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Article: A Spanish Civil War vet reflects on fighting and sacrifice.(Features)(Learning)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 16, 2001
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Byline: Sara B. Miller Special to The Christian Science Monitor
MADRID -- Milton Wolff was 21 years old when he decided to pay his own way to Spain to fight Fascism during the Spanish Civil War. A Jew from New York, he was one of 800 Americans who defied their government in the late 1930s to fight General Francisco Franco, who was leading a right-wing rebellion supported by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini against Spain's newly elected government. "I was high as a kite," Mr. Wolff recalls.
Wolff quickly rose to battalion commander, befriending the literati along the way, and writing letters to his mother about his work in a factory, the story he had ...