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Examples of maps published during the Spanish Civil War are shown below. They contain a range of geographical, political, economic and military information, and are all taken from archives held at the Modern Records Centre.
26 kwi 2015 · Historical Map of Europe & the Mediterranean (20 July 1936 - Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War: In Spain, tensions had been rising between the reformist republican government and conservative nationalist elements.
29 lip 2021 · The Nazis saw Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s fascist regime as an ally, but Franco wisely remained neutral during World War II. Initially, the German military mapping of Spain can be seen as part of an effort to bring the Franco dictatorship into the Second World War as a German ally.
A special historic and regional field concerns the German Army Map of Spain 1 : 50 000 - produced between 1940 and 1944 - which must be seen as a part of the German plan to capture Gibraltar and to bring Spain as a German ally into the Second World War. Via intelligence service connections between the German Armed Forces and the respective
Spanish Civil War Maps. The Spanish Civil War Maps collection belonging to UAB Map Library is composed of eighty three sheets, corresponding to nine different cartographic series. Seven of them were edited by the cartographic services of the parts involved in the conflict between 1936 and 1939 (except five sheets edited in the 20’s).
4. Oliver Law 45. Private collection, courtesy of the late Harry Fisher. 5. Shop window iconography 50. Kati Horna collection, Ministry of Culture, Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Española, Spain. 6. Republican youth mobilization 54. Private collection, courtesy of Antonina Rodrigo.
The Spanish Civil War Maps Collection compiles a series of sheets published between 1936 and 1939 by the two sides in the war. The collection was included in the general series of the Map Library until it was decided to make an exhaustive collection of its own.
