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To: mac_truck

I guess you skipped WWII in history class. That map is very inaccurate. When did Hitler invade Spain and Portugal? Who knows so little about WWII to include Cyprus as a German territory?


11 posted on 08/25/2022 7:55:20 PM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Renfrew

It’s probably assuming Franco would be a part of the Nazi orbit, like Italy.


55 posted on 08/26/2022 5:44:39 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: Renfrew
I guess you skipped WWII in history class. That map is very inaccurate. When did Hitler invade Spain and Portugal? Who knows so little about WWII to include Cyprus as a German territory?

You skipped history classes too.   Spain and Portugal were led by fascist dictators even though they professed neutrality.   Franco accepted Germany's assistance in the Spanish Civil War and Portugal's Salazar supported Franco.

But even though Salazar claimed neutrality, in July 1940 he allowed 2,500 British evacuees from Gibraltar to be shipped to Madeira island.   Then later he allowed Brittan to use Lajes Field, Azores (Portuguese Air Base No. 4) to stage air cover for Allied shipping convoys.

Churchill recognized Salazar for his support:

... many MPs had not known that Portugal and England had the oldest operational alliance in the world, the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373. Churchill ended his speech saying:

I take this opportunity of placing on record the appreciation by His Majesty's Government, which I have no doubt is shared by Parliament and the British nation, of the attitude of the Portuguese Government, whose loyalty to their British Ally never wavered in the darkest hours of the war. [8]

In spite of all that, Spain and Portugal did not fight against Hitler and their Fascist governments lasted decades after WWII.

So, I say, flip a coin on that map thingy.

77 posted on 08/26/2022 11:31:35 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Renfrew

...or Great Britain in the EU?


92 posted on 08/27/2022 2:41:58 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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