1 April 1939,
General Franco announced that his writ ran across the whole of
Spain. His words marked a high point for those who had flocked to
Franco's side and since the start of the Civil War in July 1936 had
carried out what they regarded as the steady occupation of the
country. The history of this occupation remains conspicuous by its
absence and the term occupation lies discredited for many
historians. The danger of leaving the history of the occupation
unexplored, however, is that a major process designed to control
the conquered population remains in the shadows and, unlike many
other European countries, the view of occupation as an imposition
by outsiders remains unchallenged. This book explores how Francoist
occupation saw members of the state and society collaborate to win
control of Spanish society. At the heart of the process lay the
challenging task in civil war of distinguishing between supporter
and opponent. Occupation also witnessed a move from arbitrary
violence towards selecting opponents for carefully graded
punishment. Such selection depended upon fine-grained information
about vast swathes of the population. The massive scale of the
surveillance meant that regime officials depended on collaborators
within the community to furnish them with the information needed to
write huge numbers of biographies. Accordingly, knowledge as a form
of power became as crucial as naked force as neighbours of the
defeated helped define who would gain reward as a friend and who
would suffer punishment as a foe.
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