The battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (100 page)

Euzko Godarostea (Basque army), established tactics

Facerías, Luis

FAI, (Federación Anarquista Ibérica), and ‘events of May’, demonstrate against defeatism,
see also
CNT-FAI

Fal Conde, Manuel

Falange, founded, membership, symbols and insignia, outlawed, assassinations, attacks strikers, role in
coup ďétat
, political killings, nationalist role, leadership, role in civil war, authoritarian values, and Franco’s rise to power, in attack on Madrid, militia, in nationalist power struggle, unit defends Quijorna, under Franco regime, cult of virility and death, (see also FET y de las JONS)

Fanjul Goni, General Joaquín

Farina, Colonel

fascism, international, compared with Falangism, Christianity and, hatred of

Faulkner, William

Faupel, General Wilhelm, (German ambassador)

Fayón

Ferdinand of Aragon, King

Ferdinand VII, King

Fernández, Manuel

Fernández de Villa-Abrille, General José

Fernández Heredia, Enrique

Fernández Luna, Captain Encarnación

Fernández Montesinos, Manuel

Fernsworth, Lawrence

Ferrer, Francisco

Ferrer, Horacio

FET y de las JONS, (Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista)

Figueras

First Republic,
see
Spanish Republic (First Republic)

First World War, Spanish neutrality, equipment, economic boom, military doctrines and practices, veterans impact on art, chaos ensuing

Fischer, Louis

Flix

Flynn, Errol

food supplies and shortages during war

Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur

Ford (motor company)

Ford, Richard

Fourth International

Fox, Ralph

France, investment in Spain, internal politics, involvement in Morocco, political instability, role in Spanish Civil War, frontier, pact with Russia, influence in North Africa, Spanish threat to, Spanish gold reserves shipped to, perceptions of Spanish Civil War, Stalin and, foreign policy, republican officers escape to, arms supplies to republicans and peace negotiations, failure to assist Catalans, suspected designs on Catalonia, supplies bridges, hands over Companys, Spanish refugees in, recognizes Franco regime, ignores republican requests for evacuation, fall and occupation, under Vichy government, liberation

Franco Bahamonde, General Francisco, represses Asturias uprising, commands Military Academy, suppresses October 1934 revolution, chief of general staff, opposition to Popular Front, meets Primo de Rivera, appointed to Canary Islands, role in
coup ďétat
, appearance, character, relations with Church, advance on Madrid, rise to power, his wife, brutality, role in early stages of war, and attack on Madrid, and international involvement in civil war, military strategy, and development of army, and Málaga campaign, angered at symbolic shelling of Madrid, continuing obsession with Madrid, and Jarama and Guadalajara offensives, and Basque campaign, British admiration for, and rivals’ deaths, declares Crusade, writers oppose, seizes power in nationalist struggle, and republican power struggle, and Estremadura offensive, confers with commanders, and Brunete offensive, and Aragón offensive, establishes state ideology, plans further offensive against Madrid, and battle of Teruel, foreign support for, relations with Mussolini, insistence on total victory, constitutes government, centralism, regime recognized, fails to attack Barcelona and orders advance on Valencia, declared captain-general and battle of Ebro and France, declares Spanish neutrality, and battle of Catalonia, publishes law of responsibilities, and surrender negotiations, congratulated by Pope, takes salute at victory parade, bodyguard, regime established, obsession with Freemasonry, Second World War strategy, meets Hitler, ends state of war, agrees on succession, death

Franco Bahamonde, Nicolás

Franco Bahamonde, Ramón

Franco-Salgado, Colonel

Freemasonry

Freemasons, Church’s hostility to, Quiepo de Llano as, shot

French Black Sea Fleet mutiny

French Communist Party

French Foreign Legion

French Resistance

French Revolution

French volunteers

Frente Rojo

Fried, Eugen (‘Clément’)

Friends of Durruti, issue leaflet

Friends of the Soviet Union

Fuenteovejuna

Fuentes de Ebro

Fugger, Major Count

Fusimañ, José

Gaikis, Jacob

Gal, General (Janos Galicz)

Galán, Captain Fermín

Galán, Colonel Francisco

Galán, Major José María

Galarza, General Ángel

Galicia, agriculture, autonomy, guerrilla operations

Galland, Adolf

Gamazo, Countess of

Gambara, General Gastone

Gamelin, General Maurice

Gandesa

Gandía

García Alix, Luis

García Atadell, Agapito, (Communist Youth leader)

García Escámez, Colonel Francisco

García Hernández, Captain Ángel

García Lorca, Federico

García Morato, Captain Joaquín

García Oliver, Juan, organizes militia, minister of justice, military tactics, and ‘events of May’, meeting in Paris

García Valiño, Colonel, and advance on Valencia, and battle of Ebro, and battle of Catalonia, represses anti-fascist rising

Garijo, Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio

Garvin, James, (
Observer
editor)

Gassol, Ventura

Gayman, Vital (‘Vidal’)

General Motors

Geneva

George VI, King

German Communist Party

German navy,
see Admiral Graf Spee
;
Admiral Scheer
;
Deutschland
;
Leipzig

German volunteers

Germany, arms supplies, Nazi Olympics, role in Spanish Civil War, humiliation at Versailles, Stalin and, Spanish debts to, foreign policy, love of total war,
Anschluss
, influence over Italy, trade with Franco regime, concerns over French intentions, pact with Soviet Union, threat to Europe, troops enter Czechoslovakia, role of party in state, invades Poland, invades Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete, invades Soviet Union

Gerö, Erno (‘Pedro’)

Gerona

Gestapo

Getafe

Gibraltar, nationalist sympathies at, refugees in, British defence of, in Second World War

Gide, André

Gijón

Gil Robles, José María

Gillain, Nick

Giménez Arnau, José Antonio

Giral, José, administration, requests assistance from Stalin, government resigns, in Largo Caballero government, and despatch of gold reserves, and republican power struggle, in Negrín government, crosses into France, in exile

Girón, Domingo

Goded, General

Godoy, Manuel de

Goicoechea, Antonio

Goicoechea, Major

gold reserves, under republican control, removed from Spain, in Basque country, under Franco

Goldman, Emma

Gomá, Cardinal Archbishop

Gómez Morato, General

Gómez Recio, Jesús

Gómez, Paulino

Gómez-Jordana, General Francisco

González, Valentín, (see El Campesino)

González Inestal, Miguel

González Pando, Major

González Peñ, Ramón

Gorbea, Mount

Goriev, General Vladimir E. (‘Sancho’)

Göring, Hermann, supplies arms to Spain

Gorky, Maxim

Grafenwöhr training camp

Granada, military rising, political killings, guerrilla operations

Granadella

Grandi, Count Dino

Granollers

Greece

Group of Spanish Guerrillas

GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie)

Gruppe Droehne, see Condor Legion

Guadalajara, province of, battle of, (also known as Battle of Brihuega), further offensive

Guadarrama, River

Guadiana, River

Guernica, bombing of, casualty figures, Basque autonomy declared in

guerrilla warfare, under Franco regime

Guipúzcoa province

Guipuzkoa
(trawler)

Gurney, Jason

Gurs

Haldane, J. B. S.

Halifax, Lord, (later Earl of)

Hamburg

Hart, Basil Liddell

Hedilla, Manuel

Hemingway, Ernest,
For Whom the Bell Tolls
visits Teruel

Hendaye

Heraldo de Aragón

Hernández, Jesús, in Negrín government, attacks Prieto, appointed army commissar, supports Negrín

Hernández, Miguel

Hernández Saravia, Colonel (later General) Juan

Herri Batasuna

Hess, Rudolf

Hidalgo de Cisneros y López de Montenegro, General Ignacio

Hilgarth, Captain Alan, RN

HISMA/ROWAK

Hitler, Adolf

regime, occupation of Rhineland, assistance to nationalists, rearmament, international responses to, bypasses diplomats, compared with Franco, and democracy, seizes power, intentions in Europe, learns of attack on
Deutschland
, effects
Anschluss
, designs on Czechoslovakia, pact with Stalin, and France, invasion of Soviet Union, meeting with Franco, invades Soviet Union

HMS
Blanche

HMS
Brazen

HMS
Devonshire

HMS
Galatea

HMS
Hardy

HMS
Havock

HMS
Hood

HMS
Queen Elizabeth

HMS
Woolwich

Hoare, Sir Samuel, (later Viscount Templewood)

Hodgson, Robert

Hoja Oficial de Barcelona

Horthy, Admiral Miklos

Hospitalet de Llobregat

Huelin, Captain Agustín

Huelva, political killings, captured by nationalists, guerrilla operations

Huesca, offensive

Hull, Cordell

Hungarian volunteers

Huxley, Aldous

Ibáñez, Major Bruno

Ibarra Palace

Ibarrola, Colonel Juan

Ibárruri, Dolores (‘La Pasionaria’),
‘No Pasarán!’
slogan, accused of biting priest, saves victims, leads recruiting campaign, and defence of Madrid, and battle of Guadalajara, double-speak, and republican power struggle, accusations against Ascaso, reputed lover, attacks Prieto, organizes demonstration, farewell speech to International Brigades, and Soviet methods, and continuation of war, leaves Spain

Iberia (airline)

Ibiza

Iglesias, Pablo

Illescas

illiteracy

Iltis
(German torpedo boat)

Ilundaín, Cardinal

industry, Catalan, under Second Republic, wages, in Madrid, Basque, war, under nationalist control, planning, under Franco, in republican zone

Institute of Agrarian Reform