Jesús Palacios Tapias (born 1952) is a Spanish essayist who has authored several books about contemporary history of Spain. He was a member of the neo-nazi

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, now disbanded.

Biography

Born in

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in 1952, Palacios participated in the 1972

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(WACL) congress in

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, where, dressed in a brown shirt and a black tie, he declared before the audience that

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was a tool to "install the tyranny of the Jews". During his youth, Palacios also served as delegate of Foreign Relations of the

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, while his brother Isidro Juan held the role of chief of the Madrilenian delegation of the Barcelona-based organization, established on 30 March 1973, during an event in which Palacios participated as speaker next to president Jorge Mota. Palacios also took part in a meeting of the so-called "Black International" of neo-fascist groups in

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. He edited along with his brother the

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journals ''Ruta Solar'' and ''Cuadernos de Cultura Vertical''. As the owner of the limited company Sarmata S.L., he was the producer of a documentary for

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, made in 2006 (''Las claves del 23-F''). In 2010 he gave a course in criminology at the

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, in which Juan Antonio Aguilar, former member of

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, was a speaker. He is the author of several books dealing with the contemporary history of Spain, including two books authored ''ex-aequo'' with right-leaning historian

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, one of them a biography of the dictator

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described as distilling a "

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tone".

Works

* ''Las cartas de Franco'' (La Esfera de los Libros, 2005) * Franco y Juan Carlos. ''Del franquismo a la Monarquía'' (Flor del Viento, 2005) * ''Franco, mi padre: testimonio de Carmen Franco, la hija del Caudillo'' (La Esfera de los Libros, 2008), co-author along

. * ''23 F, el Rey y su secreto'' (Libros Libres 2011) * ''Franco, una biografía personal y política'' (Espasa Calpe, 2014), co-author along

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References

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