Franco and Hitler : Spain, Germany, and World War II / Stanley G. Payne.
Payne, Stanley G.
2008
D754.S6 P39 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Franco and Hitler : Spain, Germany, and World War II / Stanley G. Payne.
Author Payne, Stanley G.
ISBN 9780300122824 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300122829 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300151220
0300151225
Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Language English
Description viii, 328 pages ; 25 cm
Other Standard Identifiers 9780300122824
Call Number D754.S6 P39 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.53/46
Summary "Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? To what extent did Spain assist Jewish refugees? This is the first book in any language to answer these intriguing questions. Stanley Payne, a leading historian of modern Spain, explores the full range of Franco's relationship with Hitler, from 1936 to the Fall of the Reich in 1945." "Whereas Payne investigates the evolving relationship of the two regimes up to the conclusion of World War II, his principal concern is the enigma of Spain's unique position during the war, as a semi-fascist country struggling to maintain a tortured neutrality. Why Spain did not enter the war as a German ally, joining Hitler to seize Gibraltar and close the Mediterranean to the British navy, is at the center of Payne's narrative. Franco's only personal meeting with Hitler, in 1940 to discuss precisely this, is recounted here in groundbreaking detail that also sheds significant new light on the Spanish government's vacillating policy toward Jewish refugees, on the Holocaust, and on Spain's German connection throughout the duration of the war."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-308) and index.
Available in Other Form Franco and Hitler.
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I: From Civil War to World War
The Spanish Civil War
Hitler's strategy in the Civil War
Military and international significance of the Civil War
A tilted neutrality
II: "Nonbelligerence"
Franco's temptation
The meeting at Hendaye and its aftermath
The Zenith of collaboration
Temptation continues
The Blue division
Temptation abates
Temptation ends
III: The struggle to escape the "axis stigma"
Spanish diplomacy and the Holocaust (I)
Spanish diplomacy and the Holocaust (II)
Neutrality by compulsion
The end of the relationship.

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