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| This will be one of
the two core sections of the website, that along with the Soldiers
section, deals with how the Spanish Civil War directly affected the lives
of Europeans. Here we will deal with the experiences of those away from
the battlefield. We will reconstruct the debates in the newspapers and the
arguments of the politicians who both supported and opposed non-intervention in
Spain. We will examine the reaction of the artists: poets, painters and
novelists, who found it essential to politicize their work as a reaction to
Spain. But above all, the focus will be on the grass roots response to
Spain: the meetings, the demonstrations and the support (financial and
otherwise) which the 'simple, faithful folk' from all over Europe
considered duty-bound to give.
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