The views of Franco's regime on the 'children's issue' during the Greek civil war

Author: Hassiotis, Loukianos

Source: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Volume 33, Number 2, September 2009 , pp. 204-218(15)

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Abstract:

The suggestion is made here that, as part of its effort to identify the Spanish civil war with that of Greece, Madrid adopted the view that the two cases were similar in order to identify Franco's regime with the other anti-communist regimes of Western Europe at the beginning of Cold War. During the civil wars in both Spain (1936–9) and Greece (1946–9), the 'children's issue' became an important factor for humanitarian as well as for propaganda reasons. Indeed, the correspondence between the measures taken for the care of children by the two conflicting sides in both countries is impressive, in spite of the structural differences between the two civil conflicts.

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174962509X417672

Affiliations: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Publication date: 2009-09-01

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