The Role of the Nationalists in the War in Spain

During the early months of the Spanish Civil War there was a general sense of chaos and uncertainty about who was and was not the enemy. On both sides there were atrocities, terror, repression, murder and other types of abuse against anyone and everyone suspected of aiding or supporting the enemy regardless of who the enemy actually was. We will focus most of our discussions in this episode on these early months. A more holistic discussion of the scale and savagery of the violence experienced by those in Spain during the Civil War will have to wait until later in the series.