The Spanish Holocaust (147 page)

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Authors: Paul Preston

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Unión Militar Española (UME) 26, 28, 37, 51, 63, 92, 111, 115, 180, 368
Unión Militar Republicana Antifascista 127, 268
Unión Patriótica 5, 66
Unión Radio 372, 379
Unión Republicana 155, 201, 213, 256
United Press 336, 441, 463
United Socialist Youth
see
Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas (JSU)
University of Comillas 38
Uribarri Barrutell, Major Manuel 334, 417
Uribe, Vicente 345
Urraca Rendueles, Pedro 492, 493, 497
Urrésola Ochoa, Andrés 362, 363, 410, 415
Urrutia Fernández, General Gustavo 456
Uruguay
(ocean liner) 227
Utrera (Seville) 16

 

Vadillo, Juan 139
Val Bescós, Eduardo 262, 263, 274, 280, 287, 297, 377, 384–5, 386, 387, 390, 500
Val do Xestoso 213
Valdeorras (Ourense) 214
Valdepeñas 27
Valdés Guzmán, Comandante José 173
Valdés Larrañaga, Manuel 367
Valdivia, José 102
Valdivia Garci-Borrón, Captain José 61, 70, 71, 88
Valencia 16, 49, 62, 95, 248, 249, 250, 253, 299, 345, 349, 359, 360, 362, 364, 369, 372, 373, 374, 378, 383, 385, 388, 401, 411, 421, 461–2, 462, 468, 478, 479, 498, 499
València d’Aneu (Lleida) 460
Valencia de las Torres (Badajoz) 328
Valencia del Ventoso (Badajoz) 327
Valencia, Regino 66, 95, 318
Valencina (Sevilla) 147
Valencina del Alcor (Sevilla) 150
Valentí Fernández, Fernando 356, 357, 384, 390, 391, 408, 410, 414, 415
Valera Valverde, Lieutenant Colonel Eduardo 138
Valladolid (capital) 18, 44, 45–6, 63, 64, 91, 103, 106, 188–92, 201, 208, 324, 337, 436, 486, 489
Valladolid (province) 32, 191–2
Valle de los Caídos 235, 451, 509
Valle de los Caídos monastery 323, 517
Valle Inclán, Ramón del 98
Vallejo Nágera, Antonio 514–15
Vallellano, Conde de 127
Vallina, Dr Pedro 29, 32–3, 285
Valls (Tarragona) 234, 465
Valparaíso de Arriba (Cuenca) 49
Valverde de Leganés (Badajoz) 330
Van Paassen, Pierre 223
Vansittart, Sir Robert 369
Varela, José Enrique ‘Don Pepe’ 25, 43, 64, 134, 170, 171, 172, 331, 339
Varela Rendueles, José María 109, 125–6, 140, 144
Vasilevsky, Lev 356
Vaupshasov, Stanislav 419
Vázquez, Juan ‘Tio Juan el de los pollos’ (Uncle John the Chicken Man) 24
Vázquez Baldominos, David 272, 355, 356, 357, 375, 376, 384, 395, 396, 408–9, 410, 411–12, 414, 415, 416
Vázquez de Mella, Juan 43
Vázquez Ocaña, Fernando 286
Vegas Latapie, Eugenio 25, 40, 335–6
Velarde, Alfonso 432
Velayos, Nicasio Velayos 94
Venta de Baúl (Granada) 58
Ventas women’s prison (Madrid) 510–11, 512–13
Veragua, Duque de 262
Verardini Díez de Ferreti, Antonio 390, 391
Vertical Syndicates 498
Viana, Marqués de 286
Vic, Bishop of 236
Vicente, Father 182–3
Vichy regime 489, 491–2, 496–8, 502
‘victory convoy’ 303
Vidal i Barraquer, Cardinal Francesc, Archbishop of Tarragona 38, 236, 237, 496
Vidali, Vittorio ‘Mario’ (‘Carlos Contreras’ pseud) 296, 350, 353, 354, 357
Vidarté, Juan-Simeón 32, 33, 84, 95, 285, 286, 384, 403, 404, 414, 415
Vidiella, Rafael 399
Vigo 209, 215, 299, 324
Vigón, Jorge 25–6
Vila, Enrique 140
Vila Hernández, Salvador 175, 176
Vilaboa (A Coruña) 211
Vilafranca del Penedès (Barcelona) 233
Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) 233, 234
Vilella Baixa (Tarragona) 464
Villa Baena, Emilio 155, 156
Villa Gómez, Pedro 344
Villafranca de los Barros 20, 29, 288, 309
Villalobos, Filiberto 196
Villamanrique (Seville) 147
Villamartín (Cádiz) 137
Villanueva de Alcardete (Toledo) 389
Villanueva de Córdoba 11
Villanueva de Córdoba (Badajoz) 311
Villanueva de San Juan (Seville) 138
Villanueva del Rebollar (Palencia) 59
Villanueva del Rey (Córdoba) 32
Villar Gómez, Bernardo 271
Villar Gómez, Pedro 270, 271
Villar Sanz, Juan, Bishop of Jaca 455
Villarobledo (Albacete) 85
Villarobledo prison 478
Villaviciosa (Asturias) 444
Villoria (Salamanca) 196
Viloria, Segundo 525
Vinaceite (Teruel) 250
Vinalesa (Valencia) 389
Vinarós (Castellón) 461
Virgen del Pilar 19
Vizcarra, Pilar 455
Vizcaya 428, 429, 430, 433, 434, 435, 437
Völkischer Beobachter
466
Volunteer Mounted Police 165

 

Wagner, Richard 494
War Commissariat 342
War Council 346, 367
Whitaker, John T. 312, 322, 331–2, 333–4, 336–7
White Russians 39
Winckelman, George Arvid 376
Winzer, SS Sturmbannführer Paul 490
Wolf, Erwin 418, 420
women prisoners and prisons 83, 133, 159, 184, 192, 204–5, 216, 278, 324, 330, 334–5, 392, 405, 419–20, 455, 478, 480, 484–5, 510–14, 525
Women’s Association for Civic Education 34
Woolsey, Gamel 331
Workers’ Alliance 80, 81
Worsley, T.C. 178

 

Ximénez de Sandoval, Felipe 113, 117

 

Yagüe Blanco, Lieutenant Colonel Juan 83, 84, 90, 91, 94, 118, 131, 132, 132–3, 208–9, 281, 310–11, 313–16, 317, 319, 321, 322, 323, 330, 331, 332, 336, 337
Yagüe Esteverá, Pablo 386, 386–7, 393, 446, 458, 459
Ybarro, Javier Parladé 15
Yecla (Murcia) 98
Yeserías prison (Madrid) 484
Yeste (Albacete) 119, 120
Yeste castle 478
Young Eagles of the FAI
see
Aguiluchos de la FAI, Los
Yuncos (Toledo) 339
yunteros
92–3, 94, 101, 105
Yuste, Jesús 288

 

Zabalza Elorga, Ricardo 60–1, 68, 70, 97, 100, 107, 253, 269, 304, 482, 483
Zafra (Badajoz) 66, 71, 108, 304, 306, 308, 309, 318
Zalamea de la Serena (Badajoz) 22, 33
Zalamea la Real (Huelva) 151
Zamacola, Fernando 139, 525
Zamora 45, 106, 203, 204, 440
Zamora, Bishop of 182
Zamora Medina, Major Sebastían 458
Zamora prison 511
Zapatari prison (San Sebastián) 430–1
Zapico, Mariano 134
Zaragoza (capital) 16, 21, 26, 49, 86, 88, 189, 229, 258, 418, 443, 449, 450, 455, 487
Zaragoza Military Academy 172
Zaragoza (province) 22, 85, 93, 153, 180, 249, 398, 447–8, 453, 454, 504
Zglinitzki, Baroness de (Helen Nicholson) 175, 176
Ziereis, Franz 516
Zubillaga, Luis 343–4, 369, 372
Zugazagoitia Mendíeta, Julián 79, 265–6, 286–7, 291, 296, 297–8, 403, 405, 406, 410, 411, 414, 415, 416, 417, 420, 425, 426, 454, 492, 495, 496

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THE SPANISH HOLOCAUST
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Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Prologue

PART 1: THE ORIGINS OF HATRED AND VIOLENCE

1 Social War Begins, 1931–1933
2 Theorists of Extermination
3 The Right Goes on the Offensive, 1933–1934
4 The Coming of War, 1934–1936

PART 2: INSTITUTIONALIZED VIOLENCE IN THE REBEL ZONE

5 Queipo’s Terror: The Purging of the South
6 Mola’s Terror: The Purging of Navarre, Galicia, Castile and León

PART 3: THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE COUP: SPONTANEOUS VIOLENCE IN THE REPUBLICAN ZONE

7 Far from the Front: Repression behind the Republican Lines
8 Revolutionary Terror in Madrid

PART 4: MADRID BESIEGED: THE THREAT AND THE RESPONSE

9 The Column of Death’s March on Madrid
10 A Terrified City Responds: The Massacres of Paracuellos

PART 5: TWO CONCEPTS OF WAR

11 Defending the Republic from the Enemy Within
12 Franco’s Slow War of Annihilation

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