Franco after World War 2 - Spain's Forgotten Dictatorship Ep. 3 | Documentary 

He is featured in this documentary.

It's just another british viewpoint of Franco

He was a hypocrite and a turncoat.

Because Putting spain First and Not involving themselves in another world war IS somehow treasonous

As did Salazar

@@LarzGustafsson; He was Catholic first, second, and third. Everything else was just background noise.

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If you live in the USA,this view of events is suppressed.

Check out BBC/Granada's 6 part documentary series on the Spanish Civil War (1979?). All the episodes are on YT. It's probably the best documentary ever made.

You may like to read "Ghosts of Spain" by Giles Tremlett and "Guernica" by Dave Boling. You may be able to get them second hand from world of Books or Abe Books.

@@SuperRosie123 / READ??!!

Yeah, that was a real knee-slapper.

yeah Nicuragua and Chile wants a word

@@SwedishDrunkard5963 Nicaragua did become a democracy until Ortega was voted back in, and Chile is one today. Cuba and Venezuela...different story.

@@MoeHamHead-bx7og I dont think you understand at what time period im refering to

@@SwedishDrunkard5963 I do. And those countries eventually became democracies, whereas countries which clung to socialism did not.

Not true

Franco extremist murderer officer

You can make this argument for every system

Answer for what? That NKVD Republican death squads burned churches and killed priests? No wonder they came in power, that had to stop

Pinochet on record had mentioned he was deeply inspired by Franco.

Today Chile has the highest GDP, the lowest corruption and narco terror in S america

@@Vancouverpillmuncher666 Not thanks to Pinochet. Chile reached this achievements after Pinochet.

​@@Vancouverpillmuncher666after becoming a democracy

@@Vancouverpillmuncher666 No thanks to Franco. Pinochet had prisoners tortured, and thrown out of planes. isn't that what the Colombian narco-barons used to do also ? Maybe their role model. And Franco had his opponents disappeared even after assuming geographic control. In "Nacht und Nebel" style.

The voice of sanity in the YouTUBE comments. Will wonders never cease! 😊

@@DoubleMrE No actual argument, just "I know more than you know."

@@hurryandleave9680 How do you know that? -jk 😊

@@DoubleMrE He didn't say how the commenters he's criticizing are wrong.

@@hurryandleave9680 Whatever. Like I said, I was jk. ✌️

Just stop already, oblique parallels, maybe, and if there are, I like it.

They are nothing alike, Franco never allowed ex-communists any wealth or went to war and had allowed the US to set up bases in his country

@@royale7620; Well, we do have one base there, Base Naval de Rota. I do not object to it. I have been there and it's O.K. in my book.

Franco left most of the Spanish people poor throughout his dictatorship. There was very little middle class. Clothes were so expensive that women wore housecoats in winter and if you got a runner in your hose you stitched them. That's just a couple of examples and these took place during the last few years of his life while I was living in Spain. I've since been back after his death and is when people gained economic freedom. As well as freedom of speech, press, etc. He was oppressive, abusive and a fkn dictator!

Women had to get a man's permission to travel

@@helpingus7135 it least they had a chance to travel. it wasn’t too long ago (60s) where in the U.S., women (wives) could not obtain credit cards or checking accounts without their husband’s permission and signature.

To say Franco "led ...nation[s] to peace..." misrepresents the militarist scum's project - and he only wanted prosperity to secure his grip on power, for his clique of pigs to gorge at the trough. To bribe them into loyalty & dependence

"Peace?" Franco murdered at least half-a-million Spaniards after the civil war and kidnapped tens-of-thousands of children!

De Gaulle´s France Government, between 1945 and 1948, purged (or allowed to be purged) about 300,000 collaborationist officers of the Vichy Regime .

Spain had the fastest growing economy in the world under Franco, second only to Japan in the same period. Wtf are you talking about?

Nor by his Spanish heroes.

Indeed 😄sarcasm ftw.

Yes, people seem to be divided by their preferred flavours of authoritarianism. So sad.

At least they didnt butcher spaniards...

@@sinnopal1 didn’t butcher Spaniards? Didn’t kill unarmed civilians at Paracuellos? Didn’t burn churches and kill Spaniards for just being Catholic?

And Franco. They are all one mould with the same gruesome "tools". No difference here, sorry.

​@@gerdlunau8411Communist apologetic

You really don’t understand much…see what Stalin did…. Only a few thousand ever came home again of the hundreds of thousands captured. I read recently that he purposely gave a higher calorie diet to his Japanese prisoners mostly because they weren’t German

You mean what they did to themselves for starting the war,

@@Lamont-fy2xj You don’t treat soldiers like that If you think it’s ok then it’s no different saying what we are told happened to Jews is ok Do you think that’s ok?

Eisenhower did really dirty to Germans.

Hitler's Wehrmacht let thousands and thousands of Soviet POWs starve and freeze to death while advancing East in 1941-1943. They did it on purpose. My grandfather (ex-Wehrmacht soldier and NSDAP-member) was captured by the end of WW2 and put into a Soviet POW camp. He returned in the early 50s as one of the very last ones, totally exhausted and sick. It took him years to recover. But he never complained about it with a single word; always defending his Soviet guards. He told us time and time again, that they all received exactly the same meagre rations. The USSR with its huge wheat and corn fields in her liberated areas (but also his vast industries being all but destroyed) of Western Russia, Baltics, Belorussia and the Ukraine had no harvest in 1945. The fields were mined and littered with wrecked military equipment and ammunition, the farmers still in the army or dead and all the livestock decimated by the attacking Wehrmacht and then sweeping back Red Army. in wartime there is no farming! So how could the USSR feed anyone properly, their own folks or even the POWs? This is all self-explaining. With other words, in 1945 the whole USSR starved badly as many many other countries in Europe (West and East) did. The Western allies too had huge problems feeding their own population and POW-camps. Food stamps were the norm everywhere! My other grandfather was held in an American POW camp, they also camped in the open without toilets and had very little to eat and drink. Also, in the European POW camps of the USSR there were no Japanese POWs, just look at the map. Also the Red Army fought the Japanese only shortly, a few weeks after May 8th of 1945 until the Japanese surrender. Therefore the USSR should not have captured too many Japanese POWs. They preferred to die in battle anyway, being bulldozed by T34s. It is a tragedy that people particular in the "West" know so little about the Eastern theater of war (WW2) and the USSR in particular. It is amazing what weird claims and guesswork I found time and time again in these commentary lines. My impression is, that as soon as it has something to do with the USSR or Russia (being permanently thrown into one bucket anyway) it must "appear" inhuman, bad, backward, poor, drunken, horrible, silly etc. at any cost. Who of you people actually know this country and a bit of its history, to be permanently so biased? I travelled the world all over, including extensively the USSR and the PR China. It is time for us in the West to get our noses down quickly, anything else is dangerous (see Ukrainian war). Peace! from Dresden / Germany @@davidhatton583

Well, I never knew my great grandfather from Spain, but they left because of Franco to live in Cuba. I didn't know how close to me this history and this man played out as I'm cuban. All I know they left avoiding military service, one of them and the other for economic reason. Its fascinating to say the least.

Why did your house keeper leave Spain?

😂😂😂😂

Because Spain is not as important as other nations.

Anglos are profoundly hispanofobic.

Eh? A massive civil war and 40 years of brutal dictatorship?

How so?

You mean democracy? The monarchy was around and doing fine during Franco's regime.

@@Djamonja you're right but it was powerless. Whatever the case I will need another episode to finalize this whole series.

@@Djamonja there was no king during Franco’s rule. What are you talking about?

@@Cobe1976 There was a king in exile wasn't there?

And Portugal.😊

Don't forget the American dictators Lincoln, Wilson, FDR and Biden.

Cry harder.

Yes they are giving me the ick too.

It's just a sad sign of virginity in old age and how they have not achieved anything in life :(

He was one of the very few WHO kept His Nation Out of the world war an achievement so called peaceful nations didnt achieve.

@@laisphinto6372 Sitting on the sidelines while the world burns while also suppressing your people's right to free expression and stealing your enemies children is NOT an achievement to be celebrated. It deserves condemnation, and it is really really really weird that you believe otherwise. You are endorsing an oppressive tyrannical kidnapping murdering regime. Do you get that????

Now they have aligned themselves with the rainbow, gender confused left, so this travesty will only get worse.

No, it is actually precisely the opposite. The Catholic church as an organisation is not aligning with them - even here in Germany they are now loosing thousands members every year because of their reactionary mindset. People are fed up with this organisation, and rightly so. I never liked all this woke bullshit, but sensitive abortion laws, acceptance of homosexual pairs and lifestyle and a clear separation from religious and state affairs are now part of educated societies. The Catholic church as an organisation is still so backward, time for them to wake up in today's world. If they don't, there is a good chance that they will diminish. Thanks god!@@alihenderson5910

Are you saying it was worse in Spain because it wasn’t.

This is a German production, translated in to English. Why else are there German professors talking about Franco?

Hemingway, Orwell, Sarte, Kahlo, Picasso and all the great intellectuals sided with the Republic

@@helpingus7135 and they still lost with all that celebrity magic?....i'm shocked

@@JukeBoxDestroyer They were intellectuals NOT evil monsters

@@helpingus7135 Orwell regretted and repudiated his support for the communists.

​@@helpingus7135​ LOL, "great intellectuals"? Hemingway's whole schtick was that he _wasn't_ an intellectual. Sartre was the ultimate trustafarian, a Marxist who was independently wealthy, a cultural vandal. Kahlo is famous because she was married to Diego Rivera and Salma Hayek made a movie about her. Picasso was a great artist, I'll admit, but he was crazy. Orwell was the only one in this group who I'd describe as a great intellectual.

Yes,Felipe's father is an example to us all.Particularly if you are keen on corruption

An interesting point, but attempting to cover a very big topic & only so much you can get in, I think.

Watch part 1.

It was essentially gone by 1900.

Tudorica, to be truthfull, you can not talk about a communist revolution as the republic was in power and it was there not by revolution but legally elected.

Excellent take! One of the best takes Ive read so far, a very educated one as compared to the many idiots here

Are you sure the Republic was communist.

Military dictatorships are usually fascistoid. The have many things in common with the Italian fascist dictatorship. Franco's fascism was different by the incorporation of the Catholic element, but all fascisms have their own particularisms, derived from their national characteristics.

@@herrero4270 Go to sleep kid u are way over ur head

Yes they were naive and had horrible objectives, but have to admire their effectiveness on what there against

What about Morrocos treatment of Western-Sahara?

A lot of Moroccans love Spain

My family suffered too, they left Spain due to persecution and came to the UK. Malaga was bombed to the ground. The older generations of my family do not like to talk about it. Franco's regime was evil.

Spain did well under Franco, they immediately got worse following his death.

Typical mad socialists, what did u expect?

he was a tradisonalist Militaristic Nationalistic and Coperatistic dictator, souds very similar to fascism

@@SwedishDrunkard5963; He was traditionalist Catholic, first, second, and third.

@@Johnnycdrums who just happend to be best friends with the nazis & Italian Fascists and have a very similar economy and belifes

@@SwedishDrunkard5963; He wasn't friends with any of these people.

Could you elaborate?

@@becut95 The record of communism speaks for itself. As for capitalism and "democracy", what they've given us is perpetual war and rule by unaccountable oligarchs. The leaders of Europe and Anglophone countries couldn't care less about the welfare and opinions of their constituents. This, it seems to me, is self-evident.

Lutheranism and Calvinism have nothing to do with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And so, they remained backwards, rancid and reactionary.

Jews fled also to spain to escaped the Nazis and with spanisch Passports the Nazis couldnt Touch them

It's said that some were barren, with low productivity. That's not an impediment to exist. There were not communists in the time of those colonies.

@@herrero4270 This mocumentary claimed that the settlers in those colonies were cheated by giving them barren land. Interestingly they did not leave that land but seems to enjoy the "cheat". The only one talking about communists _in the time_ are you. I and the mocumentary is talking about when the name was changed, pretty recently. (Btw, what do you mean by "time of those collonies? They are running these days too.)

@@horeageorgian7766 Everybody enjoy they poor possessions. At least they give them the ilusion of beign landowners, despite the fact that a disposessed wage worker in the city has a higher income. I see you didn't understood my statemente. This days there're are not communists trying to change the name of those colonies. But wai!!! I forgot...to the fascists, eliminatig the names of their glorified butchers from fascist extraction, is equivalent to "communism".

Is there any politician who is not an opportunist?

@@danrooc Franco was worse

@@dennis771 Worse than whom? At the time there were fine people and plain monsters, in both sides.

A lot of things are punishable by death in the bible

The Spain show us, that reality is different, . . . Not every diktatorship is the worst option.

Rome had many and people loved them and if you think about it kings and queen are dictatorships

They can be, as long as they are not leftist, and there are many of them: Franco, Pinochet, Lee Kuan Yu, and Gen. Park Chung Hee, to name a few. They all built their countries and saved their nations from evils of communism.

Lee kuan yew - Singapore

So staying neutral equals enemy ?

Not if some of the contributions on here are to be believed. Wearing the evil man's T-shirt, no doubt

Oooooh scary communists. You sound pathetic

Everyone was happy?? What about the 1000’s of mothers who had their babies snatched from them; or the political prisoners who suffered for speaking out for democracy; or the thousands of starving families in the 1950s, thanks to epic corruption & misrule by Franco; or how about every single Spanish citizen who wanted a democracy with elected representation and freedom to speak out against Franco’s corruption and inept rule. Are those people happy ?!

Franco stayed out of WWII because he had nothing to offer the axis, his people were starving and he had no Navy or Air Force.

I had only attended middling colleges in America and can assure you there were no Marxist or communist professors

So you're saying, "I had a good time, who cares about all those people who were tortured and executed"?

He banned it in 1945.

@@kiwitrainguy can't think why?

since he had "war wounds" in his "lower abdomen" so was likely made a Eunuch

Of course...it didn´t confirm your predjuices and beliefs

fabulous doc actually!

@@herrero4270 the opinions of Spaniards are the ones that count, I'd think

@@daffyduk77 The opinions of the Spaniards count the same than somebody's else. Even less, when they're biased by their fascist ideology, aking to their beloved dictator.

They say something true and not continue , so half truths

True

What red terror? You think the American bases prevented the soviets from dropping a bomb, lol?

@@BenSussmanpro If ignorance is bliss, you must have achieved nirvana. Just to show you how easy it is to find info, I've dumbed it down for your infantile intellect all the way down to Wikipedia, so even you could have found it if you had cared to look. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain) What's next for Ben? Oh, yeah, "What Holocaust?"

Franco’s legacy: Genocide of opponents who fought for the democratically elected government, the stealing of children from their families, the use of slave labour to built a shrine to himself. Get over yourself with this prevention of communism, plenty of countries avoided a communist dictatorship without installing a fascist one

​@@BenSussmanproCommunism is a mental illness, so I don't blame you for not understanding what "Red Terror" is.

All the existing information prove that poverty was the tonic during the Franco era, except at the end, when the Opus Dei took control of the economy.

I'm 67 too but they taught me some History at school. And politics, even. Your view seems to be , you can't beat a good honest (!) dictatorship to knock the B'jesus out of your opponents and "make the trains run on time" in the expression often associated with Mussolini's regime. I'm sure there are military dictatorships you can relocate to if democracy's not for you in your Autumn years

Great argument...

Actually, Franco might rather make good friends with Trump. As Putin and Kim.

He never had his secret police investigate parents who didn't want their 11 yos subjected to porn in school libraries

He didn't open his borders and unlive 100K Americans a year with border drugs

He didn't send $110B to Ukraine when 650K Americans were homeless

He didn't keep spending insanely when the national debt was $35T

The Spanish Inquisistion was a noble and holy endeavor.

This is correct and does not only apply to Spain. The scandals for the Catholic church as an organisation (not to be confused with people having a Catholic Christian believe or faith - me as an atheist I make a huge difference here) goes as far as Canada, Ireland, Germany, Australia. What makes matters worse and so horribly bad is that the victims are often children and lots of them. As with almost any ideologic organisations (be it fanatic / extreme communist, religious or nationalist) they are suppressing others with all their might once in power. No need to glorify the Catholic church as an organisation - they too failed horribly many times during history. Peace! from Dresden / Germany

@@Johnnycdrums in what way?