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The Spanish civil war;Never forget 西班牙内战;铭记于心 A dark time in history finally comes to light 一段黑暗史总将真相大白 In need of a truth commission 需要真相委員会 The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition andExtermination in Twentieth-Century Spain. By PaulPreston. ; 《西班牙大屠杀》：二十世纪西班牙的审与杀;保罗普雷斯顿著; The Spanish civil war and its repressive aftermath, following the victory of General FranciscoFranco, was a particularly savage conflict. But it is far-fetched to describe it as aholocaust, as Paul Preston does in his latest book. His provocative title raised eyebrowswhen it was published in Spain last year, as the country s horrors still pale in comparisonwith the magnitude of the Nazi Holocaust. Mr Preston, an emeritus professor at the LondonSchool of Economics and leading historian of 20th-century Spain, contends that no other wordaptly conveys the whole of the Spanish tragedy, which included a strain of anti-Semitism.Thankfully he exercises better judgment within the covers of this meticulous and well-argued book. 西班牙内战以及殖民军首领弗朗西斯科?佛朗哥取得胜利后的强力镇压是一次特别野蛮的冲突。但是在保罗普雷斯顿最新著作中将其描述成大屠杀有些过于牵强。这本书去年在西班牙发行的时候颇具煽动性的题目令人惊奇，但是相比于纳粹大屠杀的程度，这个国家的恐怖行动仍显得苍白暗淡。保罗普雷斯顿是伦敦经济学院荣誉退休教授而且还是20世纪中叶西班牙历史的权威学家。他认为找不到一个更恰当的词来表达西班牙的整个悲剧，其中包括反犹太主义。他之前的判断有误，幸好这本书的内容还算合情合理。 | 
