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3 unusual facts about José Manuel Castañón


José Manuel Castañón

While in the Blue Division he had kept a diary, which remained inedit for many years.

Although he fought in Francisco Franco’s 1936 military uprising he was very soon disappointed with Franco’s regime and in 1957 left for a 20-year exile in Venezuela.

Unwilling to be part of the Franco’s regime due to the unfair treatment of defeated Republicans and to discriminatory legal procedures, he started expressing his discontent.



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