Ramón Serrano Suñer

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Ramón Serrano Suñer (12 September 1901 – 1 September 2003) was a Spanish politician during the first stages of Francoist Spain, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the FET y de las JONS caucus (1936), and then Interior Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. A neofalangist originally from the CEDA, Serrano Suñer came to embody the most totalitarian impetus within the regime. Serrano Suñer was known for his pro-Nazi stance during World War II, when he and Franco unsuccessfully pushed for Spain to join the Axis powers and subsequently supported the sending of the Blue Division to fight along with the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. He was also the brother-in-law of Francisco Franco's wife Carmen Polo, for which he was informally nicknamed Cuñadísimo or the "most brother-in-law" (in comparison, the dictator himself was styled as generalísimo). Serrano Suñer was the founder of the 67,000-strong Spanish blind people's organization ONCE on 13 December 1938, as well as...

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