Etiqueta: Brigadas Internacionales

  • Ultimo desfile de las Brigadas Internacionales en Barcelona

    Herbert Matthews, sobre la última parada de los hombres demacrados, enfermos y desharrapados de las Brigadas Internacionales en Barcelona el 28 de octubre de 1938:

    They were not clad in spic-and-span uniforms; their garb was nondescript; they had no arms, and they could not seem to keep in step or in line. But every one who saw them–and above all those who fought with them–knew that these were true soldiers.

  • Última parada de las Brigadas Internacionales en Barcelona

    Hoping to stir the League of Nations to order out the German and Italian troops in Franco’s army, Negrín sent home the International Brigades. On November 15, the foreign volunteers who were still alive paraded through Barcelona, while Negrín gave them thanks and La Pasionaria saluted them: «You can go proudly! You are history! You are legend!» Mussolini in response withdrew some Italian soldiers but left the majority in Spain. Hitler heeded Franco’s pleas for more arms on condition that Germany get critical Spanish mining rights.