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Remembering the volunteers for liberty
If the Spanish Civil War broke out today, would you pay the ultimate price to defend democracy and fight fascism? RICHARD MACKEY and ROBERT MACDONALD tell the story of those who did
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WOULD you give your life in the fight against fascism? Between 1936 and 1939, 526 out of 2,500 International Brigades (IB) volunteers from Britain and Ireland did just that when they lost their lives trying to defend the democratic Spanish Republic during the Spanish civil war.
Other IB volunteers survived but were captured and imprisoned by Spanish dictator Franco’s forces. Some republican prisoners were later sent to the Nazis’ Mathausen concentration camp as political prisoners during the WWII.
During the 1930s, the dangers that growing Spanish, Italian and German fascism posed were ignored by many western governments.
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