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Throughout World War II, Spanish diplomats of the Franco government extended their protection to Eastern European Jews, especially in Hungary. Jews claiming Spanish ancestry were provided with Spanish documentation without being required to prove their case and either left for Spain or survived the war with the help of their new legal status in ...
The Decree came to change the Spanish education system from top to bottom. Article 1 renamed the Provincial Institutes of Secondary Education as General and Technical Institutes, and established their teachings: 1.° General studies of the degree of Bachelor. 2.° Elementary and higher studies of the Magisterio de Primera Enseñanza.
With the new Spanish Constitution of 1978, education was guaranteed as a right for all Spaniards. [11] The end of the Franco period saw a demand in many new services from the state as a result of previous suppression of these needs by the regime. This included areas of education. [2]
When, in 1939, World War II erupted in Europe, Catalonia was part of Spain led by the caudillo Francisco Franco, who declared Spain neutral in the conflict.The country was devastated by the recently finished Spanish Civil War, which resulted in the defeat of the Second Spanish Republic and the creation of the Spanish State, and Catalonia, who was an autonomous region under the Republican ...
Stanley G. Payne described Sanz Briz's actions as "a notable humanitarian achievement by far the most outstanding of anyone in Spanish government during World War II" but, comparing him with the Swedish consul Raoul Wallenberg, argued that Sanz Briz "might have accomplished even more had he received greater assistance from Madrid". [11]
Francoist Spain (Spanish: España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.
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He was arrested by Spanish authorities on 20 July and ultimately expelled from Spain. [10] [11] From 1936 to 1940, a French detachment was garrisoned in Andorra to prevent encroachment as a result of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Spain. [12] During World War II, Andorra remained neutral and was an important smuggling route from Spain into ...