:39:18
"The first time I heard about
Mazas and the firing squad,
:39:20
all I knew about him was
that he was a writer who,
:39:25
on his return from Mussolini's Italy,
founded the Spanish Falange,
:39:29
a Fascist party.
:39:31
He helped create
its symbols and became
:39:34
counsellor to the party leader,
José Antonio Primo de Rivera."
:39:40
Spain has lost its status
:39:42
due to the division
caused by local separatism,
:39:47
division between
its political parties,
:39:50
and the division caused by
the class struggle.
:39:53
When Spain finds a common purpose
:39:56
stronger than these differences,
:39:58
it will be great once more.
:40:01
"After the victory
:40:04
of the Left
:40:07
in the elections
:40:09
of 1936,
:40:11
Left and Right became radicalized.
In an atmosphere
:40:15
of street violence, the Falange
:40:17
was banned
and its leaders imprisoned.
:40:22
A military coup
:40:23
was just a question of time."
:40:25
My father was in prison
:40:27
but when
my brother Máximo was born,
:40:31
on 31st March 1936,
:40:34
they let him go
:40:36
to see his son.
So he ran away.
:40:39
But of course
:40:40
he couldn't leave Madrid.
He was forced
:40:43
to hide out in various places.
:40:47
"For the first year of the war,
Sánchez Mazas was in Madrid,
:40:50
a refugee at the Chilean embassy.
:40:53
At the beginning of 1938,
he was arrested in Barcelona."