The National Historical Archive of Spain should be “focus of global concern”, as evidenced by two of its latest findings: the press card in the Spanish Civil War of Antoine de Saint-Exupery or a letter from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover of the government of the Second Republic.
So says Efe researcher Policarpo Sánchez, specializing in heritage, one of the best connoisseurs bottom of this file located in Salamanca (center) and has been responsible for these findings.
This is the license reporter when made landfall in Spain as special envoy of the newspaper in the case of the French writer, Paris -Soir to report the Madrid front during the Civil War (1936-1939).
A permit photographer that the Executive Board of Defense of Madrid issued on 16 April 1937 the author of The Little Prince, who endorsed the poet and journalist Corpus Barga and the then State Minister of the Second Republic, Julio Alvarez del Vayo.
the writer then was 36 years , as stated in the license, and during his stay in Madrid was staying at the legendary hotel Florida (demolished in 1964) at the Plaza de Callao, and where foreign correspondents were staying during the war, as Robert Capa, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos- .
Policarpo Sánchez, who on Thursday will report in Salamanca a proposal to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Deport and to promote the cultural use of the Archive of Salamanca, has found also an letter from founder and FBI director John Edgar Hoover.
the head of the FBI requested the authorities of the Second Republic information on the activity of certain US citizens in Spain.
“It’s time to get the real party that has the Archive of Salamanca, to bring out their true cultural value, to give the ultimate accolade as the focus of global interest, “also from the historical and social perspective, Sanchez said in an interview with Efe.
Mainly configured from political, social, trade union and police documents that the Franco regime seized at the end of the fratricidal conflict for purifying and enforcement purposes, it was created as General Archive of the Civil War and today is called the Documentation Center of Historical Memory.
“More than half of its funds they were not rated “when they lost interest to the Franco regime,” more concerned with the passage of time in the emergence of new enemies, different from those defeated in the Civil War “, which also resulted in the absence of a classification with archival criteria.
the result is “ a lot of funds uncatalogued ” unopened boxes and papers lost, ie in places unexpected as the license Saint-Exupery or letter of Hoover, located by a methodical work of consultation “document by document”.
came upon them, he said, while searching for materials produce a book dedicated to the role of cinema during the Civil War, “the first war in history where the film was used as a means of social communication”.
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