ABSTRACT
A book concerned with the nature and mechanics of collaboration between the Nazis and the Francoists could not have been written until the abundant and newly uncovered sources to which Wayne Bowen had access finally became available to scholars. With Franco's early successes in the war, the Falange's vague philosophy of government heavily influenced the new fascist government: it was Wilhelm Faupel, the Falange delegate to the Spanish embassy in Berlin, who was responsible for the German dispatch to Spain of the Condor Legion. The Nazis were fairly successful in convincing the Falange and, to a degree, Franco, that a new order must evolve in Western Europe, one opposed to the barbaric Soviet slavs; an order that would revive the glories of the "Romano-Germanic imperial unity". With the end of the civil war in 1939, nevertheless, Franco was indebted to Germany and German arms for assisting in his victory.
