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 in power so long ...

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 ...

During the second world war, the Abwehr, the German intelligence service, was known for having spies all over the world. When ...

MADRID, June 12 (Reuters) - Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government ...

Former King Juan Carlos’s memoirs went on sale in Spain yesterday, with the publication’s warm words for the late dictator ...

It will probably be at least a hundred years before commentators as a whole will be able to write dispassionately about the man who has dominated the Spanish scene for the past thirty-six years, ...

She was revered as an essential guardian of the country’s memory of war and repression long after the Franco dictatorship. By Adam Nossiter Una nueva ley de amnistía podría ser un remedio para la ...

MADRID, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Spain's leftist ruling coalition on Wednesday launched an assault on long-standing legal barriers to investigating crimes committed during General Francisco Franco's ...

NOW that hostilities are over in Spain, General Francisco Franco's troubles are just beginning. It is easier to run a country in war than in peace. In war everything is subordinated to the single goal ...