To: belmont_mark
You are correct that Franco was neutral during World War Two. Spain was never one of the Axis powers. Unlike Mussolini, Franco did not invade any member state of the League of Nations (as Italy did to Ethiopia, Greece and Albania).
And you forgot to mention that, after D-day, Spain did allow the allied powers permission to stage attacks against the Germans from Spanish territory.
Franco and the Falange prevented Spain from being taken over like Tsarist Russia, and the massacre of millions by the "Republican" Spanish communists, was averted. For that act, Franco and the Falange have never been forgiven by the world's "progressives".
19 posted on
03/11/2004 6:35:09 PM PST by
pinochet
To: pinochet
You forgot to mention the Goode Olde Franco allowed the Germans to practice dive bombing tactics on the Basques
23 posted on
03/11/2004 7:08:05 PM PST by
TaMoDee
To: pinochet
In the movie The Great Escape, the escaped POWs who make it to the Spanish border (I forget how many made it there, whether one or more) are safe from the Germans.
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