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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Francisco Franco

Hitler and Francisco Franco give the Nazi salute as they walk by German soldiers at the train station at Hendaye, France, October 23, 1940. (Public domain)
September 5, 2023, 5:22 am
How dictator Franco built his regime vilifying the Jews, then tried to hide it
In his new book ‘Architects of Terror,’ Sir Paul Preston shows how Spain’s ties to Nazi Germany and use of antisemitic propaganda belied its claims of sympathy for Jewish refugees
By JP O’ Malley
Heinrich Himmler, chief of Hitler's police, gives the Nazi salute at the Madrid Railway Station on arrival for his visit with Count Mayalde, Chief of Spanish Department of Security, Oct. 20, 1940. (AP)
December 15, 2022, 9:41 pm
Spain’s new memory law dredges up painful chapter of often-forgotten ties to Nazis
Legislation will create census, national DNA bank to help identify thousands of Spaniards killed during World War II
By Sara J. Brenneis
Relatives of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco arrive at the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum near El Escorial, outskirts of Madrid, Spain, October 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Naranjo, Pool)
October 24, 2019, 6:56 pm
Spain exhumes remains of dictator General Franco
Body taken from Madrid mausoleum to small family crypt after law prohibits ‘exaltation of dictator in a public place’; move opens old political wounds, angers Franco’s family
By Ciaran Giles
In this file photo taken on December 01, 2018 a woman wears a pin reading "Vox, now" during a demonstration called by the far-right party VOX against Catalan separatists in Madrid. (OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP)
December 3, 2018, 1:49 am
Far-right wins seats in Andalusia parliament in first for post-Franco Spain
Extreme Vox party beats expectations as Socialists lose power in southern region for first time in 36 years; elections seen as first test for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
By AFP
Soldiers belonging to the Blue Division, a unit of Spanish volunteers that served in the Nazi Army on the Eastern Front of World War II. (screen capture: YouTube)
November 7, 2015, 9:24 pm
Germany said to still pay pensions of Spain’s Nazi volunteers
Scandalized German MP says €100,000 in annual payments are part of 1962 deal for Spanish veterans who fought for Hitler on Eastern Front
By Tamar Pileggi
Spain clock (photo credit: Courtesy http://www.artesania-alla.es/)
September 26, 2013, 11:51 pm
Spain’s clocks still on Hitler time
Current arrangement dates back to the Franco regime’s synchronization with Nazi Germany
By AP
The Santa Maria de la Vid monastery in Burgos, Spain, sheltered Karl and Ruth Albrecht, refugees from Nazi Germany. (Marianne Perdomo/Creative Commons via JTA)
April 8, 2013, 6:01 am
Spaniard seeks refugee couple who hid in monastery
Santiago Arroyo hopes to find relatives of a German Jew and her Catholic husband, shielded together during Holocaust
By Hillel Kuttler
After leaving Hitler's Germany, Jewish photographer Gerda Taro snapped this image at the funeral of Bela Frankl, a Hungarian Jew who died in the Spanish civil war while serving under the name General Lukacs. (Courtesy of the International Center of Photography)
March 10, 2013, 4:07 pm
Photos fete Jewish fight against fascism
Lost for decades, influential images from the Spanish civil war reveal Jewish bravery on both sides of the camera
By Rebecca Benhamou
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