THE commemoration a fortnight ago of the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s demise served as a reminder that the fascist ...

Last week marked 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975. How does a democracy handle the ...

The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In ...

A new history and a memoir by the former King of Spain offer clues as to how a dictator with few qualities was able to remain ...

As is well known, Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz—the legendary “Angel of Budapest”—rescued more than 5,000 Jews; yet what gets deliberately ignored today is that he acted with explicit authorization ...

However, 60% of young citizens claimed to "have no religion" in a new survey published Nov. 26, while church leaders have ...

As Hitler's armies marched into Russia in 1941, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco faced an impossible choice. To appease the ...

In 1941, Francisco Franco made a dangerous political gamble to appease Hitler without entering WWII, leading to the creation ...

In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death on Nov. 20, 2025, the left-leaning Spanish government led a ...

Fifty years after Francisco Franco's death, Spain witnesses a troubling revival of far-right sentiments among young voters, ...

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier honoured Nazi war victims in Guernica on Friday, becoming the first German leader to visit ...

MADRID — Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday became the first German head of state to visit Guernica, the Basque town devastated by a Nazi air raid during Spain's civil war in one of ...