Talk:Juan Tusquets Terrats

Plagiarism

The entirety of the article--word-for-word, with a few minor alterations--is lifted directly from pages 34-37 of the book The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston, which is not cited in the "References" section.

Below is the relevant text from Preston's book:

"He [Tusquets] was ordained in 1926 and was soon regarded as one of the brightest hopes of Catalan philosophy. Renowned for his piety and his enormous culture, he became a teacher in the seminary of the Catalan capital, where he was commissioned to write a book the theosophical movement of the controversial spiritualist Madame Blavatsky. In the wake of its success, he developed an obsessive interest in secret societies.

"Despite, or perhaps because of, his own remote Jewish origins, by the time the Second Republic was established Tusquets's investigations into secret societies had developed into a fierce anti-Semitism and an even fiercer hatred of Freemasonry. In a further rejection of his family background, he turned violently against Catalan Nationalism and gained great notoriety by falsely accusing the Catalan leader Francesc Macià of being a Freemason. Working with another priest, Joaquim Guiu Bonastre, he built up a network of what he called 'my faithful and intrepid informers'." (Preston, 35)

Note: In the article, there are quotation marks around the term "obsessive interest in secret societies", but the source of the term is not cited.

"...articles that Tusquets contributed to the Carlist newspaper El Correo Catalán..." (Preston, 35)

"Published in Russia in 1903 and based on German and French novels of the 1860s, this fantastical concoction [The Protocols of the Elders of Zion] purveyed the idea that a secret Jewish government, the Elders of Zion, was plotting the destruction of Christianity and Jewish world domination." (Preston, 34)

"Tusquets used The Protocols as 'documentary' evidence of his essential thesis that the Jews were bent on the destruction of Christian civilization. Their instruments were Freemasons and Socialists who did their dirty work by means of revolution, economic catastrophes, unholy and pornographic propaganda and unlimited liberalism. He condemned the Second Republic as the child of Freemasonry and denounced the President, the piously Catholic Niceto Alcalá Zamora, as both a Jew and a Freemason. The message was clear--Spain and the Catholic Church could be saved only by the destruction of Jews, Freemasons and Socialists--in other words, of the entire left of the political spectrum. Origenes de la revolución española sold massively and also provoked a noisy polemic which gave even greater currency to his ideas. His notion that the Republic was a dictatorship in the hands of 'Judaic Freemasonry' was further disseminated through his many articles in El Correo Catalán and a highly successful series of fifteen books (Las Sectas) attacking Freemasonry, communism and Judaism.

"The second volume of Las Sectas included a complete translation of The Protocols and also repeated his slurs on Macià. The section entitled 'their application to Spain' asserted that the Jewish assault on Spain was visible both in the Republic's persecution of religion and in the movement for agrarian reform via the redistribution of the great estates. Made famous by his writings, in late 1933 Tusquets was invited by the International Anti-Masonic Association to visit the recently concentration camp at Dachau. He remarked that 'they did it to show what we had to do in Spain.' ... Despite his favorable comments at the time, Tusquets would claim later to have been shocked by what he saw. Certainly the visit did nothing to stem the flow and the intensity of his anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic publications.

"Tusquets would come to have enormous influence within the Spanish right in general and specifically over General Franco, who enthusiastically devoured his anti-Masonic and anti-Semitic diatribes. ... Franco's most powerful collaborator, his brother-in-law Ramón Serrano Suñer, would later praise Tusquets's contribution to 'the creation of the atmosphere which led to the National uprising'. However, he did more than just develop the ideas that justified violence. He was involved in the military plot against the Republic through his links with Catalan Carlists. ... When Tusquets finally became a collaborator of Franco in Burgos during the Civil War, his files on alleged Freemasons would provide an important part of the organizational infrastructure of the repression." (Preston, 36-37)

As can clearly be seen, the entire article, save for one small, cited quotation from another source, directly copies from the above passages without giving credit, and is a serious act of plagiarism that needs to be addressed.

Source:

Preston, Paul. The Spanish holocaust : inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2013. Print.

68.192.41.50 (talk) 04:08, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

I added the material - I don't remember where I got the material from or why I didn't add Preston if that's where I read it - not to add preston as a source was an oversight but really I don't think its a serious act of plagiarism - probably I was trying to précis quite a few pages to get the gist and then when that was done thought my job was done and forgot to say where I précised from. if its too close word choice wise, why not edit it better Sayerslle (talk) 17:07, 17 July 2014 (UTC)