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Civil War: Dagger allegedly belonging to Franco sold at auction for €35,000 | Historical Memory


The German auction house Andreas Thies held an auction on April 10 of 587 military objects ranging from soldiers’ helmets, flags and uniforms to medals and antique weapons. The cheapest, a semi-automatic pistol, sold for €50. The most expensive, which fetched €35,000, is described in the catalog as “a 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.”
The auction house claims that Count Ciano, the son-in-law of fascist leader Benito Mussolini, gave the dagger to Franco to congratulate him “on the occasion of the victory of the Spanish fascists and the allied regimes of Germany and Italy in the Spanish Civil War.” The support of Italians and Germans was decisive in the victory for the Spanish dictator and far more significant in terms of resources a ....

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