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An engravement on a helmet from the Spanish Civil War. Wondering if this a Republican or Francoist symbol, I can't find the exact symbol online and both sides have symbology similar or consisting of elements of this symbol.

Hello everyone, I'm not sure where else to post this or if I'll get any replies at all, however I am rather curious about this.

This is an image that has been passed down generations and recently given to me due to my interest in military history, however shamefully I know almost nothing about the Spanish civil war. (Despite the fact that it heavily affected my maternal side of the family).

My family lived in the region of Galicia for generations until my mother and her parents mother to Canada. My mother's side of the family have always had far right beliefs, and my mother even told me how her grandfather fought for Franco.

However, she has informed that she knows close to none about what exactly he did. And I was curious if this image would be able to provide any information. Are any of you able to identify his branch? More insight on his uniform? The medals on his left breast?

If not, that is completely understandable. Perhaps I'll just set him down on a shelf somewhere and leave him be as a mystery.

Hello! I’m a newbie writer and i have an idea for a picture that takes place during the Spanish civil war that I want to follow through with. Though the war itself is more so the backdrop to the heart of the story, its very important to me that it remains accurate to the history and handles it tastefully without making it seem like one side is innately wrong and the other is right. Right now I’m just in a research stage just trying to applicably piece it together as mentioned, as accurately as possible, and I’m hoping some knowledgable folks here can help answer some questions that are just a little too specific to find answers for online lol. Not sure how active this thread is so not really expecting much traction but please let me know, or if maybe there’s any other threads that could better answer my questions, thanks!

Sorry if this is the wrong place to look, my Grandmother is looking for the grave of one of our relatives who died during the spanish civil war. Does anyone know of a database where we could find such information?

I was reading No Pasaran: Writings from the Civil War recently, and I came across this passage which I found fascinating, albeit vague:

"...the landowners, under Franco, forced the rural workers to re-enact every year the violent murder of a landowner in 1936, a ritual of submission designed to keep them in their place.”

Does anyone know any more about this? There was no other contextual information in the passage, just that this happened in a small town in the years after the war.

Hello comrades I am visiting Granada for a week with my partner and would love to see some historic sites or buildings from the civil war. We are both politically active at home and would like to pay our respects to those who fought fascism, as well as see first hand the places where the battles took place - I’m really interested in seeing particular buildings or streets where specific fighting took place rather than just museums or monuments (although these are welcome too) and would love to hear any specialist or interesting details people have about Granada and the war Many thanks No Pasaran!

I am looking for Spanish military surplus from the Spanish Civil War or from Francos Regime does anyone know of some websites where I can find some any help is gladly appreciated My family fought for the nationalists and i would like to collect some items from that time peroid.

I’m looking for recommendations of audiobooks about the Spanish Civil War. They can be history, (auto)biography/memoir or fiction. I’ve just read i.e. listened to , Homage to Catalonia and I’ve previously read For Whom The Bell Tolls so not those, and I’m particularly interested in a good overview of the conflict. Thanks in advance.

I just picked up a Mauser made in 1923 was wondering if this was used during the war?

All though there is records of 75 White Russian veterans serving under Franco during Spanish Civil War, was there ever a record for a White Russian Regiment or Company during Spanish Civil War?

Hello everyone!

I have recently developed a website that helps navigate the multiple archives that contain information about people that participated or suffered the consequences of the Spanish Civil War. You can access it here: https://buscar.combatientes.es

So far, there are over 4.5 million entries in the database, which reference over 2.3 million "unique" names (many people will have several entries). While many of these entries just points you in the direction of the physical archive where you will be able to access them, many others can be consulted online!

There are a couple of features that I believe can be of great help (both for researchers and family members that want to find out more about their relatives) in trying to locate new information:

1. Multiple archives contain information about this period, but there is no central place to run our searches. Usually, these archives have their own website, or even pdf-lists, so looking for different people can be very time consuming and requires being an expert to know all the different sources and how to search them. This website aggregates all of their databases into a central one, providing links to the source of the material.
2. Given the nature of how many of these records were produced, it is very common to find misspellings of names and surnames, or simple typos, that could make it very difficult, if not impossible, to find. The way I built the website, you can see all the records available while keeping 2 of the 3 "variables" (name, surname1 and surname2) constant, and changing one at a time. This is accessible from the right column (and a further filter can be found of "suspects" of being a misspelling on the left column).
3. As part of this project, I am coordinating a volunteer-group that is indexing many sources available online (but that come from documents that are not "searchable"). So far, we have added over 43,000 names to the database this way, coming from different Spanish online archives and the Russian Archives of the International Brigades.

For now, the website is only in Spanish, but it should be fairly simple to navigate. Also, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about its functioning! I hope this can be helpful to many of you!

As an example, these are the results for Kenneth Graeber, the father of the late writer and anthropologist David Graeber (author of Debt: The first 5,000 years, and Bullshit Jobs, among others).

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I began writing an essay on the CNT and also general anarchist presence during the war out of boredom but couldn't actually find the information I needed. I have trouble understanding anything relating to history on the internet because everything seems out of order. Is there a specific site or book anyone could recommend?