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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.

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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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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.

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The Autonomous Republic of Euzkadi

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Spanish Civil War

The Basque regions of Navarre and Araba quickly fell into the rebels’ control

The autonomous Republic of Euzkadi was established

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Agirre formed an army and a government

The Basque Army managed to mobilize 100,000 soldiers.

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The Autonomous Republic of Euzkadi

during the Civil War

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Defeat and exile of President Agirre

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José Antonio Agirre fled to France after the war

He and his family escaped the long arms of the Nazis.

Exile during World War II

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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.

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Basque contribution to resistance against Nazism and Fascism in

Europe

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WHY SHOULD HE BE A EUROPEAN HERO?

He formed a government and an army

He set up a big Basque exiles network to work for the Allies against nazis and fascists.

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JOSE ANTONIO AGIRRE

THE EUROPEAN HERO!!!

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MADE BY:

LOREA ETXEBERRIAMAIALEN ALDALURMAIALEN AGIRRE

IRIS PETERSANNE ADRIAENS

DANIQUE RAUTERT