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This overlooks the importance of the Portuguese neutrality during WW2. If Spain had declared war, then Portugal would have joined with their old allies Great Britain. Salazar had decided that Portugal would stay neutral, and this would help the British by keeping Spain out of the war. He reasoned that this was more help than his country could provide. Spain could not afford an enemy neighbour.
ep! Gibraltar is not an island but a peninsula. And the Blue Division was made up out of volunteers. You have not touched the Wolframium issue either, an interesting one. And please remember Franco was not a fascist, but a National Catholic. Or more specifically, simply a "Francoist".
Hitler wanted Spain to enter the war, and traveled by train to meet with Franco. The latter presented a huge list of unreasonable demands. Hitler supposedly made a comment about preferring the dentist to dealing with Franco. To appease Germany a bit, the Blue Division was raised from volunteers and served on the eastern front.
A very well documented video. Nevertheless, there's a minor mistake at 9:30 : Tangier was not a French possession, and so, Franco has not captured it. The status of Tangier came from the Treaty of Algeciras (1904), signed by all the countries with colonial interests in Northern Africa in this time, i.e. : Spain, France, Italy, Austro-hungarian Empire, Prussian Empire, Russian Empire, Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, United Kingdom, The Ottoman Empire, U.S.A. and Morocco. The Treaty established the sovereignity and independence of Morocco with the sultan AbdelAziz, but under a half-colonial regime so-called "Protectorate". The country was divided in two areas, one under French control (East and South) and the West area under Spanish control. Tanger, surrounde by the Spanish area, rested as an International port under control of all the fourteen signatory countries, with a clause specifying that, in the case of a war between two of these countries, both of them would be left temporarily out of the administration. Then, at the beginning of the WW2, with Germany (including Austria) and Italy on one side, Russia, United Kingdom an France on the other, Belgium and the Netherlands occupied, Sweden without the will of being present, and Turkey under pressure by both sides, only USA, Spain, Morocco and Portugal were at the control. When the USA entered the war in 1941, only Spain has the resources to guarantee the existence of the International Area, since Sweden was not interested, Turkey don't wanted more pressure from both sides, Morocco was under French-Spanish rule and Portugal delegate it in Franco (Portugal, although Oliveira Salazar was more pro-allied, was also under a dictatorship). So, Franco took temprarily under control Tangier during this time, and ended the control at the end of the war. For all the rest, a fantastic work over an interesting and not very well-known subject.
As I understand it, the Spanish "Azul or Blue" Division was composed of volunteers from the Nationalist Faction which was inducted into the German Heer (Army). All officers & enlisted were from Spain. This division was sent to Russia where it fought Communist forces. When recruited by the Germans (with General Franco's permission), there were apparently more volunteers than authorized spaces to be filled.
No, actually they suffered for their Axis aligned Neutrality/non-belligerence, Spain was generally ostracized by the International community post war because of it as they had no access to Marshall Plan aid like most other European nations did. There is also the fact that they were a de facto Right Wing Dictatorial Imperial Power and that the world at large had spent the best part of the past six years fighting against that very system of Government. It was only once Franco was gone and the Monarchy restored that Spain was able to fully join the International Community. Which is also what lead the Spanish and Portugese economies to be largely stunted and not as well developed as their European counterparts in the 70's-80's-90's
@@marcofava "There is also the fact that they were a de facto Right Wing Dictatorial Imperial Power and that the world at large had spent the best part of the past six years fighting against that very system of Government." True, but you've got to love the irony that the first thing the Great British People did on the defeat of National Socialism was give Churchill the boot in favour of Socialists' Nationalisation plans - and in the middle of the Potsdam Conference while still at war with Japan!
@@nemo6686 I mean the British populace and electorate were probably tired of war and it's austerity, Churchill was and had always been a war monger, Attlee on the other hand was a pacifist that chose war because it was necessary to protect his country, and as soon as the direct threat to the Home islands was gone he went back to being a moderate socialist, and that the United Kingdom did not just flat out collapse post was him and his clever usage of Marshall plan funds and money
@@marcofavaBritain didn’t receive any funds from the Marshall Plan. In fact, the USA called in its loans to Britain on the very day that war ended & thus screwed British recovery for decades.
Once again you are wrong about political parties. Spanish Republican party was and is right wing conservatives.. Left is fascist/ and socialist just like the National Socialist party of NAZI GERMANY. The Conservative Republican Party (Partido Republicano Conservador, PRC) was a Spanish political party created in January 1932 by Miguel Maura after breaking with one of the new Republic's main conservative parties, the Liberal Republican Right. It disappeared when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936.
germany invaded poland in 1939 not 1945 at least in my history books and the local senataff has this on it ww2 1939- 1945 the civil war in spain ended 1939 acording to a memorial in my towns park
@@royasturias1784 yes by a force of british royal marines and their dutch counterparts thats how the royal marines have gibroltar on their flag and badge with loral leaves
I didn't see any mention of the Spanish navy being asked by Berlin to send vessels into the Eastern Atlantic to search for survivors from the Bismarck. This they did sending the cruiser Canaris but without success
The distance was just too long and the weather too bad, 'Canarias' only managed to recover two corpses, both on the morning of May 30th (Musikgefreiter Walter Grasczack and Marinesignalgast Heinrich Neuschwand).
The Spanish Armada was never 'finally beaten' by Queen Elizabeth I in 1588, witness the humiliating defeat of the 'English Armada' that attempted to invade the Iberian Peninsula in 1589. Furthermore, Spain had no 'aircraft carriers' in the inter-war period. Etc
You are almost completely right. Only one correction: they had a seaplane carrier called "Daedalus". After WW2 they had another one with the same name.
@@blackjack5324 the Dédalo you are referring to was a post-WW2 vessel, an Independence-class carrier built in the USA in the 1940s. The first Dédalo (who enterered service in 1922) was not an aircraft carrier but a seaplane tender. Aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders are very different types of aviation ships
If you’re referring to the Armada of 1588 it was by no means completely destroyed either by the English or the weather. Well over half returned to Spain whilst the overall naval capacity remained almost undiminished, even if, perhaps, somewhat more cautious. The Armada was a disaster but it wasn’t an annihilation.
