Supply ships

tigone · 09-08-08, 04:35 PM

Spain was officially neutral, but was a fascist state under Franco. The government was strongly sympathetic to Germany, and largely ignored things like the German resupply ships, so long as they managed to be discrete. Remember that the Germans had actively supported Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War, providing both naval and Luftwaffe units in the fight.

You may recall the famous story of the "The Man Who Never Was," where a corpse, dressed as a British staff officer and carrying (phony) classified invasion plans was deposited off the Spanish coast at Huelva in an effort to mislead the Germans about Allied plans int he Mediterranean. The plan worked because the british knew that Spain was crawling with German spies, and that the papers would be in the hands of German intellengence within hours of the body washing ashore.

Oh, and Generalissimo Fransisco Franco is still dead.

09-08-08, 04:35 PM	#5
tigone Mate Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 56 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	Spain was officially neutral, but was a fascist state under Franco. The government was strongly sympathetic to Germany, and largely ignored things like the German resupply ships, so long as they managed to be discrete. Remember that the Germans had actively supported Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War, providing both naval and Luftwaffe units in the fight. You may recall the famous story of the "The Man Who Never Was," where a corpse, dressed as a British staff officer and carrying (phony) classified invasion plans was deposited off the Spanish coast at Huelva in an effort to mislead the Germans about Allied plans int he Mediterranean. The plan worked because the british knew that Spain was crawling with German spies, and that the papers would be in the hands of German intellengence within hours of the body washing ashore. Oh, and Generalissimo Fransisco Franco is still dead.