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Jong, Mike de (2020)

Tussen Burgos en Moskou: De Spaanse Burgeroorlog door de ogen van Nederlandse katholieken

Bachelor thesis | Geschiedenis (BA)

As civil war broke out in Spain the entire world watched. The deeply ideological nature of the conflict ensured it spurred public interest worldwide. In the Netherlands too the public took sides, a process regulated by the existing pillarisation. Most Dutch catholics supported Franco, though the pillar also knew some dissidents. This paper looks at the argumentation used by Dutch catholics for their position in the civil war, using newspapers and books as sources. Through this research it tries to add to the existing views on the interwar Netherlands and to the corpus of research on how the civil war was perceived outside of Spain.

Spanish Civil War

Catholicism

Interwar period

Public opinion

Pillarisation

The Netherlands

Author

Jong, Mike de

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Algemene Geschiedenis

Supervisors

Boom, Bart van der

ECTS Credits

15

Language

nl