Verónica Sierra Blas . Palabras huérfanas: Los niños y la Guerra Civil . Madrid : Taurus Historia . 2009 . Pp. 434. €20.00.
Journal: The American Historical Review
Year: 2010

Two weeks after Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union and a week after General Francisco Franco's foreign policy shift from non-belligerency to “moral belligerency” in June 1941, propaganda was emitted from Madrid concerning the Spanish children evacuated to Russia and the Ukraine during the Spanish Civil War. The 1941 reports, put out to persuade public opinion that hostility toward the Soviet Union was a logical continuation of Franco's anticommunist “crusade” of 1936–1939, claimed that there