Spanish Maquis
The Spanish Maquis were Spanish guerrillas exiled in France after the Spanish Civil War who continued to fight against the Franco regime until the early 1960s, carrying out sabotage, robberies (to help fund guerrilla activity), occupations of the Spanish Embassy in France and assassinations of Francoists, as well as contributing to the fight against Nazi Germany and the Vichy regime in France during World War II.
Overview
Referring to the contribution of the Spanish Maquis to the French resistance movement, Martha Gellhorn wrote in The Undefeated (1945):
During the German occupation of France, the Spanish Maquis engineered more than four hundred railway sabotages, destroyed fifty-eight locomotives, dynamited thirty-five railway bridges, cut one hundred and fifty telephone lines, attacked twenty factories, destroying some factories totally, and sabotaged fifteen coal mines. They took several thousand German prisoners and - most miraculous considering their arms - they captured three tanks.
In the south-west part of France where no Allied armies have ever fought, they liberated more than seventeen towns.Podcasts:
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by Holy Mother
Spanish Skies
by: Holy MotherHalf blind, hands tied
Sometimes love divides
Midnight summer
In a spanish sky
Latin rythms in the wind
It's like...home to me
Oh, the island's bleached
From it's own rays
Salted air and my mouth is dry
Said to a woman
Under painted skies...hold me
Oh, the island stirred
From a small parade
The stars at night
Won't cross the rine
Lonely isles, domestic wine
Like candy
Oh, we made love
Under the sun's rays
Half blind, hands tied
Sometimes love divides
Oh, oh, it didn't look that strange
From the island's coast
I'll cast a line to
The clouds tonight
Oh, oh, lovers lost
In the devil's fight
Angels come turn
Wrong to right
I was lying there
Thunder crashed
She lit up the sky
Longer hair and
Superstitious eyes
Spells were cast
And now I'm...
Caught in the middle
Of an endless fight
Good and evil
Meets wrong and right...help me
Oh, the island shakes
From a small parade
Midnight summer
In a spanish sky
Latin rythms in the wind
It's like...home to me
Oh, we made love
Under the sun's rays
Half blind, hands tied
Sometimes love divides
Half blind, hands are tied
Am I hypnotized
I've been hypnotized
But that's alright
Oh, oh, it didn't look that strange
From the island's coast
I'll cast a line
To the clouds tonight
Oh, oh lovers lost
In the devil's fight
Good and evil turns
Wrong to right