Francisco Franco and the Spanish Holocaust - Sir Paul Preston
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Sir Paul Preston is a School Professor for the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In this episode he discusses his story and his lifelong research into the causes, course and legacy of the Spanish Civil War. He has been instrumental in critically analysing and deconstructing this history, working to expose its atrocities, and has helped to commemorate and compensate some of its victims.
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Thank Goodness for Prestons ability to take a shockingly poor interviewers questions and turn them into an hour of interesting one-sided narrative.
Preston is the go-to authority on Spains civil war and its development in to a Democratic European country on the worlds stage.
Questions such as "What changes have you seen in Spain", (in 60 years of visiting) "which team do you support" and " where can we find details of your books" ...... summed up the gentleman posing the questions...
Well done PP for taking it seriously.
Paul Preston (London School of Economics). Almost all said. I wonder why the leading Hispanists are always British or North American, supported by the mass media. That fixation on narrating our history tainted with the black legend and obscurantism. We know our history better than anyone else, and it has nothing to do with that, nor with what, for example, is told by the El Cano Institute. By the way, what is Charles Powell doing as the director of said Institute? Is there any Spaniard directing any British institute or think tank? The danger is that there are 600 million people who speak Spanish as their mother tongue. MI6 knows this well. But history is changing very fast. The era of giving lessons that no one believes anymore is over.
Interesting interview. I respect PP as an historian but his takes on modern politics are truly bizarre...
What takes are those? I did a quick google but nothing came up.
@@ianjedi1282 - He's and old relic and needs to go away. I've seen his newer interviews, and they are beyond a joke. Him belittling the Holocaust and what happened to the people under Franco just shows what an anti-Semite Preston is. Time for him to go far, far away.
Nothing of what mr preston says agrees with my experience. Gossip
great interview. It extracts from Paul Preston the very essence of his historiography. All his books are a continuing story of Preston fighting the war against his enemies. This is how he sees writing history. And Franco is one of his arch-enemies. Actually, until few years ago I believed he was the enemy number 1. Having read “Last Days of the Spanish Republic” I realized that Casado overtook Franco on the list of Preston’s beloved monsters.
Some 95% of Preston’s writings is recycling what the others have already written. He twists it and bends so that his enemies are condemned to eternal disgrace. The quality of his historiography can best be ascertained when Preston explains why Franco managed to stay almost 40 years in power (start 18:00); “he was just lucky”! For 40 years, year after year, he was just lucky! This is Preston’s understanding of the Franco phenomenon. What a contempt for Spaniards, for Spanish history, for Spanish culture… A big European country, not some tribe in depths of nowhere, remained under Franco just because he was lucky!
Yes, Preston is organically unable to admit that Franco was a fairly skilled politician, that he played his game neatly, that he managed to outsmart almost everyone. He is unable to give Franco the benefit of the doubt. He is unable to write unbiased, non-partisan historiography
Contempt for Spanish culture? Muy al contrario. He quite explicitly rejects any notion that Spain is "backward" or particularly corrupt, but presents a deeper recognition of human corruption in the face of a stubborn refusal to look in the mirror (44:28). Your cherry-picked quote is not his ultimate conclusion at all, but an ironic aside. He has painstakingly documented the pervasive corruption, ruthless brutality and the subsequent impunity of the regime, as well as the corruption that mangles both Europe and the U.S. As he has said of his book *A People Betrayed*, "in a way we are all a people betrayed."
40 years in power ... all for the benefit of the people ... just like Putin?
I agree you can hate Franco but admit he always played his cards right and was considered an ally during the Cold War
A very lucid comment. Franco was also a very canny Galician. They try and get things done with little fuss and with even less talk as possible. A Basque or a Catalan couldn’t have managed what he did, and probably nor could an Andalusian. And a Madrileño would have rubbed everybody up the wrong way. Only the extreme left, like Preston, could find real fault with him. Most people wanted to forget the war, make a living and be optimistic about the future. Politics was the last thing on their minds. Franco and his advisors, most of them hugely talented men, succeeded in doing this. Not even fifty years have passed since he died and Spain is back to it’s old tricks again. Before, they could insult Franco. Now they insult each other.
That would be because such a thing does not exist. One man’s meat….
Interesting interview spoiled by the interviewer constantly saying 'hmm' and 'hmyhymm'.
Marvellous interview Gentlemen, thank you both. Love from a Scot & a Rangers FC fan. Blue is the colour.
Francisco Franco respect. Again is necesary
This is a marvelous interview that fills in much of the background of Europe before the EU which is in itself a remarkably corrupt and failing endeavor. Spain since Napoleon has been a example of failed popular governments to me.
Historiadores ingleses, ocuparos de vuestro país, bastante daño habeis hecho ya a este. Go home!
41:45 Él dice: "Muchos historiadores españoles no escriben historia accesible."
@@rolandscales9380los historiadores españoles no escriben MEMECES como hace P. Preston sobre la Historia de España del Siglo XX.
Franco has been the Saviour of Spain.
Saviour of tens of thousands of jews
@@vascoespañol Well to make the picture clear: in the year 1940 and 1941 he made register of all jews in Spain. Ready to have them deported to Nazi Germany. Then he gave in to pressure and allowed some jews to enter
But he only did it because he saw that the allied were getting stonger. No love for jews what so ever. He was a fanatical anti semite his whole life....
Franco held back the red menace while the rest of Europe was going through proxy wars and civil unrest due to communism Spain remained safe amd sound in the hands of a government that didn’t play games with communists
@@darkcat5649 He was too soft on communism
Paul Preston is very funny.
And a lefty liar and manipulator
@@meilong2338 Shut up you sad troll. Professor Sir Paul Preston is recognised as the world's leading authority on Spanish history from the early 20th century to the present day. Because he's not Spanish, he can take a far more impartial and independent view of Spain and its history. He has won numerous literary prizes for his extensive work - he has both a knighthood and a CBE from Queen Elizabeth II for his work and received the Grand Cross of Isabella The Catholic from King Juan Carlos. In his book 'The Spanish Holocaust' he records and denounces the atrocities committed by both sides in civil war.