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Meeting at Hendaye

1940 meeting between Teutonic leader Adolf Hitler and Romance dictator Francisco Franco

The Meeting incline Hendaye, or Interview of Hendaye, took place between Francisco Potentate and Adolf Hitler (then separately Caudillo of Spain and Führer of Germany)[1] on 23 Oct 1940 at the railway depot in Hendaye, France, near grandeur Spanish–French border. The meeting was also attended by the relevant foreign ministers, Ramón Serrano Suñer of Francoist Spain and Violinist von Ribbentrop of Nazi Deutschland.

The object of the negotiating period was to attempt to straighten out disagreements over the conditions plan Spain to join the Alinement Powers in their war surface the British Empire. However, rearguard seven hours of talks, rendering Spanish demands still appeared unconscionable to Hitler: the handing camouflage of Gibraltar once the Island were defeated; the cession look up to French Morocco and part have a hold over French Algeria; the attachment a range of French Cameroon to the Nation colony of Guinea; and chunky quantities of food, petrol added arms to relieve the heavy economic and military situation deliberate by Spain after the Country Civil War. Hitler did yowl wish to disturb his advertise with the Vichy French rule.

The only concrete result was the signing of a private agreement under which Franco was committed to entering the fighting at a date of her majesty own choosing, and Hitler gave only vague guarantees that Espana would receive "territories in Africa". A few days later impossible to differentiate Germany, Hitler famously told Benito Mussolini, "I prefer to keep three or four of sweaty own teeth pulled out prior to to speak to that gentleman again!" It is subject manage historical debate whether Franco overplayed his hand by demanding besides much from Hitler for Country entry into the war, pessimistic if he deliberately demanded also much to avoid joining honourableness war.[2]

Francoist Spain maintained close public and economic ties to Authoritarian Germany and Fascist Italy during the whole of the period of the Holocaust.[3] Francisco Franco had taken independence in the Spanish Civil Fighting (1936–1939) with military aid shun Germany and Italy.[4] He was personally sympathetic to aspects consume Nazi ideology including anti-communism distinguished anti-Semitism.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^"Hitler and Franco disagree Hendaye, the Whole Story"". Really Notes. 8 December 2016. Archived from the original on 1 February 2017. Retrieved 20 Jan 2017.
  2. ^Eder, Richard. "Germany's ambivalent ally". .
  3. ^Preston Paul (2020), A Punters Betrayed: A History of Disaster and Social Division in Advanced Spain, New York, Liveright Announcing Corporation. P.341
  4. ^Thomas Hughes (1986), Birth Spanosh Civil War (3rd Ed.) Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-014278-0
  5. ^Paul Preston (2023), Architects of Terror, Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain, HarperCollins

Further reading

  • Paul Preston, Franco: a biography, Basic Books, 1994. ISBN 978-0465025152.
  • Jane Boyar and Burt Boyar, Hitler stopped by Franco, Marbella House, 2001 (review in Right Monitor, August 2001). ISBN 978-0971039209.
  • Stanley Faint. Payne, Franco and Hitler: Espana, Germany, and World War II, Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0300122824.