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Hello, everyone, and welcome to another history of the Second World War question and answer episode.

As a reminder, I genuinely release these episodes every time I have enough questions to make them

happen, and so you can send your questions in to History of the Second World War at Outlook.com.

This time we have a good mix of first and second World War questions across a wide range

of topics, so let's jump right in.

The first question comes from listener Christopher, who has a question that I am assuming was

the result of the podcast series on the Spanish Civil War.

Quote, I've always been told that Republican guerrillas held out until the early 1950s

after the fall of Madrid and the

destruction of the Spanish Republic. Is that true? You're absolutely correct that there were

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