Jose Millan Astray Quotes
Death to intellectuals!
Jose Millan Astray, 1879-1954, Spanish Fascist/Nationalist General in the Spanish Civil War, Minister of Press and Propaganda (Nationalists), Founder of the Spanish Foreign Legion, October 1936
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Germany had been a world intellectual center of science, arts and letters. After the Nazi’s came to power most of the great German Intellectual leaders like Albert Einstein—both Jews and non-Jews—left Germany. A few like Roth remained, but those espoused by the Nazis were second rate and the “feebelists of dilettantes.”
Evelyn John St. Loo Strachey
Such intellectuals as Max Eastman. John Dos Passos, and James Rorty were officially so classified.
José Millán-Astray y Terreros was a Spanish soldier, the founder and first commander of the Spanish Legion, and a major early figure of Francoist Dictatorship.