It wasn't a criticism, I just thought that as a professional writer you would like everything you published to be as accurate as possible. There is another little slip, you referred to Franco as el presidente, he never was. A presidente has to be democratically elected and Franco never held general elections. As you pointed out, he was a military dictator and his title was "El Caudillo" which is "leader" in English and "fuhrer" in German.
Let’s not forget that Hitler supplied just enough arms to Franco to help keep the fascists going but not enough for them to win quickly. Hitler used the Spanish Civil War to test weapons and tactics for years before invading Poland.
Actually Franco provided 50,000 volunteers to fight for the Nazis as the Blue Division. Volunteers were forbidden by the Autumn of 1943, after the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk made it clear Germany had lost the war.
The reason Spain didn't enter the war was because it demanded all of French Morocco as payment, which would have upset the Vichy government in France.
If anything helped Franco's regime survive, it was the imbecility of President Eisenhower, who visited in 1953 and set up a military alliance. Some of the earliest sanctions imposed by the UN were against Franco's Spain, from 1946 to 1950.
🎶 Well, I’ve never been to Spain, but I kinda like the music 🎶 (apologies to Three Dog Night), but it’s on my bucket list. Enjoy! I’m loving your book.
I love your posts. I’m currently on a high speed train on the way to Madrid. Thanks for the education about the time zones, I didn’t know.
Which city are you coming from? We may have passed each other. Just arrived in Sevilla.
Makes me think of Arizona, somehow...
I always liked how Saturday Night Live reminded us in their "Weekend Updates" that "Francisco Franco is continuing his valiant effort to remain dead."
"It’s eight ours ahead of my home, but it should only be seven." =========="hours"
"I’m not a futebol maniac" ======================= "futbol" or "football"
Cut me some slack. The entire thing was typed on my phone. I left my computer at home on purpose.
It wasn't a criticism, I just thought that as a professional writer you would like everything you published to be as accurate as possible. There is another little slip, you referred to Franco as el presidente, he never was. A presidente has to be democratically elected and Franco never held general elections. As you pointed out, he was a military dictator and his title was "El Caudillo" which is "leader" in English and "fuhrer" in German.
Have a great time in Sevilla
Perhaps we did, we were going from Barcelona to Madrid. Arrived this afternoon. The trains are just terrific, aren’t they??
Being from the UK originally and having lived in Spain for a spell during my youth… I never realized how fucked up the time zones are.
"Facist time". Hmm... Europe was on Pope Gregory's time long before England parted with the Julian calendar. "Imperialist time" some might say.😉
Let’s not forget that Hitler supplied just enough arms to Franco to help keep the fascists going but not enough for them to win quickly. Hitler used the Spanish Civil War to test weapons and tactics for years before invading Poland.
Actually Franco provided 50,000 volunteers to fight for the Nazis as the Blue Division. Volunteers were forbidden by the Autumn of 1943, after the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk made it clear Germany had lost the war.
The reason Spain didn't enter the war was because it demanded all of French Morocco as payment, which would have upset the Vichy government in France.
If anything helped Franco's regime survive, it was the imbecility of President Eisenhower, who visited in 1953 and set up a military alliance. Some of the earliest sanctions imposed by the UN were against Franco's Spain, from 1946 to 1950.
🎶 Well, I’ve never been to Spain, but I kinda like the music 🎶 (apologies to Three Dog Night), but it’s on my bucket list. Enjoy! I’m loving your book.