What motivated men and women to join the international brigades in the spanish civil war?
Before Franco the jew, did his putsch against the left wing government, which had been democratically elected in a regular government, all was done to prepare the destruction of left democrats in Spain – Hitler and Mussolini actively supported Franco hijo de Bahamontes , the fascist – The international brigades came to Spain in order to reinforce the legal army but the putschist were the stronger, and they won – the repression which followed with the help of the pope was terrible – and many of the republicans (believed that they ) found refuge in France, wher as soon as 1940 they were arrested by french and german police and deported to Mauthausen, Buchenwald & co – many of the refugees, mainly males could join the ranks of french Resistance and could escape deportation – There was no difference between the stalinist repression of the POUM trotzkist elements, and the general repression that they ran everywhere else – Trotzki was eliminated in 1939,in South America – Trotzkists were con