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Krehm, William - Interview

Item number (ISN):

135950

Series title:

Spanish Civil War Oral History

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1965-02-03

Item number (ISN):

135950

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: SPANISH CIVIL WAR ORAL HISTORY TAPES

Accession:

1984-0026

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1965-02-03

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Mac Reynolds

Description:

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Interview of William Krehm, a journalist in Canada and Latin America and author of a pamphlet published by the League for a Revolutionary Workers Party entitled “Revolution and Counter Revolution in the Spanish Civil War”. He talks about his involvement in the Spanish Civil War, including his connection with a leftwing group which paid his way to Spain to attend the Conference of International Leftist Groups early in the war, the League for a Revolutionary Workers Party, the conference in Brussels in1936, Spanish anarchism as a political movement, the political situation in Catalonia, the march of Fascism, his motivation in getting involved, his hatred for Communism, his work for the Anarchist propaganda machine in Spain for seven or eight months, the prominence of the Anarchists in Catalonia and Barcelona in the early part of the war, the role of the workers’ committees in the formation of the militia, the agreement on non-intervention in Spain and the Fascist boycott of the agreement, Russian aid used for political ends, the shortage of supplies on the Aragon front, Communist tactics, the situation in Barcelona at the height of the hostilities between the Anarchists and the Communists in May 1937, the relationship between the two parties, the persecution of non-Communists and how this alienated many socialists, the significance of the war, the sympathy in Canada for the movement, Russian power and political influence in Spain, the relationship between the Trotskyites and the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, his representing a socialist organization in Spain, his arrest and imprisonment for his affiliations, his transfer from a prison operated by the Russian secret police to a prison run by the Spanish government, the treatment of other prisoners, his eventual departure from Spain, the writing and broadcasts he did, his idealism about socialism at the time, more about his arrest, and the fate of some of his compatriots.

Language:

English

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1. Description based on Oral History Interview Analysis, probably prepared by CBC, a copy of which is in the collection file.

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Vault ISN:

119454

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C06868

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

99:10

Made from:

1984-0026/1
1984-0026/2

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

392229

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1984-0026/1
1984-0026/2

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

396519

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2004-05-0009
A1 2004-05-0010

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

101:15

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1002295

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2004-05-0009
A4 2004-05-0010

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1985-0026/1
1985-0026/2

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2004-05-0009
A1 2004-05-0010

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Reproduction access:

to be determined

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