Julián Zugazagoitia
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Julián Zugazagoitia Mendieta (5 February 1899, Bilbao – 9 November 1940, Madrid) was a Spanish journalist and politician.
A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he was close to Indalecio Prieto and the editor of the El Socialista in mid-1930s.[1][2] In the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War he wrote against the paseos and denounced the anarchist and communist secret prisons (checas).[3] In October 1936 he wrote in El Socialista: "The life of an adversary who surrenders is unassailable; no combatant can dispose of that life. That is not how the rebels behave. It matters not. It is how we should behave.".[4] In May 1937 he was appointed by the prime minister, Juan Negrín, as minister of Interior of the Second Spanish Republic.[5] Because of the abduction and killing of Andreu Nin, he dismissed the Director General of Security, Antonio Ortega and threatened to resign as minister.[6]
In 1938, he supported the dissolution by force of the anarchist controlled, Consejo de Aragon.[7] He was replaced in May 1938,[8] but in April 1938, he was appointed secretary of the ministry of defence.[9] After the war, he fled to France, but in 1940 was arrested by the Gestapo, handed over to Spain and executed.[10] In France he wrote a history about the Spanish Civil War: Historia de la guerra en España, published in 1940.[11]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.208
- ^ Julius Ruiz (2007). "Defending the Republic: The García Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936". Journal of Contemporary History. 42 (1): 100. doi:10.1177/0022009407071625. S2CID 159559553.
- ^ Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.393
- ^ Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. p.232
- ^ Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. p. 651
- ^ Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. p.262
- ^ Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. p. 296
- ^ Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.411
- ^ Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. pp.284-285
- ^ Beevor, Antony. (2006). The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. p.413
- ^ Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.412
Bibliography
[edit]- Beevor, Antony. (2006). The battle for Spain. The Spanish civil war, 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. ISBN 978-0-14-303765-1.
- Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. ISBN 978-0-691-00757-1
- Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. ISBN 978-0-00-723207-9 ISBN 0-00-723207-1
- Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. ISBN 978-0-14-101161-5
- 1899 births
- 1940 deaths
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
- Government ministers during the Second Spanish Republic
- Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction)
- Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in France
- People executed by Francoist Spain
- Executed Spanish people
- Writers from Bilbao
- Politicians from Bilbao
- Interior ministers of Spain
- Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic
- Exiled Spanish politicians
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