Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,3 (2005) 70-83
Keywords:
Franco, Francisco,
;
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
Surveys Spain's position vis-à-vis the Jews and the Holocaust. Some historians note that 20-35,000, perhaps even as many as 70,000, Jewish refugees entered and travelled through Spain, and ca. 5,000 Jews in occupied Europe received protection from Spanish officials. Despite this, Spain must be regarded more as a quasi-perpetrator of the Nazi genocide than as a rescuer. Spain, as well as Portugal, engaged in trade with Germany, ensuring that the German war industry was not threatened with shortages. Analyzes Franco's policies and his motivations. Although Spain maintained a token neutrality throughout the war, Franco hoped for an Axis victory; 47,000 Spanish "volunteer" troops fought on Germany's eastern front. Although this corps did not take part in the genocide, Franco's sympathy for the Nazi regime and his economic assistance to Germany helped protract the war and thus prolong the ability of the Nazi regime to pursue its exterminationist policy.
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