Hitler’s Jewish refugees: hope and anxiety in Portugal

Abstract

behavior, and political organization have persisted beyond the dictator’s death and the democratic transition. If “the uncertainty about the dictatorship’s ending was a feature of the Francoist era,” she writes, uncertainty “persists today, albeit in an inverted form: . . . as a critique of the regime’s continued presence within Spanish democracy”: “While the regime was haunted by the prospect of its ending, the postFranco era is haunted by the dictatorship’s non-ending” (5, 7). It is best to read this book less as a standard scholarly monograph – for which the bibliography is too eclectic and the dialogue with existing specialized scholarship too spotty – than as an essayistic, nuanced, theoretically informed reflection that, in turn, invites its readers to question their assumptions about the last 90 years of Spanish history.