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Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler with Karl Wolff at one Meeting with Franco in Spain, October 25, 1940. Franco unquestionably had sympathy for the regimes in Italy and Germany, but in practice, the solidarity with his alleged ideological allies was limited.
Himmler in San Sebastián with José Finat and Gerardo Caballero Olabézar [].. The visit of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler to Spain in October 1940 had a major propaganda component for the Francoist regime, which at that time was invested in a diplomatic rapprochement with Nazi Germany with the anticipation of Spain's entry into World War II in support of the Axis powers.
Germany and the United Kingdom have had diplomatic relations since German unification in 1871. [1] Prior to that, the only German states holding diplomatic relations with the U.K. were the Kingdom of Prussia, since 1835, and the three Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, since 1853.
In the years following the Spanish Civil War, Hitler gave several possible motives for German involvement. Among these were the distraction it provided from German re-militarisation; the prevention of the spread of communism to Western Europe; the creation of a state friendly to Germany to disrupt Britain and France; and the possibilities for economic expansion. [3]
Heinrich Rüdt von Collenberg (1933–1941) Monaco. Walter Hellenthal (1943–1944) Netherlands. Julius von Zech-Burkersroda (1928–1940) Otto Bene (1940–1945) Consul General in Batavia. Manfred Klaiber (1938) Nicaragua. Hugo Otto Danckers (1936–1941) Norway. Heinrich Rohland (1934–1936) Heinrich Sahm (1936–1939) Curt Bräuer (1939 ...
Canaris declared that without 380 mm (15 in) heavy assault cannon, which he knew were unavailable, Gibraltar could not be taken. When he reported to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Canaris gave his opinion that even if Germany were able, with the co-operation of Spain, to seize Gibraltar, the British would land in Morocco and French West Africa. [4]
Spain had close ties with Nazi Germany since it gave aid both militarily and financially in the Spanish Civil War that occurred four years before World War II that installed Francisco Franco as autocrat of Spain. [30] Germany facilitated this rise of Franco due to its lust for Spanish economic institutions and mineral mines, which would be ...
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was born the son of a wealthy district court judge in Darmstadt on 13 May 1900. [2] During World War I he graduated from school in 1917, volunteered to join the Imperial German Army (Leibgarde-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 115) and served on the Western Front. [3]