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Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II 9780300150216
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
PART I. From Civil War to World War
Chapter 1. The Spanish Civil War
Chapter 2. Hitler’s Strategy in the Civil War
Chapter 3. Military and International Significance of the Civil War
Chapter 4. A Tilted Neutrality
PART II. ‘‘Nonbelligerence’’
Chapter 5. Franco’s Temptation
Chapter 6. The Meeting at Hendaye and Its Aftermath
Chapter 7. The Zenith of Collaboration
Chapter 8. Temptation Continues
Chapter 9. The Blue Division
Chapter 10. Temptation Abates
Chapter 11. Temptation Ends
PART III. The Struggle to Escape the ‘‘Axis Stigma’’
Chapter 12. Spanish Diplomacy and the Holocaust (I)
Chapter 13. Spanish Diplomacy and the Holocaust (II)
Chapter 14. Neutrality by Compulsion
Chapter 15. The End of the Relationship
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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FRANCO AN D H ITLER
Franco and Hitler Spain, Germany, and World War II Stanley G. Payne
Yale University Press New Haven & London
To the memory of
Javier Tusell (1945–2005)
Yale University Press wishes to thank Stanley Goldstein for first suggesting that the Press publish a book on Franco and Hitler. Copyright ∫ 2008 by Stanley G. Payne. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, i
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Francisco Franco
Dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975
For other uses, see Francisco Franco (disambiguation).
Francisco Franco Bahamonde[f][g] (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo. This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain or as the Francoist dictatorship.
Born in Ferrol, Galicia, into an upper-class military family, Franco served in the Spanish Army as a cadet in the Toledo Infantry Academy from 1907 to 1910. While serving in Morocco, he rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general in 1926 at age 33. Two years later, Franco became the director of the General Military Academy in Zaragoza. As a conservative and monarchist, Franco regretted the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the Second Republic in 1931, and was devastated by the closing of his academy; nevertheless, he continued his service in the Republican Army. His career was boosted after the right-wing
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Franco and Hitler: Spain, Frg, and Sphere War II
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