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Article: Pilar Primo de Rivera and the axis temptation.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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DURING WORLD WAR II, Pilar Primo de Rivera, leader of the Seccion Femenina (Women's Section) of the Falangist party, led Spanish efforts to forge a closer political relationship with Nazi Germany. As the only woman holding a position of real power and influence within the Franco regime, she played a critical role in attempts by pro-Nazi Spaniards to bring Spain into the war on the side of the Axis. She was so identified with Nazi Germany that at one point prominent Spaniards proposed, in apparent seriousness, that she would make an excellent wife for Hitler. Despite this potential role, however, and her significant political achievements, historians on either side of the ...