When the Nazis Were Interested in Franco Being a Jew

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National Socialist Germany was curious about the origins and character of Francisco Franco, the general who led the coup party in the Spanish Civil War and to whom Berlin was already providing invaluable military support. It was late 1936. So, when a Bolivian diplomat admirer of Adolf Hitler contacted the German authorities to point out that his Spanish ally would be “Jewish,” the anti-Semitic regime that would perpetrate the Holocaust took note…