Our top story tonight: Generallissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Posted on 07/07/2002 3:39:57 PM PDT by scouse
Our top story tonight: Generallissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
It's a love beat.....it's a heart beat.......and when we meet....
Hitler supposedly told an aide that he would rather have his teeth pulled out than have another meeting like the one he had just had with Franco. If that isn't a character recommendation, I don't know what is.
Yes, and they did it with the complicity of the New York Times, the Wash. Post, NBC and ABC. Last, and by no means least, is CBS and the most trusted commie in America, "Uncle Walter".
Well said. May I quote you?
General Francisco Franco of Spain was another leader whose ideological sympathies with National Socialism led him to the brink of a close alliance with the Reich. Like Salazar, however, he refrained from completely crossing that line. In March 1939, Spain concluded the Anti-Comintern Pact with Nazi Germany (it augmented the secret treaties for diplomatic and economic cooperation of March and July 1937). And as of June 13, 1940, Franco moved Spain from neutrality to nonbelligerency, which reflected unambiguous sympathy for the Axis . . .With respect to immigration and transmigration policies, the Spanish were similar to other neutrals: there was a general reluctance to accommodate refugees. Requirements for visas were both stringent and variable, and the Spanish bureaucracy frequently created nightmarish situations for those trying to flee the Nazis. . .
One historian has stated that 28,000 fugitives were smuggled across the French-Spanish border during the war, including 20,000 Frenchmen (many of whom later fought for De Gaulle's Free French forces28). The Spanish, then, were much like the Swiss when it came to assisting refugees: while they attempted to discourage those seeking asylum, in the end they did save a number of lives. . .
In return for German arms, Franco eventually provided valuable mineral resources and other raw materials to the Reich. By the end of the Spanish Civil War and the onset of World War II, Franco had incurred significant debts to the Germans and this increased Hitler's leverage over the Generalissimo. On December 22, 1939, Spain and Germany signed a treaty in which Franco "agreed to reserve the greater part of [his nation's] exports for Germany, in particular iron ore, zinc, lead, mercury, wolfram, wool, and hides."30 Spain, then, contributed significantly to the German war effort, at least up to the autumn of 1942 . . .
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Jews know that Franco was helpful to many Jews escaping the Nazis. Has even been speculated that Franco had some kind of part Jewish background. This is common knowledge and what the ADL thinks is irrelevant. And of course what you say about the ADL is even more irrelevant.
The longer I live and learn, the less appealing the communist movement becomes. They have no shame, yet they obsess over humiliation. Many in academia - Marxist historians like the oh-so-repulsive Eric Foner come to mind - continue to churn out revisionist sludge slandering anyone who stood up to the Comintern.
For carrying an eternal grudge, first place is a toss-up: Islam is still po'd about getting booted from Spain, and so is its secular socialist counterpart.
Only learned that recently. We were taught in school Franco was evil incarnate.
The lies they tell? (just a guess)
The real truth is that the ball never hit the turf or Tatum.
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