There’s an excellent article by Alejandro Baer in today’s El País about the contrasting treatment given to the news of Kristallnacht on the Francoist and Republican sides during the Spanish Civil War. Baer, a social anthropologist at Madrid’s Complutense University, sets out in detail the approval and indeed glee with which the news was greeted on the Francoist side and compares this with the condemnations expressed by the media on the Republican side, as well as noting the solidarity expressed with the victims by Spain’s legitimate government and the support offered to them, even as the Republic’s own death agony approached.

His article ends like this,

When we look at the representations of Kristallnacht in the Spanish media of the time we discover that what happened in Germany also involved Spain itself. Spanish republicans and European Jews - especially those who had enlisted in the International Brigades - recognized that their fates were intertwined, while the deeply-rooted antisemitic stereotypes and prejudices promoted in November 1938 by those who would go on to win the Civil War have endured down through the decades.  Their bitter traces  form part of our present reality.