The Spanish Civil War using Google Earth 

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So you’re telling me the country didn’t just one day perfectly split in half like in hoi4??? 🤯🤯🤯

Always remember that every number was a life, someone loved that person.

Two of my great-grandfathers fought in this war. One in each side. Many common soldiers didn't fight in the side they wanted (they didn't even want to fight), but they fought in the side that came first to their village and recruited them; they had no other choice, or they would have been shot right there. One of my great-grandfathers died in a battle in Galicia, he was one of those numbers that rise so fast in the first years of the war. The other had better luck, after serving long time in such a horror, he could desert during the battle of Ebro, crossing the river swimming and escaping to France. He was "enslaved" by the French, forced to work in the mines, until he could come back home after the war. In his absence, my great-grandmother, with her mother and sisters, survived by smuggling of goods hidden in fake-bellies (they pretended to be pregnant). Those were hard times for all Spanish society. Not to mention all the crimes and mass murders of civilians commited by both sides. It was not a war of good vs. bad, or right vs. wrong. It was a bloody disaster for our society, that all people had to suffer, all families were touched by it, and we are still bleeding from it, since many people even in Spain only focus on the crimes of "the other side", instead of acknowledging the history as shameful as it was in its full.

It looks very very strange that you used blue for the republicans and red for the nationals, as both sides identified themselves and the others with the exact opposite (red=republican and blue=national)

My portuguese great grandfather worked in france as a mechanic at that time was caught in middle of the conflict as he was passing spain and got arrested by the spanish military , good thing is that it was close to Portugal and after some days in military custody some spanish guards let him go ,"vaya portugues , rapido rapido " and he manage to cross the border back to Portugal 😂

Always interesting to consider the high amount of foreign volunteers and foreign legions sent there by states (including the USSR Italy and Germany) that all participated in the civil war. Kind of gives you a feeling that this was a 20th century European proxy war.

My great grandfather avoided this war when he permanently moved to El Salvador in the 1890's. What a smart move. My mother moved to USA in 1974 and avoided the salvadorean civil war (1979-1982) another smart move.

Canción popular española sobre la guerra civil, basada en una historia real: Caminando por el bosque En el suelo vi que había Una carta ensangrentada De cuarenta años hacia Era de un paracaidista De la octava compañía Que a su madre le escribía Y la carta así decía Madre anoche en las trincheras Entre el fuego y la metralla Vía al enemigo correr La noche estaba cerrada Apunte con mi fusil Al tiempo que disparaba Y una luz que iluminó El rostro que yo mataba Era mi amigo José Compañero de la escuela Con quien tanto yo jugué A soldados y a trincheras Ahora el juego era verdad Y a mi amigo ya lo entierran Madre yo quiero morir Ya estoy harto de esta guerra Madre si vuelvo a escribir Tal vez sea desde el cielo Donde encontrare a José Y jugaremos de nuevo Si mi sangre fuera tinta Y mi corazón tintero Con las sangre de mis venas Te escribiría: Te quiero Carta original: Querida madre, no sé como empezar esta carta pero te escribo con mi rostro bañado en lagrimas, caen por la soledad, tristeza, dolor y sufrimiento que vivo día tras día aquí. Lo primero que tengo que decirte es Te Quiero y aunque no lo demuestre con frecuencia, Te quiero con locura, para mi eres la persona más importante, siempre has estado ahí apoyándome y protegiéndome, haces que las cosas malas parezcan buenas, tus consejos están llenos de sabiduría y siempre me has llevado por el buen camino. Ahora ya soy mayor de edad, tengo dieciocho años, puedo afrontar yo solo las cosas... pero la verdad es que no puedo madre... Perdóname, os hecho mucho de menos, ¡no quiero estar aquí! Se que desde casa junto a padre y mis hermanos os sentís orgullos de mi, podéis presumir de tener un hijo en el frente. Lo siento por ser un cobarde madre pero tengo miedo, más del que puedo aguantar. No entiendo esta guerra, no se cual es el bando bueno, no sé por qué lucho, no entiendo nada de lo que pasa, solo acato ordenes. El incesante sonido de los fusiles se mezclan con los gritos y llantos de la gente torturando mis oídos día y noche, vivo con una melodía continua de ametralladoras y lluvias constantes de bombarderos. Ya no hablo ni pienso, porque otros lo hacen por mi, solo me hace falta una frase para salir del paso aquí, “a la orden”. Dicen que el amor es suficiente para seguir adelante, que hay que luchar por nuestras familias, demostrar lo que valemos, pero ya no tengo el valor para estar en la batalla, las piernas me tiemblan sin parar, no duermo, me cuesta respirar, lloro a escondidas porque no puedo demostrar lo que siento delante de mis compañeros, se fuerte y lucha me repito constantemente, pero las palabras se pierden en mi mente como las vidas de la gente que esta a mi alrededor, soy la marioneta de un tirano titiritero. A noche nos lanzaron en paracaídas a una zona nueva de batalla, dicen que somos la mejor compañía jamás vista, la fuerza de los ochos nos llaman. La octava compañía paracaidista, siempre al frente luchando por su patria, por los ideales de un estado, viviendo el conflicto con lealtad y valor. Somos soldados valerosos, abrimos brechas en las filas enemigas, causamos bajas en ellos como si fueran animales y no tenemos remordimientos, pero todo es mentira pura mentira, solo fachada, una apariencia; los rostros de la gente demuestran lo contrario, sus caras se han tronado sombrías y pálidas, muestran el temor, horror y desamparo que se vive aquí, pero como nos repiten una y otra vez, “¡soldados o ellos o ustedes!” Madre para lo que realmente te escribo es para contarte lo que me ocurrió anoche. Me encontraba en el campo de batalla resguardándome del fuego cruzado y la metralla. Como siempre acataba ordenes, teníamos que superar una cota para llegar hasta un punto estratégico que nos serviría de base, para ello era necesario abatir al contrario con toda nuestra fuerza, no escatimamos en munición, ni violencia... Madre anoche en las trincheras vía al enemigo correr hacia mi, le apunte con mi fusil y sin darle tiempo a reaccionar le dispare; algo raro paso en ese momento, ya había matado a más gente antes pero en aquel chicho había algo distinto, una luz ilumino su rostro, la cara del enemigo al que asesinaba… madre era mi amigo José, mi compañero de la escuela, nuestro vecino, el hijo de Francisca, mi mejor amigo, con quien tanto yo jugué a soldados y a trincheras. Madre ahora el juego es verdad, no hay risas, solo oscuridad y llantos, no volveremos a jugar jamás, ¡lo están enterrando! Lo siento muchísimo, te pido perdón madre pero ya no aguanto mas aquí, me quiero morir, estoy harto de esta guerra, ¡no se dan cuenta que no va a ganar nadie joder! Tal vez te vuelva a escribir, pero la próxima que lo haga será desde el cielo, donde encontrare a José y jugaremos de nuevo. Madre ten por seguro que si mi sangre fuera tinta y mi corazón tintero, con la sangre de mi venas, te escribiría un “TE QUIERO”. Hasta siempre.

There are a few minor incorrections, but generally a good work. Incorrections include: - Not placing the italians at the helm of the Malaga Ofensive in early 1937, neither at the fall of Bilbao in mid'37. - Not representing the Republican offensive at Teruel in late 1937 (which actually managed to seize the city, albeit shortly) - Not representing the Nationalist advance towards Valencia in the spring of 1938, which was stopped around Segorbe in what became the last republican victory of the war - Leaving the Germans idle around Seville, when the Legion Condor was in fact moving around constantly in support of the Nationalists in most of the relevant battles of the war. But good work anyway. Your video is well worth watching.

Mussolini giving a speech in German language is pure comedy

My grandparents were born in 1933 and 1936 in Murcia. Their lives where marked by this event, there was a lot of hunger everywhere and had to do anything to survive. I'm lucky to still have them and be able to ask them about stories and the way of living at that time, its gives me much perspective into todays life, and how people have became increasingly weaker

Spaniard here. My grandma once told me that her mother had two sons that fought in the Republican army, both died, and she said she would wear black for the rest of her life if any of them, or both, died. True story that really shows what every Spaniard had to live through at the time to fight for their family and friends, or even for ideology's sake, no matter if they were Nationalist or Republican.

I didn't know this war was so gruesome. Seems like it was a notable precursor to the second world war as well.

This war was bloodier than i expected

The allies and russians threw the game by forgetting to send volunteers.

I'm Spanish and I think it's a great job. I think many of my fellow citizens, especially the younger ones, should watch this video. There is a lot of ignorance and double standards when it comes to telling this horrible civil war.

As an spanish citizen im astonished of how epic and accurate is this video. Well done.

7:46 Mr. Stalin, I don’t feel so good

War sucks, but this channel is fucking awesome.

My two grandparents fought in the Spanish Civil War, despite living on each other a few kilometers, one lived in the national zone and the other in the Republican, as the vast majority, they were forcibly recruited and fought on sides in sides opposites.

1.2 Million Casualties (includes wounded people), I didnt know this war was so Bloody

This civil war marked all of Europe

while the whole world was fighting, Spain was just on a side quest.

Amazing video, so well put together, thank you!

I think that the interpretation on this video is very good, specifically considering the units shown with flags, I thought it was pretty cool seeing the Italian troops pouring in. Thank you for the wonderful productions. Edit: This is my first RU-vid Post with over 100 likes so thank you all!

Es curioso que al bando republicano lo pinten de azul, y al bando nacional de rojo ... se nota que no lo ha hecho un español ...

Really puts it into perspective it was a war of attrition.

Spain will never die!1!1!1

JRR Tolkien supported the Nationalists in this war, interestingly enough. He was an admirer of Roy Campbell, who he compared to Aragorn (then named Trotter) in a letter. Campbell was a British fascist who fought in Malaga against the Republican General Villalba. According to Tolkien he recovered a religious artifact that the general had looted.

It's so sad that, counterintuitively, Franco's ruthlessness is what extended the war for so long. Madrid was at his hand relatively early in the war, yet he chose, and stuck with "Victory without conditions" and, almost literally, bled the republican band to death, instead of granting them a dignified coup de grace early on. He knew full well what he was doing, and that, in order to save "his half" of the country, he would have to genuinely sacrifice almost the entirety of the "other half".

Great video, thanks!

Hi there! Great work video! My great grandfather, one of them, was on republic side as volunteer after a luftwaffe warplane almost kill him on the mountais. His horse didn't had so luck an die. He told me terrible stories about, brothers fighting each other, it was very sad. After the end of the war, he was continuing fighting in the mountains with other rebels. But unfortunately, the allies(EEUU, UK, ...) Didn't help republic side and my grear grandfather lost all hopes. He had to surrender, he almost die. I never forget one thing he said to me about war: "las guerras son muy malas, pero las guerras civiles son lo peor." Honor to Valeriano García, my great grandfather, RIP.

My Hoi4 knowledge is helping me understand.

The reason the war started, is because one side wanted less yellow in their flag.

Congratulations for your map.

Franco achieved the rank of General at 25 one of the youngest generals in history like Napoleon.

Wow, it started and also resolved so fast, but the front line remains unchanged for the majority of the wartime.

It is also interesting to see the actions of the central banks in financing the war, which were very clever plays.

que locura verlo así. Si me hubiesen puesto este video antes de explicarme la guerra civil, la hubiese estudiado más motivado por aprender sobre ella

Thanks for doing my country!

Didn't know Mussolini could speak German. Strong accent but understandable

I don't know how they were informed to make this video, but I am Spanish and I can assure you that the total casualties were 500,000 to 600,000.

I'm spanish and watching this hurted so much. So many dead people. So many kids forced to fight. It's absurd. The worst thing, we learnt NOTHING from all those dead. We are still divided like we were in the past. No politician has come to unite Spain, they always want us divided to create hate and gain more votes. Fuck all of them, Spain doesn't deserve this. I just dream for a better tomorrow on my country, because I love it so much, yet it's so hard to not leave the country for a better place in Europe.

I am from spain and my grandmother was a kid at the start of the war. She told me how the republicans send arround 20 men to asegurate the town and try burned the churc. From a bigger town near mine (arevalo) the guardia civil (like military police) came to the town and captured it for the nacionales. No more figthing happen and it stayed in nacional hand troufth all of the war. His father and 2 uncles when to war. All survive, and one was in a republican concentration camp

Una de las historias más tristes de este país. A día de hoy, aún tenemos heridas y nos cuesta remontar aquel momento.

I'm glad Franco won but I'm glad Orwell didn't die also.

I have huge respect and love for Spain.

The spanisch civil war is a canon event

No soy de españa pero tiene bastante potencial e historia increible y no se tiene que derrumbar nunca, VIVA ESPAÑA

Since the Spanish-American War, when Spain lost many overseas colonies, Spain was an internal disaster. In the early 20th century, poverty and inequality were extremely widespread, thanks to an ineffective monarchy. As is normal with these kinds of conditions, the people found solidarity in political parties and organizations. On one side, we have the Nationalists. Landowners, devout Roman Catholics, aristocrats, military generals, and businessmen. On the other side, we have the Republicans. Middle class people, agricultural workers, and the lower class. It’s important to note and be aware of what the Spanish Civil War was NOT. It was not necessarily fascists against communists. There were moderates and extremists on both sides. Many moderate conservatives identified with the nationalists, and many moderate Republicans were, well, Republicans. However, they both had their extremes. The nationalists had many fascists, and the Republicans had many members who were anarchists. In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic was founded. A fairly moderate, average democracy, it promised things like human and workers’ rights. However, these were the Republic’s fatal flaws. See, in the years prior, politics grew increasingly polarized, and once the Republic came around and attempted to compromise with both sides, neither side was particularly happy. Now to the outbreak of the war itself. On February 16, 1936, the election was won by the Spanish Popular Front, which was a coalition of the leftist and anti-fascist elements of Spain. The nationalists were not happy, and on July 17th, the nationalists, led by Francisco Franco, attempted a coup to overthrow the ruling party and install a fascist regime. The Popular Front was not willing to step down, so they took up arms. Thus began the Spanish civil war

Awesome, Thank You! Please do one about War of Paraguay: 1864 - 1870

War is the worst aspect of human nature, but even more so are civil wars that destroy coexistence and leave an incurable social fracture for a long time.

My great grandfather deserted from Madrid and got exiled in southern Brazil. He served in the Brigada Mixta, but when their numbers were dwindling and they were about to form the 11th división, he somehow escaped under enemy lines to Galicia and took a boat to South America. His original plan was to reach Argentina, but he got stuck here lol. José Maria González.

Wow thanks for doing my idea

Cool video! As I’m Spanish I need to express how funny/unfortunate the choice of colours is from my perspective. To represent the side of Nationals you could find better than red. 😅

Great video. Keep going. Viva la Spania.

I wonder why this even was a thing

My great-grandfather had to fight with the Republicans because depending on who got first to the place where you lived, they recruited you and you had no other option. But then he managed to switch to the other side, that of the “rebels” or “sublevados”. Republicans almost killed him for deserting and rebels for thinking that he was from the other side. So he told what they did because he had been on both sides and he said that one of the reasons why the Republicans lost the war was that they destroyed and burned everything in their path so when they had to retreat they had no supplies and they also began to have disagreements and kill each other.

Request: Lebanese Civil War 🇱🇧 (1975-1990) + nice video btw

Destacar que el golpe de Estado de julio de 1936 contra la Segunda República española comenzó en Melilla el 17 de julio de 1936 y de allí se extendió al Protectorado español de Marruecos y a las Islas Canarias, quedando también ambos territorios en zona franquista. Fue clave el puente aéreo entre el Protectorado y las provincias de Cádiz y Sevilla para trasladar las tropas coloniales de Marruecos a la Península para marchar hasta Madrid.

From a global empire to a fractured peninsula

Viva España!!

Thank you so much!

Truly bloody war. Happy Spain is having some better times now.

HAY QUE RESISTIR 🥶🥶🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

The Italians really helped out Franco's Forces. The were at the Assault Forefront when big maneuvers happened, and one of the many reasons Italy performed less in WW2 was because italy was bankrupt from supporting and supplying Nationalist Spain, and needed a lot more time to refurbish the Nation's Economy and Army.

Imagine being the Portugese during this war. A bloody Civil War is happening literally just next door and there's nothing you can do but just wait it out and hope it doesn't spill over to Portugese land on accident (misfired rocket for example).

Como buen español, me emociono al ver este video. nuestros políticos y potencias extranjeras están intentando destruir España. Pero volveremos a vencer una vez más

how did you make this? editing or using some app or website?

Portugal : *Aight imma chill

If the Republic won the war. I couldn't imagined how communist Spain will interact with USSR in the cold war after WW2 ended

Crazy how at the end of the war is when is the bloodiest for the losing part

Mis abuelos tuvieron que emigrar a Venezuela durante la guerra y no pudieron volver hasta que murió Franco y aun después, vivieron con miedo el resto de sus vidas por temor a que les vinieran a buscar a sus casas cualquier noche mientras dormían para asesinarlos. Es por eso que odio tanto a los políticos que tenemos ahora que solo piensan en dividir a la población. Esa guerra no la ganó nadie y parece que algunos todavía no se han dado cuenta. España es un país muy bonito pero su gente es tóxica.

A dark page in the history of mankind

Mapping gets better everyday

😓😭😭We are repeating history. my grandparents died in this war

Great job

Cartagena was the last city conquered during the Civil War, but the map wrongfully reflects its conquest 2 days before when it actually did.

sublime. excelente. gracias!

But I thought the 50/50 split in land control happens on day 1 of the Spanish Civil War. It says so in hoi4!

I am from Spain, 100% Valencian. This war was key to the history of Europe, once you see the real context. I do not support the dictatorship, and the last towns to fall like: -Castilla la Mancha: South center of the peninsula, just below Madrid. Its citizens were heavily punished even after the war and today they have the reputation of being pro-dictatorship, when they are very peaceful people, from whom the dictator extracted their industry, imposing laws that today do not allow them to industrialize. Its people were greatly humiliated after the war, and there are small towns and villages that were built around a certain factory that today was extracted to the north. We Valencians had high executions and humiliations, which we continue to suffer to this day. I just want to leave this message because in the last 4 years, history, along with bodybuilding, has become one of my passions and I have had to research hard and travel to be able to see this situation. I include this message because many of my compatriots are unaware of all this.

In truth, the last thing was the taking of the capital, Madrid. Good job, I didn't know it was static for so long.

Love Spain and the Spanish people, just here because I finished reading George Orwell’s ‘Homeage to Catalonia’ which followed his time as a militiaman on the frontline during this period.

Woah!!!

The interesting thing is how a front line can remain stable and then suddenly impode

A very casual war

as a spanish, this is very accurate and low-key mythical with the speeches given during the war. I'm proud of my country's history, as we have a very old and rich one

Well, the advance of the Franco's army was from South to North, Badajoz es the first battle and was attacked by the army from Africa, not as the video, you forgot the battle of Toledo and Guadarrama battle in the south of Madrid also Teruel was a subleved city, was taken by Republic's army and retaken by Franco, in the North also are mistakes and so, well it is difficult

Hi, could you make a tutorial how to make a video like this?

What happened at the final days of the republic. I saw some units retreating and disappeared. Were they destroyed or just routed and surrendered? Or did they go into hiding knowing the war is lost?

After the ww2 the proxy war between ussr and the west moved to Greece as a civil war

If you are German and understand what they say.

A million and more lives lost, even more ruined, a generation lost, a tragedy we should never forget

Bro what are these divisions speed in the south armour + cavalry in the north for the mountains

Have you done a video of Japan invasion of China before and during WW2? If not I would love to see that.

Could you do one about the battle of Malaya and Singapore? The british really took a beating there during WW2.

What do the climbing numbers represent? The ones on the left are casualties as labeled but what are the centre ones?

How many people clicked because the thumbnail/layout made it seem like Francisco Franco was livestreaming the civil war with a facecam

Sometimes you have to give it to the people who want it more. The republican forces just flopped over and took it, despite outnumbering the fascists 3 to 1 and the fact they had all these foreign volunteers and support.