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The German auction house Andreas Thies held an auction on April 10 of 587 military objects ranging from soldiersâ helmets, flags and uniforms to medals and antique weapons. The cheapest, a semi-automatic pistol, sold for â¬50. The most expensive, which fetched â¬35,000, is described in the catalog as âa museum piece of goldsmithing difficult to surpass and a unique historical relic from the history of Spanish and Italian fascism. A magnificent gift of a dagger from the Italian minister of foreign affairs, Count Ciano, to General Francisco Franco.â
The auction house claims that Count Ciano, the son-in-law of fascist leader Benito Mussolini, gave the dagger to Franco to congratulate him âon the occasion of the victory of the Spanish fascists and the allied regimes of Germany and Italy in the Spanish Civil War.â The support of Italians and Germans was decisive in the victory for the Spanish dictator and far more significant in terms of resources and men
Full article The statue, erected three years after Franco s death in 1978, commemorated his role as commander of the Spanish Legion in the Rif War
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco no longer guards the city gates of Melilla, a Spanish enclave and autonomous city on the northwest African coast. Without much fanfare, a group of workmen operated a mechanical digger and heavy drills to chip away at the brick platform on which the statue stood, lifted it off by a chain around its neck, and carted it away in bubble wrap on a pickup truck.
The statue, erected three years after Franco s death in 1978, commemorated his role as commander of the Spanish Legion in the Rif War, a conflict fought in the 1920s by Spain and France against the Berber tribes of the Rif mountainous region of Morocco.