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Axis War Plans Upset By Franco
German records reveal in 1943 Hitler and Mussolini discussed Franco’s defection and Spain’s pledge to defend Iberian crossings with all means if England and American land on the Iberian Peninsula. Goering detailed Gibraltar plans and a multi-front Axis strategy, halted by Hitler’s Russia focus.
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Muernburg
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Stalingrad
Tripoli
Francisco Franco
Gibraltar
Foreign Office
Thefuehrer
Caudido
Tibernian
Portugal
Pranco
Palazzo Venezia
Rome
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Duce
Franco
Fuehrer
Germany
Italy
Wilhelmstrasse
REICH
Spain
Iberian
Penninsula
Mediterranean
Atlantic
North
Africa
Mussolini
Tripolitania
Ribbentrop
Herman Goering
Goering
Big Rock
Red Sea
Morocco
Tunis
Marshal Graziani
Nile Valley
Suez Canal
Balkans
Greece
Dardanelles
Turkey
Suez
Russia