Onésimo Redondo
Onésimo Redondo | |
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Francoist propaganda | |
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| Spouse | Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller
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Onésimo Redondo Ortega (16 February 1905 – 24 July 1936) was a Spanish
Ramiro Ledesma's Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista and José Antonio Primo de Rivera's Falange Española
.
Together with Ledesma and Primo de Rivera, Redondo was one of the key figures of
Francoist propaganda.[1]
Biography
Redondo was born in
Acción Nacional during his youth. He was greatly influenced by Enrique Herrera Oria, brother of the founder of the Asociación Nacional Católica de Propagandistas and editor of El Debate, Ángel Herrera Oria. Enrique Herrera believed that communism, Freemasonry and Judaism were working to destroy religion and the Fatherland, and encouraged Redondo to read the virulent anti-Jewish tract by Léon de Poncins, Las fuerzas secretas de la Revolucion.[2]
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When the
imperialist and sought the "extermination of the Marxist parties". Redondo and the JHAC sought violent confrontation and recruits armed themselves for street fights with the predominantly Socialist working class of Valladolid, a city previously noted for the tranquility of its labor relations.[2]
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In Redondo's rhetoric,
africanisation' of Spain, Redondo was identifying Spain's archetypal others, the Jew and the Moor with the Right's new enemy: the Left. The war Spain needed to fight was a new 'Reconquista', and ideologues such as Redondo's offered a 'murderous justification of violence against the left.' [2]
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In 1932, he collaborated with the frustrated
war hero
.
Legacy
His widow, Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller, founded Auxilio de Invierno (Winter Aid), after Auxilio Social (Social Aid), which was the welfare agency of Falange, further fully integrated in the Francoist State organization.
The Workers' University of Córdoba was established in 1956 as Universidad Laboral "Onésimo Redondo" de Córdoba.
inaugurated in 1961, and demolished in compliance with the Historical Memory Law
in February 2016.
Writings
- Protocolos de los Sabios de Sión, Valladolid: Libertad, 1932 (translation and commentary).
- Onésimo Redondo, caudillo de Castilla, Valladolid: Libertad, 1937 (newspaper articles and political speeches)
- El Estado Nacional, Valladolid: Libertad, 1938
- Obras Completas: edición cronológica (2 vols.), Madrid: Publicaciones Españolas, 1954-1955
- Textos políticos. Madrid: Doncel, 1975.
Bibliography
- ISBN 0804700583. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- Penella, Manuel A. (2006). La Falange teórica (in Spanish). Barcelona: Planeta. ISBN 8408066781. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ISBN 8420667501.
- Valero, Francisco Morente, ed. (2005). Fascismo en España: ensayos sobre los orígenes sociales y culturales del franquismo (in Spanish). Barcelona: Editorial El Viejo Topo. ISBN 8496356329. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
See also
References
- ISBN 9788497563130.
- ^ ISBN 978-0268032685.
External links
Media related to Onésimo Redondo at Wikimedia Commons- "Web dedicada a Onésimo Redondo" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 17 March 2016. Tribute website to Redondo. Falangist and biased source, but with copious information about him.
