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Architects of Terror - Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
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Architects of Terror - Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
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From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston,
Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy
and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and
enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and
persecution. It is the previously untold story of how antisemitic
beliefs were weaponised to justify and propagate the Franco
overthrow of liberal Spain. The Spanish military coup of 1936 was
launched to overturn the social and economic reforms of the
democratic Second Republic, and its educational and cultural
challenges to the established order. The consequent civil war was
fought in the interests of the landowners, industrialists, bankers,
clerics and army officers whose privileges were threatened.
However, a central justification for a war that took the lives of
around 500,000 Spaniards was that it was being fought to combat an
alleged scheme for world domination by a non-existent ‘Jewish-
Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy’. Despite the fact that Spain had
only a tiny minority of Jews and Freemasons, Franco and his inner
circle were ardent believers in this fabricated conspiracy and
spread the notion that the survival of Catholic Spain, as well, of
course, of the establishment ’ s economic interests, required the
total annihilation of Jews and Freemasons. Architects of Terror is
the story of how fake news, mendacity, corruption and nostalgia for
lost empire generated violence and hatred. The book presents vivid
portraits of the key ideologues who propagated the myth of the
Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy and of the military figures who
implemented the atrocities that it justified. Among the convictions
shared by these individuals was their belief in the idea that
Freemasonry was responsible for Spain ’ s loss of empire and in
the factual veracity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the
notorious fiction about the global domination of the Jews. This is
a history that reverberates in our own political moment
General
Imprint: |
William Collins Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
Authors: |
Paul Preston
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
464 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-852215-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-00-852215-4 |
Barcode: |
9780008522155 |
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