[Castlebar]

Churchill and Roosevelt "allowed" Allied Air Forces to bomb a hell of lot more cities and civilians then Guernica ever contained. Be careful what you use for a moral measuring stick during wartime.

State visit to Nazi Germany? The ENTIRE world sent their Olympic teams to parade and salute Hitler.

Franco, while at war, got what he wanted from the Axis.

The Axis, at war, got NOTHING in return from Franco.

Not one Jew was ever turned over to Hitler's clutches; hundreds of thousands were given refuge.

Get over the Lincoln Brigade bull$h1t. Franco won, and freedom was the better for it.

[jmacusa]

The Olympics are a sporting event, not state craft. ‘’Churchill and Roosevelt allowed the Allied Air Forces to to bomb a lot more cities and civilians..’’ Are you for real? It was a war for cryin’ out loud!,a war Nazi Germany started! The Luftwaffe did a pretty damn good job on Warsaw,Rotterdam, London and Coventry to name a few. And they were doing all that two years before we got into it. In 1944 the Krauts played the overture to what would become the weapons systems used by all the major armies of the world when they started bombing Britain with the V-1, grand daddy of the Cruise Missile and then it's big brother the V-2, the worlds first inter continental ballistic missile. Christ sake, talk about moral equivalence and moral idiocy.Adios pal, I'm done talking to you.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

State visit to Nazi Germany? The ENTIRE world sent their Olympic teams to parade and salute Hitler.

Franco never visited Germany. He and Hitler met at the town on Hendaye, on the French-Spanish border. They met for 12 hours, with HItler pressuring Franco to join the war on his side. Franco wouldn't commit to anything, pleading that he'd just finished his own war, and Hitler later famously said he'd "rather have three or four teeth pulled" than negotiate with Franco again.

But I would submit that there's a difference between meeting with Hitler (or sending an Olympic team) in 1936 and meeting with Hitler in 1940. In 1936, he hadn't repudiated the VersaillesTreaty, annexed Austria, started a war and conquered Poland, Czechoslavakia, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands. In 1940 he had.