Zugazagoitia in 1925

Julián Zugazagoitia Mendieta (5 February 1899, Bilbao – 9 November 1940, Madrid) was a Spanish journalist and politician.

A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he was close to Indalecio Prieto and the editor of the El Socialista in mid-1930s.[1][2] In the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War he wrote against the paseos and denounced the anarchist and communist secret prisons (checas).[3] In October 1936 he wrote in El Socialista: "The life of an adversary who surrenders is unassailable; no combatant can dispose of that life. That is not how the rebels behave. It matters not. It is how we should behave.".[4] In May 1937 he was appointed by the prime minister, Juan Negrín, as minister of Interior of the Second Spanish Republic.[5] Because of the abduction and killing of Andreu Nin, he dismissed the Director General of Security, Antonio Ortega and threatened to resign as minister.[6]

In 1938, he supported the dissolution by force of the anarchist controlled, Consejo de Aragon.[7] He was replaced in May 1938,[8] but in April 1938, he was appointed secretary of the ministry of defence.[9] After the war, he fled to France, but in 1940 was arrested by the Gestapo, handed over to Spain and executed.[10] In France he wrote a history about the Spanish Civil War: Historia de la guerra en España, published in 1940.[11]

Notes

  1. ↑ Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.208
  2. ↑ Julius Ruiz (2007). "Defending the Republic: The García Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936". Journal of Contemporary History. 42 (1): 100. doi:10.1177/0022009407071625. S2CID 159559553.
  3. ↑ Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.393
  4. ↑ Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. p.232
  5. ↑ Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. p. 651
  6. ↑ Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. p.262
  7. ↑ Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. p. 296
  8. ↑ Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.411
  9. ↑ Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. pp.284-285
  10. ↑ Beevor, Antony. (2006). The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. p.413
  11. ↑ Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. p.412

Bibliography

  • Beevor, Antony. (2006). The battle for Spain. The Spanish civil war, 1936-1939. Penguin Books. London. ISBN 978-0-14-303765-1.
  • Jackson, Gabriel. (1967). The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton University Press. Princeton. ISBN 978-0-691-00757-1
  • Preston, Paul. (2006). The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, revolution & revenge. Harper Perennial. London. ISBN 978-0-00-723207-9 ISBN 0-00-723207-1
  • Thomas, Hugh. (2001). The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. ISBN 978-0-14-101161-5


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