Word: stohrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eberhard von Stohrer, German ambassador at Madrid, reported that Franco's price was Gibraltar, French Morocco and the Oran section of Algeria, plus military and economic assistance...
...relief fund. Italian Ambassador Francesco Lequio gave 10,000 pesetas in the name of Benito Mussolini, "always a friend of Spain." U. S. Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell's wife gave 10,000 pesetas, Rumania's onetime King Carol 3,000, German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer a "generous contribution." British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare announced that two ships laden with grain for Britain would be diverted to Santander. Everybody wanted to do something neighborly for politically strategic Spain...
...Stohrer had an even better idea, which came to him from Berlin. He called on Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer and offered the services of German Army units stationed in occupied France. Don Ramón accepted gratefully. German officers hurried to Santander by train and a motorized column rumbled across the bridge at Hendaye. With the column were 500 technicians, engineering and hospital equipment, enough field kitchens to feed 30,000 persons...
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