Mrs Marie Claude
So Diez del Pulager was the _official_ chronicler of the Catholic Kings and was allowed to falsely tell that the King, the Queen’s confessor and their best general (Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba) were Jews without one of the above taking action against him? Strange isn’t it (Note: Del Pulgar wrote when all the powerful men I mentioned were still alive and at the heighth of their power. Was your historian at Vichy or was he one of those who found Vichy far too soft and preferred the real thing?
Now about the Second Republic. First:the left didn’t win the elections in 1936. There was massive fraud and intimidation during vote counting with bizarre things like districts were the right did’t get a sinle vote. So the official results weren’t published until, from memeory, 1937. At this point the left sel-proclaimed winner of the elections and threatened the very lives of the former governement. Between the elctions and the 18th July coup there were dozens of political murders (about 90% perpetrated by the left often with police active collaboration, 10% by the right) and there were a number of laws, say improper in a democracy, like the one making possible to send judges to jail for “politically wrong” sentences. You have to keep firmly in mind that the PSOE wasn’t like the French PS and that Largo Caballero wasn’t Blum: he liked to be named “the Spanish Lenin” (that is the guy who dissolved an elected Parliament and created Gulag) and his speeches, writings and actions make clear that he didn’t belmive in democracy and was no man to leave power acfter losing an election (he tells of liquidating an entire class). Now if ypou want to know more iontstead of taking at face value the allegations in websites of American universities (the ones where Noma chomski, Wrad Churchill and imilar foam at the mouth moonbats have a near monopoly) or from the thief of pieces of art André Malraux I advise you to go directly at the sources so I give you two from the Republican site: Azańa (President of the Republic in 1936) and Besteiro was the socialist major of Madrid during the war (but unlike Largo Caballero he was a democrat) what they say about their side isn’t pretty. It would help if you could read Spanish. 
