![]() | Hitler''s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War Subjects: Spain -- History -- Civil War 1936–1939 -- Economic aspects; Spain -- History -- Civil War 1936–1939 -- Finance; Spain -- History -- Civil War 1936–1939 -- Participation German; Spain -- Foreign economic relations -- Germany; Germany -- Foreign econom; Pitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco's Nationalists prevailed with German and Italian military assistance--a clear instance, it seemed, of like-minded regimes joining forces in the fight against global Bolshevism. In Hitler's Shadow Empire Pierpaolo Barbieri revises this standard account of Axis intervention in the Spanish Civil War, arguing that economic ambitions--not ideology--drove Hitler's Iberian intervention. The Nazis hoped to establish an economic empire in Europe, and in Spain they tested the tactics intended for future subject territories. Barbieri Pierpaolo : Pierpaolo Barbieri is executive director at Greenmantle and special advisor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Berggruen Institute on Governance. |
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