Tag Archives: Francoist Spain

The Nazis Who Fled to South America: Where, Who, and Why?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 October 2025

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General Franco’s Intentions in the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2021

Writing recently about the first meeting between Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco at Hendaye on 23 October 1940, where the Führer tried to enlist Spain into the Axis, I concluded, drawing on Franco: The Man and His Nation by George Hills, a former BBC journalist and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society:

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