Articles written by Gutmaro Gómez Bravo

A bridge in Lyon over the Rhône river that was destroyed by the Germans in their 1944 retreat from the French city in order to complicate the Allies’ advance.

The historian and member of the Resistance, who was executed by the Nazis in 1944, will become one of the illustrious figures inducted into France’s Pantheón

Italy's Benito Mussolini with Spain's Francisco Franco in 1941.

History

The modern dictator’s handbook

Gutmaro Gómez Bravo|Dec 31, 2023 - 14:04 CET

A book by Frank Dikötter analyzes the common traits of 20th century despots

Photograph from the Photographic Archive of Madrid, showing the Yeserías prison and the Miguel de Unamuno high school.

Spanish Civil War

A Spanish Civil War grave under a school in downtown Madrid

Gutmaro Gómez Bravo|Oct 23, 2023 - 17:23 CEST

The Miguel de Unamuno high school, next to the old Yeserías prison, was turned into a concentration camp for Republican prisoners after the conflict. To date, no excavations have been permitted

Scene from the Netflix documentary, 'Ordinary Men.'

REVIEW

‘Ordinary Men’: the Nazi horror through the eyes of the perpetrators

Gutmaro Gómez Bravo|Sep 20, 2023 - 15:55 CEST

The meticulously crafted Netflix documentary poignantly recounts one of the darkest chapters in recent human history

A German officer escorts a convoy of prisoners along a street in Tarnów, Poland, June 1940.

Auschwitz

First train to Auschwitz: Newly discovered photographs believed to show earliest Polish deportation

Gutmaro Gómez Bravo|Madrid|Jun 20, 2023 - 12:14 CEST

A collector has donated a series of images showing the arrival of a convoy of prisoners that inaugurated transfers to the concentration camp in June 1940