1941 A WORLD AT WAR / SPANISH STORY

These three kids who lived in Madrid, neighborhood Tetuan de las Victorias, they happened to be born when the world was at war.

Millions of souls were losing their lives on the battlefields, in the bombing of cities, in villages, in extermination camps, while new beings were born and occupied the vacancies left by millions dead.

Ironica or macabre law of life and death, some leave and others occupy sites that have left missing.
destroyed and Humans breeds simultaneously, is what keeps him from certain extinction in times of trouble, war and destruction.

Tens of millions of deaths would leave large gaps in the towns and fields of Europe systematically destroyed by a greater catastrophe than even the previous occurred a few years earlier.

A turbulent and apocalyptic world plunged into World War II, was the one who came to receive them no they were aware of what hit them.

A major, Paquita, was born in 1940 when the German army invaded nations and cities in a lightning operation seemed exchange borders and the fate of entire nations in Europe in those years.

The girl came into the world just begun a harsh winter that decimated starved bodies of millions of hungry Spaniards and numb with cold, and a half finished after the civil war in Spain.

 

Burgos was and is a glorious and austere land, forge de Castilla, the cradle of El Cid and other heroes throughout history.
also is a cold land where they exist, with winters that can freeze your blood, and this 1940 in he was born was particularly cold small with large and abundant snowfall.

Salas de los Infantes was born where the small town where his parents had established his house to serve as casino, dance hall and cafeteria. 
parents married one After finishing the civil war on October 12, 1939.

Survivor war and after years of being at the front fighting, Emiliano, decided it was arrival the chance to marry his girlfriend of years.

Could have lost their lives in the first line countless times, it was not so and after five years or over distance relationship I decided it was time to start a family and realize their relationship at a wedding held in that city, where the first of their children born.

they were crazy or what? 
Bring the world a creature in such adverse circumstances?
Without this, with an uncertain future, a war that ravaged Europe and Spain bled and miserable where people fled from the big cities to escape the famine.

Conscious or not their responsibility This couple established Salas felt what all new parents experience, joy, love and joy content to watch a godita and beautiful creature that had cost his mother great efforts to parirla.

Dr. had to come riding a mule through fields with more than half a meter of snow. It took but was born and bawling like crazy leaving everyone without sleep in the big house they called "The Casino."

Nobody chooses at birth and this creature certainly not chose yours. 

Le waited difficult time, hunger and extreme needs in a post-war Spain, surrounded by fighters in Europe, and performed by the great purges Regimen of winners in the last Civil war.

's new parent, overwhelmed by his wife circunstacians and weakened by a difficult childbirth, had the bright idea to call his family, mother, father and sisters, who lived in a nearby town.
thought, dreamer, his mother and sisters could help the mother soon saw something that had been a miserable idea.

After a few months of living in the big house, I finally had to ask them they were the way they had come because they were no longer necessary and the stresses of his new wife with his family, were sensational and everyday.

Here we leave this couple age 26, one small, two cats, a maid brought from Burgos other people, a Casino that regentar and a lifetime ahead to bring more children into the world and live years later in Madrid, the capital of a great city that Spain subtracted decades penalties and hardships that would last until the late fifties.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Spain in 1959 diciciembre seeking alliances and bases locate weapons, aircraft and missiles in the middle of the "Cold War" against the Soviet Union.
 

Franco, eager to be accepted in international fora, opened wide the doors of the nation to the new saviors of Europe, Americans who wanted to establish their combat bases in different parts of the old continent and particularly near several cities Spanish considered strategic for their purposes.

are Contain prevailing communism in Eastern nations under the tutelage of Soviet Russia was a priority, and Spain were opened some international forums closed to his dictatorial and repressive winner civil strife Regimen again.
Bread, milk, American cheese and coca cola in exchange for military bases in Torrejon (Madrid), Zaragoza, Rota and some more strategic points.
"Welcome Mr. Marshall," was the trend in the late fifties early sixties come the Americans with hands full of gifts, chocolates, margarine and especially Coca Cola and pepsi, open our doors to new civilization overseas.

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