Ismael Saz
Ismael Saz Campos is a Spanish historian, specialised in the study of Falangism, Francoist Spain and the Spanish-Italian relations during the Spanish Civil War. He is a professor at the University of Valencia.
Biography
He was born in 1952 in Valencia. He earned a PhD at the University of Valencia in 1986. His dissertation dealt with the understanding of the Italian-Spanish relations until the Italian intervention in the Spanish Civil War.Saz, who has conceptualised the Francoist regime as a "fascistised dictatorship", has posed in his work the struggle between Fascist and National-Catholic nationalisms within the regime. Full professor of the UV, he was appointed to a Chair of Contemporary History in 2002.