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Spanish Vote Threatens Efforts to Recover Franco's Victims

Spain’s left-wing government has tried to accelerate exhumations of mass graves left from the dictatorship. If it wins Sunday’s election, the right may end that. ....

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My Father Fled Fascism in Spain—and Taught Me How Lies Can Destroy a Democracy

My Father Fled Fascism in Spain and Taught Me How Lies Can Destroy a Democracy
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A demonstration against Francisco Franco outside the headquarters of the United States delegation to the United Nations in the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, Jan. 2, 1946.
The truth can’t destroy a democracy but lies can. At age thirteen my father was awoken by machine gun fire in the streets of Madrid. It was 1936, and a coalition of progressive groups had just swept the national elections, infuriating the Spanish right-wing. Soldiers in the Montana barracks, under Colonel Francisco Serra, begun trading fire with pro-government civilians that had massed in the surrounding streets. Holed up with the insurrectionists were civilian fascists called Falangists as well as a general who falsely claimed the national election had been stolen. (“The rebellion? We planned it the day we lost th ....

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Hubert Faure, French commando who landed in Normandy, dies at 106

By PHIL DAVISON | Special To The Washington Post | Published: April 20, 2021
Hubert Faure, who died April 17 at 106, was one of the last two survivors of a 177-man French commando unit that landed alongside British forces under withering German machine-gun, mortar and shellfire on Sword Beach, Normandy, on June 6, 1944.
With the rank of chief warrant officer, Faure was part of the 1st Battalion Marine Commando Fusiliers known as Kieffer commandos after its leader, Lt. Philippe Kieffer. It was the only French unit to take part in the D-Day landings, although the domestic French resistance had been harassing the Germans with guerrilla tactics throughout the war. ....

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Hubert Faure, French commando who landed on beaches of Normandy, dies at 106

Hubert Faure, French commando who landed on beaches of Normandy, dies at 106
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Hubert Faure, French commando who landed on Normandy, dies at 106

Hubert Faure, French commando who landed on beaches of Normandy, dies at 106
Phil Davison
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Hubert Faure, a former member of the “Kieffer commandos,” in 2014.
Hubert Faure, who died April 17 at 106, was one of the last two survivors of a 177-man French commando unit that landed alongside British forces under withering German machine-gun, mortar and shellfire on Sword Beach, Normandy, on June 6, 1944.
With the rank of chief warrant officer, Mr. Faure was part of the 1st Battalion Marine Commando Fusiliers known as “Kieffer commandos” after its leader, Lt. Philippe Kieffer. It was the only French unit to take part in the D-Day landings, although the domestic French resistance had been harassing the Germans with guerrilla tactics throughout the war. ....

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