Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Why was Spain Neutral in WW2?" video.

  1. Spain would STARVE without America during WWII. Yes, she was a major importer. So Franco dared not bite the hand he must kiss. Spain was getting its oil from the US, too. The United Nations did not want Franco to cross swords with Hitler. He was MUCH more valuable doing exactly what he was doing. BTW, was quite helpful for the United Nations. Our USAAF crewmen and pilots were getting out of harms way by entering Spain -- on foot. See Chuck Yeager, et. al. BTW, Franco was sucking German weapons out of the Eastern Front. Franco even got Hitler to ship him Mark IV tanks. These eventually went to Syria, the Golan, where the Israelis destroyed them with Sherman tanks. Cute. He got two HE-111s for personal transport. You can see them in the film Patton -- which was largely filmed in Spain. (Franco was quite the film buff.) BTW, his HE-111s were re-engined with Merlin engines -- irony alert. Any Gibraltar gambit would've taken a whole panzer corps -- OKH's calculation. Consequently, Barbarossa would've been imperiled. His artillery generals expected such an attack to take many weeks to pull off -- as Gibraltar was already engineered to bunker down for months on end. BTW, the Spanish rail net was nothing like that of France and Germany. The tyrant would have had to upgrade hundreds of miles of track so as to carry his heavy equipment to attack Gibraltar. Canaris had already told Franco that Germany was certain to lose WWII before Franco met Hitler. He laid out how totally impossible Nazi Germany's resource situation was.
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