The recent book by Peter Preston uses the term Holocaust and show that Franco killed more Spanish than the Nazis killed Germans.
Reading such dumb things should be funny if the Shoah hadn't been the indescriptible horror it has been. Comparing is often (if not always) pointless. And there are some "things" you just
cannot compare.
It's probably because "the Holocaust" was at task in the francoist Spain that many European and American businessmen invested in it while tons of westerner tourists were spending their holidays on the Spanish beaches from 1950 onwards...
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I didn't know History was now studied through the number of killed people goal-average. If so, Stalin wins head and shoulders with all the flags, bells and whistles. And Pol-Pot is not far. Hurrah.
BTW it's Paul Preston not Peter Preston.
So, once and again : the fascism and the nazism were some true (sick and criminal)
ideologies wanting to build a "new world" (which for one of the two should last for one thousand years, remember ?).
The francoism wasn't anything but some negativism and deny about everything considered modern and free (and atheist) and the desperate expression of the will of maintaining Spain where it socially and politically was during, say, the XVIIIth century.
To achieve that, the methods were : first, terrible civil war, with the efficient help of fascist and nazi troops and bombing planes ; hardest repression ; mass murders ; persecutions ; special police ; special prisons ; no freedom ; no democracy ; no free elections ; army at power ; no other political party allowed. All in all what any casual strong dictature is caracterized with. At the very end, the goal was to re-establish the holy-rights monarchy, thanks to a young man whom Franco was considering immature, not very clever, and a simple toy in the hands of the army. We've all seen how it turned out eventually.
