[LarryLied]

The Anti-Defamation League has a different view of Franco. No mention of 60,000 Jews being saved. Maybe it is somewhere else on the ADL site but I could not find it:

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 . . .
FULL ARTICLE

[dennisw]

What's your obsession with the ADL? So pathetic!!!! You are like a broken record, needle stuck in a bum groove.

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.

[sheik yerbouty]

Franco, during WW2 was far less a villain than most people think. He refused Hitler's demand to let his troops march in and take Gibraltar.

[Phil V.]

What's your obsession with the ADL?

The lies they tell? (just a guess)

[SJackson]

Always nice to hear from the white supremacist corner Lar. My interest in the ADLs opinion on Franco is about the same as my interest in your opinion on many things. Bye

[xvb]

Are you on the ADL payroll? You give them so much free publicity. o-;