Starting in 1936, Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany began to assist General Francisco Franco of Spain in his effort to rescue his homeland from a Communist take-over. Stalin’s strategy of the “popular front” had succeeded in Spain, when a coalition of left-wing Socialist parties that included the Communist Party of Spain, supported by the USSR through the Communist International it dominated, claimed to have won the national election (allegations of vote fraud arose at once). Franco emerged as the military leader of the Nationalist coalition that opposed this take-over, and the Spanish Civil War began.
Chancellor Hitler knew of this struggle first-hand himself, having witnessed the Communist take-over of Bavaria in 1919 when Hitler was a young WWI veteran. He built up the National Socialist German Labour party to a point that in 1923 its activists attempted to take over the Bavarian government themselves to rescue it from another Communist coup, and from the inept and stagnant Parliamentary “democracy” (= plutocracy) that was allowing the ongoing destruction of the nation, primarily by Jews.
Hitler also knew that the greatest threat to Germany and all of Europe was an invasion by Stalin’s Red Army to impose a Communist totalitarian dictatorship, and so Hitler advocated peace and alliance for self-defense with all other European nations. Stalin had established air bases in Czechoslovakia, in the Bohemia/Moravia region (the Sudetenland) which had formerly been part of Germany before the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. These bases allowed for bombing runs within range of Germany’s industrial region, large cities and other national infrastructure. Stalin also attempted to establish air and naval bases in parts of North Africa, against which the Italian Fascists under Mussolini fought a war in 1935 in Abyssinia. Now, in 1936, Stalin appeared to have won political leadership for the Communist party in Spain, far advancing his plan of Encirclement of Europe while continuing to build up the military power of the Red Army.
So Hitler helped Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Franco and an expeditionary force were in Morocco across the Straits of Gibraltar when news of the election results were declared. At once Hitler sent the largest air-lift operation in history at the time to quickly get Franco and his military units back into Spain. The Communists and Anarchists were already rampaging, rioting and killing and looting, seizing positions of power, having prepared in advance with support from the Com-Intern.
The Civil War raged for 3 more years, and throughout Hitler sent significant support including supplies, trained advisors, military support personnel and even fielded a small air force squadron of German pilots. Mussolini of Italy also supported the Nationalists in Spain, while France and of course the USSR supported the Communists, with Britain struggling to remain neutral but overall favoring support for the Communists. Fighters poured into Spain on the Communist side into the “International Brigades,” including from the U.S., France, Britain and elsewhere. George Orwell was one, embedded in a Trotskyite unit. Very few international fighters joined the Nationalist troops, even from Germany and Italy. To this extent the Spanish Civil War was a proxy war. It could even be considered the true beginning of World War II.
It was Stalin’s strategy to incite the Western European nations to fight among themselves first, to weaken them for his massive invasion later. Hitler and Mussolini knew this, and so were cautious of over-committing in Spain, concerned that supplying troops directly would trigger a wider war with Britain and France. Britain and France were also cautious and in the main only supplied indirect aid. This prolonged the war and increased attrition. By 1939 the Nationalists under General Franco had won, but while Western Europe was not weakened by a wider war as Stalin had intended, Spain was. The devastation in Spain was ruinous including financially, and Franco set about attempting to restore the nation and people while dealing firmly with the still-resistant Communist element—as Hitler had done in Germany in 1933.
Then war broke out between Poland and Germany, but was complete in a victory by Germany within six weeks. This need not lead to a wider European war either, but machinations among the British especially Foreign Minister Edmund Halifax under the influence of Jewish bankers such as the Rothschilds, Jewish Communists in the FDR administration such as Henry Morgenthau Jr. and Harry Dexter White (Weiss) in the Treasury Department, and Communist elements in France had been encouraging and inciting the Poles, especially Foreign Minister Joseph Beck, to reject Hitler’s peace and alliance proposals, mainly with a promise of military support should Germany “invade” Poland. Hitler was finally forced to enter Poland to rescue the Volksdeutschen, the German citizens forced to live in areas of Germany given to Poland also by the Treaty of Versailles. See The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed by David L. Hoggan for a complete understanding of the German-Polish War, and how and why it really started.
Britain and France betrayed their agreement with Poland by delaying an assault on Germany until the summer of 1940. Aware through German intelligence that a 2.4 million man army of British and French soldiers were preparing to march through Belgium to attack Germany, Hitler ordered a pre-emptive strike first on May 10th. The success of the Wehrmacht again in only about six weeks stunned the French with its blitzkrieg tactics, but the war with Britain expanded in earnest and continued for years.
By June 22, 1941, Stalin, deciding that the war in the West had exhausted Britain, Germany and France sufficiently, was preparing to launch the massive invasion of Europe, starting with Germany, using the immense force of the fully equipped modernized firepower of the Red Army. Again Hitler struck first on that date, disrupting the invasion plans and striking an enemy prepared only for offense, not defense. The Germans in formal alliance with Romania, Hungary, Vichy France, Italy and the Waffen SS (fighters from many other European nations) gained many immediate successes including capture of huge stockpiles of arms and supplies, many entire divisions of Red Army troops, and strategic territorial gains. Germany desperately needed resources as much as disrupting the invasion, and gained some at once while the USSR lost them.
The Communist Jews at the U.S. Treasury arranged the Lend/Lease Act to resupply the USSR, and that theater of war raged on for four more years. Eventually the attrition and strain wore down Germany and her allies, compounded by sabotage among German traitors, and by 1945 Soviet troops were looting and raping and slaughtering in Berlin.
What was the position of Spain during all this epic conflict between Nationalists and Communists throughout Europe? Franco and the Spanish Nationalists maintained a strict neutrality, or so they claimed and so it was believed. Hitler appealed to Franco for various assistance for his war effort against Communism, including closing the Straights of Gibraltar to British naval ships and U.S. merchant marine ships resupplying the Soviets. No doubt Hitler felt justified, since he had helped Franco in his Nationalist battle against Communists just a few years earlier. It was time for Franco to return the favor. Regrettably Franco did not comply, attempting to maintain an appearance of neutrality, claiming Spain was still recovering from its Civil War to risk entering into the wider European War at the time.
There was truth in this, but the situation was so urgent with the fate of Nationalism itself on the line, and Germany increasingly in desperate need, that Franco might have allowed some assistance. It is true that a division of Spanish soldiers called the Blue Division joined the war against the Soviets, but Spain’s trading partners at the time—which it crucially needed to placate—Britain and the U.S., disapproved and it strained their relations. Sentiment in Spain at the time was largely pro-German and National Socialist, but Franco was constrained somewhat from fully supporting Germany militarily, else risk severing of relations with urgently-needed trade partners. One exception was Argentina, which traded freely with Spain in mutual approval of German support, but it was not enough to continue the recovery of Spain.
Did Franco actually betray Hitler more than just by refusing to comply however? Did Franco even go so far as to support Germany’s and Hitler’s enemies?
In chapter XXX of the book Spain 1923 - 1948 Civil War + World War by Arthur Loveday, in defense of Spain when in 1947 it was being condemned from participation in the United Nations because it was Fascist, a quote is presented by Professor Carlton Hayes, U.S. Ambassador to Spain from 1942-45, from his book ‘‘Wartime Mission in Spain.’’ Let us carefully consider this account of Franco’s actual policies during World War II when Spain should have been supporting Hitler and Germany and the other European forces fighting against Communist aggression.
“From September, 1942, to June, 1943, while the Spanish Government was still ostensibly ''non-belligerent '' and hence technically ‘‘ unneutral,'' it not only placed no obstacle in the way of our landings and military operations in North Africa and Southern Italy but gave us significant facilities, such as de facto recognition of the French Committee of National Liberation at Algiers and of its official representatives in Spain; free transit through Spain of over 25,000 volunteers (chiefly French) for active service with our armed forces in North Africa; non-internment of several hundreds of our forced-landed military airmen and their evacuation through Gibraltar; immediate delivery to us, quite uncompromised, of secret equipment on forced-landed planes, and freedom and full opportunity to carry on economic warfare with the Axis on Spanish territory by means of pre-emptive buying of wolfram, mercury, fluospar, skins, woollen goods, etc., and blacklisting of Spanish firms doing business with the Axis.
“From July, 1943, to May, 1944, the Spanish Government shifted its declared position from '' non-belligerency” to ''neutrality,’’ and gradually increased the facilities it was according us to the detriment of the Axis. It not only curbed the discrimination against us in the Falangist-controlled press of the country, withdrew the Blue Division and Blue Air Squadron from the Eastern Front, and replaced pro-Axis with pro-Allied dip- lomatic representatives in countries of Europe and Latin America, but it permitted the commercial sale of American propaganda magazines, granted us control of all passenger traffic, by Spanish airplanes as well as by ships, between Spain and Spanish Morocco, and withheld recognition of Mussolini’s ''Social Republican'' Government in North Italy.
“Moreover, it speeded up the evacuation of Allied refugees and forced-landed airmen, arranged for the escape to Spain of a considerable number of Jews from Hungary, Germany, and the Low Countries, and tolerated, even to the point of abetting, the very important clandestine activities of our secret espionage services directed toward obtaining from across the Pyrenees invaluable military information about German troop movements and dispositions in France. Finally, as the result of a series of negotiations, pressed by us and vehemently opposed by Germany, Spain embargoed all exports of wolfram to the Axis from February to May and agreed to allow thereafter only token shipments (which stopped altogether after our landing in France in June, 1944). Simultaneously, the Spanish Government agreed to submit to arbitration the question of the internment of Italian warships which had been held for several months in the Balearic Islands, to close the German Consulate at Tangier, and to expel its staff and other Axis agents suspected of espionage or sabotage against us.”
Wow! Not only did Franco betray Hitler by failing to comply with Hitler’s requests for support, which previously Hitler had provided to Franco when he needed it, but Franco went further and fully supported Hitler’s enemies. This list of Spanish support for the Allies against the Axis made Spain at the time virtually a member of the Allies itself.
Germany faced many moments during the war where the cooperation of its allies in the Axis coalition was crucial to its survival. Japan’s failure to invade the USSR from the East at the same time the German forces invaded from the West was one. Italy’s failure to subdue the Communist uprising in Greece, requiring German assistance which delayed Operation Barbarossa, the pre-emptive strike into the USSR by crucial weeks, later catching the Germans under-prepared for the brutal winter of 1941, was another. Italian withholding of crucial war supplied from the German and Italian forces fighting in North Africa was a third. Even German traitors infiltrated into the German fighting forces in both Operation Barbarossa and on the French beaches resisting the US/British invasion on D-day, undermining the German war effort from within, could be considered betrayal by Germans themselves.
General Franco’s cooperation with Germany’s enemies during the war amounts to a particularly heinous betrayal, because Hitler had lent immediate and substantial assistance to Franco in his own war against Communists. Further, Spain was well-positioned to control the Straights of Gibraltar and thus all of naval operations in the Mediterranean from the West, which would have been a great assistance to Germany, freeing up its own naval forces including submarines to stop Lend/Lease shipments from the Jewish-controlled U.S. to the Soviets, and allowing easier delivery of supplies to Germany’s North Africa campaign led by Field Marshall Rommel.
Quite possibly, if Franco had committed Spain not even to a full-on military role on the Axis side, but only to a fully neutral stance that lent no assistance at all to Allied forces, Germany would have had a greater chance of victory. If Spain had done its utmost to join the Axis militarily, it is probable Germany could have triumphed. Then instead of this Neo-Communist Jew World Order hell-scape we suffer in today, we would be living in a beautiful, free, sane and solvent world of steady upliftment, civility and decency, law and order, harmony among the segregated but interactive races, and debt-free and inflation-free international finance. The 1000 Year Reich would be well along leading the nations toward the idyllic positive eugenic vision of its founder, the artist and statesman Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
Franco betrayed not just his former ally and supporter Hitler and Germany, but this vision of hope for the future. Many of the betrayals against Germany were due to their misconception of the nature of the war itself as a battle for the fate of humanity, and an under-estimation of the sadism and extremism of their Jewish-incited Allied enemies to utterly destroy and even obliterate the Axis nations. Hitler fully understood who he was dealing with and what was at stake, where most likely Franco did not. Franco learned some of his lesson after the war when Communists worked to sanction Spain and exclude it from the United Nations and other punishments for being “Fascist”. By then it was too late.
Today Spain suffers from one of the worst immigration disasters in Europe, and declining native Spaniard population. Many other woes beset Spain including debt to Jewish banksters and cultural decay. What might have been if Spain had remained true to Germany during World War II and the Axis had won against Jewish totalitarian Communism and Jewish totalitarian Capitalism? We must wonder at what point Franco felt remorse.
We know that in his last Political Testament, Hitler expressed outrage at the enemies who had forced Germany into war, “International Judaism.” Though not named, Franco was among the key betrayers of Germany which gave Jews victory over Germany, Spain and the world today.
I am a recent subscriber here after listening to you on Tim Kelly's podcast. I admire your courage to avoid the euphemisms and to name the Jews where necessary, while also not seeing a Jew behind every rock.
Would you be interested in writing an essay on the WW 2 camps? I now know about the swimming pools, orchestras, etc. and share that knowledge with others to help deprogram them. But, I am still not able to answer the questions: but what about the eugenics programs? Mengele, etc? Didn't horrible murders go on too? A good overview of what the camps were all about would be helpful. Thank you.
Welcome and thank you for your interest.
I feel that any time anyone is asking "But what about...?" questions, we have a convert. We must provide the answers, however.
I am not able to provide a full research essay on these questions, but I will write an overview soon. CODOH.com is an excellent site to research the answers to your questions. Itt is searchable and I found many hits for "Mengele" for instance.
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Thank you for your request and I will post something on the holocaust soon.