With the revised edition of "Night Over Spain," the most famous work of anarcho-syndicalist Augustin Souchy is available again after a long time. July 1936. Following the military coup, the Catalan metropolis is also caught up in the Spanish Civil War. Present from the very beginning is the German anarchist Augustin Souchy. In his memoirs "Night Over Spain," he describes how Catalonia became the center of a unique libertarian revolution after the victory over the military. He provides a detailed account of the spread of social changes to Castile and Aragon. However, social progress and anarchist structures are increasingly threatened by the civil war and the conflicts between anarchists and communists, ultimately culminating in their destruction with Franco's victory in 1939.