Civil War ended 75 years ago with resounding victory for General Franco and the Second Republic
Thursday, April 3, 2014 @ 1:50 PM
YESTERDAY was the 75th anniversary of the end of Spain's Civil War, a day known as Glory Saturday.
As was the case every night on National Radio in the central-Spanish cathedral city of Burgos, the headquarters of the rebel gang who opposed Spain's Second Republic, a trumpet flare was followed by the daily war announcement by actor-turned-DJ Fernando Fernández de Córdoba – but this time he told listeners that it would be the last one and that the 'victorious flags had returned'.
The famous Conquest of Catalunya, with the entry of the Moroccan Armed Forces to Barcelona at the orders of General Yagüe, spelled the end of the Republic and the overwhelming triumph of General Franco.
Fernández de Córdoba read out a statement corrected by Franco himself which said: “Today, now that the Red Army has been captured and disarmed, national troops have achieved their ultimate military goal. The war is over.”
This was signed by 'Generalísimo' Franco, or 'the Great General Franco', in Burgos and dated April 1, 1939.
Franco was addressed as 'Generalísimo' throughout his reign, and recently, a street in a village in the Greater Madrid region called C/ Generalísimo Franco was renamed as part of the Law of Historic Memory, which seeks to wipe out all traces of the dictator including renaming streets and taking down his statues.
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