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![Dreams and Nightmares](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1975Call Number: V 044Format: VHSProducers: Abe OsherhoffCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The film is a montage of newsreel footage of Depression America and the Spanish Civil War itself intercut with material shot by Mr. Osheroff in contemporary Spain.
A powerful account of Abe Osheroff's personal involvement with the Spanish Civil War,
He was one of the roughly 3,000 American men and women who volunteered between 1937 and 1938 to fight in defense of the Spanish republic against the fascist forces of Francisco Franco and his allies, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The American volunteers, known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, were part of a larger international brigade of 40,000 people who went to Spain to try and stem the tide of European fascism in the late 1930s.
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