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.
