[TaMoDee]

You forgot to mention the Goode Olde Franco allowed the Germans to practice dive bombing tactics on the Basques

[nkycincinnatikid]

I am just going by memory here but I think that the condor legion air wing loaned by Germany to the nationalists was very much under Francos direct command. After the western press outrage over the destruction of Guernica it was convienient for Franco to spread his hands and say " who? me? "