We prepared a slide to describe the effects of WWII on Spain as a part of our Erasmus+ Project.

1. Spain
in the
World
War ll

2. Foreign Policy
In 1939, the Spanish Civil War ended and Francisco
Franco became the new head of the country
Half year later, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland and that
produced the outbreak of the Second World War
Franco had 3 options:
-Be enemy of Germany and Italy
- Be enemy of UK or France
- Be neutral

3. Franco's decision
Franco decided not to participate in the Second
World War because:
-Spain had just finished the Spanish Civil War
and it couldn’t enter another war besides it
was ruined
-There were 1 million of deads
-Spanish people were tired of the war

4. The Blue Division was a unit of
Spanish volunteers that served in
the German Army on the Eastern
Front of the Second World War.
Although Spanish dictator
Francisco Franco did not officially
bring Spain into World War II, he
permitted volunteers to join the
German Army on the condition
they would only fight against the
Soviet Union on the Eastern Front,
and not against the Western Allies
The Blue Division

5. Nueve
After their defeat in the Spanish Civil War,a lot of
Republicans were exile to France; the French Republic
interned them in refugee camps, such as Camp Gurs in
southern France. To improve their conditions, many joined
the French Foreign Legion at the start of World War II,
making up a sizeable proportion of it. They were called "The
Nueve"

6. After the war, Franco's regime was hospitable to
officials, members and collaborators of the Third
Reich, who sought refuge in Spain, and in particular
some of those responsible for the deportation and
extermination of the Jews.
The State of Spain gave asylum to a lot of several
criminals and some of them even got the spanish
nationality.
"Refugees"

7. Consequences
After the victory of the Allies, the winners
considered Spain as part of the fascist and Nazi
governments
In 1946, the phenomenon known as isolationism
occurred, to not have contact with other countries
or their assets, which only increased the impact of
the postwar period in Spain, from which the
country did not recover until the 50s, when the
western powers needed the Spanish bases during
the Cold War