13th International Brigade Wall Newspaper

The 1st Company of the 50th Battalion belonged to the 13th International Brigade (known as the Dombrowski Brigade). Though this brigade had many Polish soldiers, by the time of the Battle of the Ebro (the last great battle of the civil war), nearly half the fighters were Spanish.

"… and with great feeling, I won't tell you anything more … because, although I admire you very much, I don't know enough." Garibaldi Battalion.

"Madrid! … Brave combatant,
who with courage and skill

twice won
your place as Spain's capital. Madrid, whose lands are bathed
in the hot blood
of your brave army,
who have saved all of Spain."

"Who does not have etched in their memory the heroic deeds of the brave militia expelling the Italians, Germans, Moors, and unworthy Spaniards from the streets of the undefeated Spanish capital?"

These are the words of Juan Negrín, who was president of the Republican government from May 1937 to March 1939. He continued to serve as president of the Republic from exile in London until August 1945. He died in Paris on November 12, 1956.

"When a city is as determined as Madrid, there is no power in the world that can break its resolve to fight. Madrid! It never was and never will be fascist. And those of us who are currently in the same conditions as we have been for two years, on this side of the Ebro, promise …"

"On November 7, 1936, Madrid—Spain's heroic, resistant, old, beautiful [sic] capital—would be under threat from the fascist talons within a few hours …"