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JOSE ANTONIO AGIRRE LEKUBE

JOSE ANTONIO AGIRRE LEKUBE. Biography - Born in Bilbao in 1904 - Member of the EAJ-PNV party. - Mayor of Getxo, near Bilbao. - First President of the Basque Autonomous Government of Euzkadi. The Autonomous Republic of Euzkadi. Spanish Civil War

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JOSE ANTONIO AGIRRE LEKUBE

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  1. JOSE ANTONIO AGIRRE LEKUBE Biography - Born in Bilbao in 1904 - Member of the EAJ-PNV party. - Mayor of Getxo, near Bilbao. - First President of the Basque Autonomous Government of Euzkadi.

  2. The Autonomous Republic of Euzkadi

  3. Spanish Civil War The Basque regions of Navarre and Araba quickly fell into the rebels’ control The autonomous Republic of Euzkadi was established

  4. Agirre formed an army and a governmentThe Basque Army managed to mobilize 100,000 soldiers.

  5. The Autonomous Republic of Euzkadiduring the Civil War

  6. Defeat and exile of President Agirre

  7. Exile during World War II José Antonio Agirre fled to France after the war He and his family escaped the long arms of the Nazis.

  8. Agirre led the Euzkadi Delegation in Buenos Aires.  he went to Uruguay  he set up a big Basque exiles network  he went to France Agirre died in Paris on 22 March 1960 of a heart attack, aged 56.

  9. Basque contribution to resistance against Nazism and Fascism in Europe

  10. WHY SHOULD HE BE A EUROPEAN HERO?He formed a government and an armyHe set up a big Basque exiles network to work for the Allies against nazis and fascists.

  11. JOSE ANTONIO AGIRRETHE EUROPEAN HERO!!!

  12. MADE BY:LOREA ETXEBERRIAMAIALEN ALDALURMAIALEN AGIRREIRIS PETERSANNE ADRIAENSDANIQUE RAUTERT

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