The nations who supported the Republicans were more justified in their support because Republicans wanted the best for their people. Many British citizens were willing to volunteer to fight with the Republicans because “of their growing alienation from a society that had failed miserably to meet the needs of so many people” (Docs. C & D). The Conservative Government forbade citizens from volunteering but many were able to leave the country and volunteer anyway. Many citizens were workers who were a part of trade unions and had a deep repugnance towards the persecution of individuals and fascism. In order to help the Republicans advance, they had to defeat Franco since his main help was “in machines-aircraft and tanks…[because] he had nothing beyond a few obsolete machines” (Docs. C & D). Russian tanks began to arrive at the end of July whereas the first round of German tanks arrived in September. Russian tanks were heavier but heavily armed, with their weaponry, they were able to capture many soldiers. Altogether, nations that supported the Republicans were more justified because they were fighting for their people.

Period 6

Claim F

Franco was unjustified in his tactics during the Civil War. Franco kept a war diary where in 1922 it, "lovingly describes Moroccan villages destroyed and having their defenders decapitated" (Preston). Franco enjoyed humiliating his captives and supported the decapitation of his enemies. His troops would return from raids carrying severed heads of inhabitants. His very tactics relied on a, "programme of terror and extermination [and] was central to their planning" (Preston). Franco used terror and fear as a way to control the urban and rural classes because of their large numbers. His troops left a trail of death in their wake during their march to the capital.

The nations who supported the Republicans were justified because the Nationalists who were on Franco's side's reasoning for the mass slaughter was "based on the need to justify the military coup against the democratically elected government" (Preston 519-520). The Nationalists were killing the people of Spain because they believed they were cleansing their society justifying their beliefs with the Jewish-Bolshevik-Masonic conspiracy. The Nationalists painted an untrue portrayal of the Republicans by "collaborat[ing with the Catholic Church] to publicize and exaggerate atrocities in the Republican zone" (Preston 519-520). The Nationalists gained the support of their people by portraying their opponent as barbaric and violent so the people of Spain would accept the slaughter of the Jewish-Bolshevik-Masonic people of their country. The people began viewing the Republicans as evil people as "the Franco regime made a powerfully sustained attempt to brainwash its population" while "the atrocities...committed by the rebels" were encouraged by the government and highly viewed statuses (Preston 519-520). The Republicans, through all of this fought for "the need of organization and order in civilian life" disproving the picture painted by the Nationalists (Alexander). The Republicans were fighting against the Nationalists not to stop a better world, according to the Nationalists, but for a safer one where they believed they could get to without having to kill people and cleanse themselves of things and people and their beliefs /////// which some people thought were wrong while to others made perfect sense. {the nationalists thought the conspiracy peeps were evil and unpure while the republicans were ok with them & the peeps themselves saw themselves as living the correct lifestyle.}

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