Small wonder the French were wary of a repeat of their own 18th-century terror and could regard fascism not the lesser of two evils but as an actual savior.
Small wonder the French were wary of a repeat of their own 18th-century terror and could regard fascism not the lesser of two evils but as an actual savior.
“It did not just extend to anticlericalism but to confiscation of property, terror, etc.”
Absolutely; Spain did away with any titles of respect as the French addressed everyone as “Citizen (whatever)”, and everybody started wearing farm clothes to avoid being targeted. When Franco won, he nullified any land titles issued from July 1936 through the end of the war in the Communist zone (though by that time many of the original owners were dead - at least the property could remain with surviving family). The US treatment of the generals’ revolt (which originally didn’t even include Franco) to this day is a disgrace; we live in a very post-Christian culture.
I was shocked that the “Nazi Collaborators” series actually ran a commercial in which it described the motives of people involved (opportunist and such); it describes some as trying to “save their people”. For a very one-sided series, I was impressed that the commercial was so frank about what motivated some back then.