What on earth do you think Franco's Falange was, if not a direct copy of the Italian Fasciti and the German Nazis? The only advantage that Franmco had over the German and Italian dictators was that he [Franco] was astute enough not to drag Spain into World War II. Spain had enough damage to repair from the 1930's Civil War that he did not need to take any other militaristic ventures.
The rest of the Right wing dictator policies were copied rather scrupulously by Franco - a shut down of all opposition, even free speech, jailing and execution of Freemasons, concentration camps, execution of political opponents,etc.
A marriage of convenience between the Syndicalists of JONS and the Carlist-Integrists of the Requétes, both of which groups played vital roles in defeating the Stalinoids. The "Falangist" National Movement had nothing in common with the pagan, blood-and-soil socialism of the Nazi party, and little resemblance to the atheistic, imperialist state-worship of the Fascists under Mussolini. Being neither ideologue nor imperialist, Franco's goals were neither racial purity (the goal of the Nazis) nor empire (the goal of the Fascists) for Spain; he simply insisted that Spain survive as an organic and culturally Catholic entity, and the so-called Falange was merely his means to that end.
History has judged Franco harshly as a dictator who established a repressive police state, but in reality he was simply the only man with the courage to do what obviously had to be done to root out and destroy the filthy Republican regime, both during and in the years following the war. Despite his near-universal condemnation, however, he neither asked permission nor forgiveness of the world for doing his duty toward Spain, and I will always respect his memory for that.
As for his soul -- well, I'm sure our Lord will judge him justly.