20 Mar 2024 11:34 am
He was already sentenced to death in Belgium or in Germany. He was a legit political refugee...and Franco is the only thing that saved him. Clearly franco had some respect for how much Germany had helped him and had some degree of honor. The fascists were basically the last politicians who still understood honor.Cannonpointer » 20 Mar 2024, 9:50 am » wrote: ↑ I did a deeper dive than that video. But I figured even the video was a deeper dive than most readers were willing to venture - lacking as they do intellectual curiosity about real history.
I was surprised the monarchy did not give the man up to belgium. Perhaps by then belgium considered him a hot potato and made no remonstrances with Juan Carlos.