This post continues from False Myth #7

False Myth #8 The 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War of 1936 - 1939 was a fight between Spanish fascism against the Basques

When the war finished, the exiled nationalists declared that the conflict had meant the subdue and outrage of the Basque race (gosh, were they close or not to Hitler?), as if the Civil War had been a massacre of the Spanish against the Basques (making an analogy to the “Carlist” Wars). They also claimed that the Franco victory had as a consequence the occupation of the Basque nation by a foreign power.

This colossal falsification, clearly rooted again in the eternal strategy of appearing as “victims” settled during decades among the nationalists, reaching the category of undeniable truth, and being taught to kids in school.

The horrible Spanish Civil War was a confrontation between half of Spain against the other half for ideological reasons, being the Basques equally divided on both sides. As any Spanish or foreign historian will ratify, there were more Basques fighting for the Franco side than in the Republican one. A great deal of them joined Franco as a natural continuation of their Carlist ideas (refer to my previous posts about this).

And when the war finished, the ministers, ambassadors and senior offices of Basque origin could be counted in dozens in the Spanish Administration.