Abstract

Spain - a Nazi Colony

In its issue of September 22, 1940, the Deutsche Bergwerke Zeitung of Düsseldorf carried an article entitled The Basis of Spain's Economic Prosperity. Among other things this article said: "As the authoritarian powers consolidate their political rule in Europe, their influence on the economy of this continent will increase and economic liberalism will correspondingly decline. This tendency will particularly affect the character of the Spanish economy, which before the national revolution of July, 1936, was the object of systematic exploitation by the Western' democracies." Expanding this idea, it slid: "Germany is in an excellent position to contribute to the economic development of Spain, because the similarity of its political system to that of Spain excludes the suspicion of a sinister political motive.