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Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain.

By: Messenger, David AMaterial type: TextTextSeries: eBooks on DemandPublisher: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (233 p.)ISBN: 9780807155646Subject(s): Allied Powers (1919- ) | Denazification -- Spain -- History | Fugitives from justice -- Spain -- History -- 20th century | Germans -- Spain -- History -- 20th century | Germany -- Relations -- Spain | National security -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | Nazis -- Spain -- History | Repatriation -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | Spain -- History -- 1939-1975 | Spain -- Relations -- GermanyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hunting Nazis in Franco's SpainDDC classification: 946.082 LOC classification: DP270 .M47 2014Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
Contents:
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; 1. Denazification, Neutrality, and European Security after World War II; 2. Intelligence Wars: Nazi and Allied Spies in Neutral Spain during and after the War; 3. Neutrality, Postwar Politics, and the Diplomacy of Repatriation; 4. Petitions to Franco: German Activism and the Fight to Stay in Spain; 5. The Fate of Repatriation in Germany, Spain, and Beyond, 1947-1948; Conclusion; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Summary: In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated Germany. The decidedly pro-German dictatorship of General Francisco Franco gave them refuge and welcomed other officials and agents from the Third Reich who had escaped and made their way to Iberia. Amid fears of a revival of the Third Reich, Allied intelligence and diplomatic officers developed a repatriation program across Europe to remove these individuals and return them to Germany where occupation authorities could further investigate them. Yet, due to Spain's longstanding ideological alliance with Hitler, German infiltration of the Spanish economy and society was extensive, and the Allies could count on minimal Spanish cooperation in this effort.In Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain, David Messenger deftly traces the development and execution of the Allied repatriation scheme, providing an analysis of Allied, Spanish, and expatriated Germans' responses. Messenger shows that by April 1946, British and American embassy staff in Madrid had compiled a census of the roughly 10,000 Germans then residing in Spain and had drawn up three lists of 1,677 men and women targeted for repatriation to occupied Germany. While the Spanish government did round up and turn over some Germans to the Allies, many of them were intentionally overlooked in the process. By mid-1947, Franco's regime had forced only 265 people to leave Spain; most Germans managed to evade repatriation by moving from Spain to Argentina or by solidifying their ties to the Franco regime and Span-ish life. By 1948, the program was effectively over.Drawing on records in American, British, and Spanish archives, this first book-length study in English of the repatriation program tells the story of this dramatic chapter in the history of post--World War II Europe.
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; 1. Denazification, Neutrality, and European Security after World War II; 2. Intelligence Wars: Nazi and Allied Spies in Neutral Spain during and after the War; 3. Neutrality, Postwar Politics, and the Diplomacy of Repatriation; 4. Petitions to Franco: German Activism and the Fight to Stay in Spain; 5. The Fate of Repatriation in Germany, Spain, and Beyond, 1947-1948; Conclusion; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated Germany. The decidedly pro-German dictatorship of General Francisco Franco gave them refuge and welcomed other officials and agents from the Third Reich who had escaped and made their way to Iberia. Amid fears of a revival of the Third Reich, Allied intelligence and diplomatic officers developed a repatriation program across Europe to remove these individuals and return them to Germany where occupation authorities could further investigate them. Yet, due to Spain's longstanding ideological alliance with Hitler, German infiltration of the Spanish economy and society was extensive, and the Allies could count on minimal Spanish cooperation in this effort.In Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain, David Messenger deftly traces the development and execution of the Allied repatriation scheme, providing an analysis of Allied, Spanish, and expatriated Germans' responses. Messenger shows that by April 1946, British and American embassy staff in Madrid had compiled a census of the roughly 10,000 Germans then residing in Spain and had drawn up three lists of 1,677 men and women targeted for repatriation to occupied Germany. While the Spanish government did round up and turn over some Germans to the Allies, many of them were intentionally overlooked in the process. By mid-1947, Franco's regime had forced only 265 people to leave Spain; most Germans managed to evade repatriation by moving from Spain to Argentina or by solidifying their ties to the Franco regime and Span-ish life. By 1948, the program was effectively over.Drawing on records in American, British, and Spanish archives, this first book-length study in English of the repatriation program tells the story of this dramatic chapter in the history of post--World War II Europe.

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Allied military intelligence referred to German diplomats and intelligence agents working in neutral countries as "obnoxious Nazis" and feared that from these safe havens the agents could serve as the nucleus of a resurgent fascist movement. -Messenger (history/global studies, Univ. of Wyoming) focuses on Spain, and his concentration is particularly fascinating as former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's regime remained unrepentantly fascist even after 1945. Allied intelligence code-named the potential resistance to the denazification policy "werewolf," and while elements of Nazi resurgence were later overshadowed by the developing Cold War, they were nonetheless a real concern in 1945 through 1947. Unlike Nazis living under Allied occupation, who often tried to downplay their party past, those in Spain occasionally flaunted their credentials in order to convince the fascist government to protect them, or to at least help them flee to Latin America. -VERDICT By centering his work on Spain, Messenger provides a new dimension to our understanding of the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. His analysis of Anglo-American policy toward Spain, the activities of Franco's government (which often obfuscated in the face of Allied demands), and the actions of the Nazis themselves should interest those who wish to learn more about the politics of the postwar world.-Frederic Krome, Univ. of -Cincinnati Clermont Coll. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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DAVID A. MESSENGER, associate professor of history and global & area studies at the University of Wyoming, is the author of "L'Espagne R#65533;publicaine": French Policy and Spanish Republicanism in Liberated France and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with the Franco regime's international stance from the civil war through the Cold War.

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