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A Spanish Civil War-era grave believed to hold the remains of the acclaimed poet Federico Garcia Lorca will be dug up in two to three weeks, an official said Monday, in the most high-profile step yet in a drive for Spain to address atrocities committed against civilians during that ruinous conflict.
Robert Capa's photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman became one of the most famous and enduring images of conflict in the 20th century. Now, Spanish researchers who have studied events surrounding the picture believe it may have been staged.
In 1937, John Hovan volunteered to travel to Spain and fight on the side of democracy against Gen. Francisco Franco's fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War.
Experts who examined a cache of long-lost photos from the 1930s Spanish Civil War say it yielded a lot of new information, but failed to solve the biggest mystery — whether legendary photojournalist Robert Capa took the famous picture of a man at the instant he was killed by a bullet.
Spanish prosecutors on Monday appealed a judge's decision to launch a criminal probe of atrocities committed during the country's Civil War, citing a 1977 amnesty passed to help Spaniards put the war behind them.
The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War.
Doctors extracted a bullet from an 88-year-old man, recovering a piece of ordnance that eluded medics 70 years ago when he was shot in the Spanish Civil War.
A glance at the causes and outcome of the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War:
Lorca's skeleton speaks of a new Spain - communal graves of Civil War victims finally being excavated"It was five in the afternoon – precisely five in the afternoon". Thus begins the saddest and most beautiful poem in the Spanish language, "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías".
Civil Wars - The Fights That Do Not Want to End Last week, after more than 25 years of conflict, the Tamil separatists of Sri Lanka admitted defeat in their war for an independent homeland.
New Works by Photography's Old Masters When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fea …
Relatives of Spanish exiles eligible for citizenship | France 24Hundreds of thousands of relatives of Spaniards who sought exile from the country's civil war and ensuing dictatorship can apply for Spanish nationality from Monday, an association for exiles said. Under legislation that went into effect Saturday, up to half a million forei …
Spain to help families track Franco-era victims' remains MADRID (AFP) – Spain on Wednesday promised to help families of victims who disappeared during the 1936-39 civil war and the ensuing dictatorship of General Francisco Franco to track their remains. The government will "help families seeking (the bodies) all possible help they m …
Papa Hemingway's Gift to the Fire-in-the-Belly Crowd -- Obama, McCain, & other anti-Fascists...Robert Jordan is a left-wing radical, or was modeled after several of them. He palled around with terrorists, or at least people whom many Americans, of his era and beyond, so thought. His specialty is blowing things up for a cause.
A painful past uncoveredFor decades, the whereabouts of thousands executed in Spain under Franco's rule have remained a mystery. Now the exhumation of mass graves is reuniting relatives with their loved ones' remains - and revealing the country's dark history.
John Rujevcic Gerlach, 1915-2008At the ripe age of 93, John R.
America's Guernica: 100,000 pounds of bombs dropped on Iraq villageOn April 27, 1937, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War (a prelude to World War II), the planes of the German Condor Legion attacked the ancient Basque town of Guernica. They came in waves, first carpet bombing, then dropping thermite incendiaries.
Milton Wolff, 92, Dies; Anti-Franco Leader Milton Wolff, the last commander of the American volunteers who fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War and the longtime commander of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, died Monday in Berkeley, Calif. He was 92.
In Spain, a Monumental Silence [Excerpted from article:] LAST month Spain passed a law that doesn't make much sense, on its face, but says quite a lot about Europe in the new century.
Masters of Photography - Robert CapaRobert Capa (Budapest, October 22, 1913 -- May 25, 1954) was an acclaimed 20th century combat photographer who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War.
Civil war monument to British volunteers stolenA monument to the British dead at one of the bloodiest encounters of the Spanish civil war has been torn down and carried away by rightwing extremists.
Hitler's Destruction of Guernica: Practicing Blitzkrieg in Basque Country The attack quickly became the symbol of senseless destruction and for Nazi brutality: Exactly 70 years ago, the Condor Legion rained death down on the Spanish town of Guernica. For the Germans, it was little more than a training run.
Masterpiece stirs Spanish tensions 70 years on Picasso's Guernica, the painting that epitomises the horrors of modern warfare, has sparked a new battle after a request to return it to its spiritual home was denied by Spain's capital.
One in three Spaniards still back FrancoOur top story tonight: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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