The Archaeology of Spanish Fascism
A channel I’m watching more and more of is Al Jazeera. Not so much for news from Iraq, but news elsewhere. When the fires were raging in Greece the UK channels were reporting on the threat to sites. Al Jazeera had a Greek journalist speaking about the danger to people and possible reasons why people would want to start the fires. It’s interesting to see another point of view.
The video above is fascinating. It’s about the recent archaeological work on the victims of the Spanish Civil War. The war was, among other things, training for the German soldiers. Spain was the country the allies didn’t get round to liberating at the end of the war. This has left a long tradition of people collaborating to survive. Unlike Eastern Europe, the return to democracy wasn’t accompanied by openness but an agreement to move on from the past in silence. However some questions will not go away and people are looking to see if they can find what happened to their relatives. Unfortunately the lack of discussion hasn’t healed the wounds and old divisions are reopening. This Al Jazeera documentary puts the work of the archaeologists in context with rumblings from the current generals that the unity of Spain will be defended.
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