On this day, 21 August 1944, the Maquis uprising took place in Paris where more than 4,000 Spanish exiles took up arms against the occupying Nazi regime in the battle to liberate the capital. Exiled Spanish civil war fighters were also the first external anti-fascist troops to enter the city. This is a short history of Spanish involvement in the French resistance: https://libcom.org/history/articles/spanish-resistance-in-france-1939
Pictured: Spanish anti-fascist fighters in the Paris liberation parade shortly after https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1192650294253452/?type=3
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