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Tonight is the anniversary of Kristallnacht- night of 9 November 1938 during which hundreds of German Jews were murdered and thousands of businesses and synagogues burnt. The contrast in the Spanish Republican and Francoist press could not have been greater; the former, despite its own desperate situation, offered support to the victims and saw the fate of German jews as their own while the Francoist press reacted with glee, as one Falangist paper headlined: “A clear warning to international Jewry never again to make attempts on the lives of Germans." Support was reiterated in a Republican government declaration in Barcelona the week later and reproduced in the press: "Those responsible for these crimes are the promoters of the slanderous propaganda from July 1936 which has been made against Spain and its government [...] Spain will, pained by the attack on human dignity of the heinous pogroms of Nazi Germany, offer, once the war is over, and within the limits of its possibilities, shelter to those persecuted for their origin, and political or religious beliefs , who wish to come to Spain." Meanwhile in Franco’s Spain on 18 November, ABC headlined "Echoes and records of red criminality", which went on to declare: "Besides hosting on its soil all the scum of the International Brigades ," the government of the Republic "will give all facilities to all Jews who want to move to Red Spain ( ... ) This law [sic] is preparing for the invasion of Red Spain by international Jewry. Excellent article La España en guerra ante la 'Kristallnacht' elpais.com/diario/2008/11/11…