![]() ![]() Canaris’ honesty with Franco, among other things, got him executed on 9 April 1945.Īs for Franco, he “played both ends against the middle” right through the war with a cynicism that even impressed Tito. ![]() (NB We sank the IJN boat carrying the Schwalbe, but unfortunately the data on its engines got to Japan and were used to build locally-made duplicates.)Īt the same time, Franco was resisting all entreaties from Hitler to seize Gibraltar and close off the Med from the west, mainly because Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Hitler’s chief spook and a longtime friend of Franco’s was telling him Germany was going to lose. This was how both Germany and Japan maintained their submarine communication line of everything from rubber from the Dutch East Indies going to Germany, to a complete Me-262 jet fighter going to Japan, right through the war. And he used part of it, specifically naval bunker fuel, to refuel both German Type IX long-range u-boats and Japanese RO and I-class long-range submarines in the Canary Islands, which were and are Spanish territory. What happened was that we (the U.S.) supplied POL to Franco as part of bribing him to stay neutral. ![]()
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