Meeting at Hendaye

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The Meeting of Hendaye, or Interview of Hendaye, took place between Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler, then respectively Caudillo of Spain and Führer of Germany, on 23 October 1940 at the railway station in Hendaye, France, near the Spanish–French border. The meeting was also attended by the respective Spanish and German foreign ministers: Ramón Serrano Suñer of Francoist Spain and Joachim von Ribbentrop of Nazi Germany. The object of the meeting was an attempt to fix the terms for Spain to join the Axis Powers in their war against the British Empire. However, after seven hours of talks, the Spanish demands still appeared extortionate to Hitler—the cession of French Morocco and part of French Algeria alongside Gibraltar, the attachment of French Cameroon to the Spanish colony of Guinea, and large quantities of food, petrol and arms to relieve the critical economic and military situation faced by Spain after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Hitler did not wish to disturb his relations...

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