More powerful country in 1941: Nazi Germany or Francoist Spain?

More powerful in 1941?

  • Germany

    Votes: 46 93.9%
  • Spain

    Votes: 3 6.1%

  • Total voters
    49
Which country was more powerful overall (military, economics combined) in 1941: Nazi Germany or Spain? Would Franco entering the war have made a difference to Hitler's chances of success?
 
Spain had much less population, far, far less industry, and had recently gone through a ruinous civil war. Spain bought its tanks and aircraft and artillery FROM Germany.
 
Spain would have made a difference, like having a second Italy (only poorer with a war ravished economy and war weary population)!
 

Ramontxo

Donor
Errrr is this a serious cuestión? I mean whatever way you see it Nazi Germany was bigger, richer, strongest and far more dangerous for Humankind than Spain will ever be (and I am a Basque Nationalist)
 
Ask the same question again, and set the year to five years later, and the poll voting might be more interesting and competitive.
 
Spain by far.

1: Survival of the fittest. Franco’s Spain survived the war while Hitler’s Germany was wiped out. This proves that Germany was weaker.

2: Germany wanted Gibraltar to push Britain off the continent but chose not to invade Spain as they did Yugoslavia and Greece to remove Britain. So clear sign that the Germans were afraid.

3: Hitler didn’t like Franco and even thought the Republican forces might be useful, but did nothing. More proof that they feared Spain’s military prowess.

4: Germany wanted a half a continent of living space and failed to acquire it. Spain already one and half continents of living space before and has a half a billion Spanish speakers running around while German is now just a regional language.

5: Spain was a Super Power the sun never set on, Germany failed to get its special place under the sun.

6: Spain got away with the Inquisition while the Holocaust backfired on Germany.

7: Franco got his Monarch while Hitler did not get his living space.

8: Nazi Germany never developed Super Weapons. Franco’s Spain eventually 1970s weapons that Germany could have won WWII with but didn’t.


I’m sure there is more proof, but obviously Spain is far stronger.
 
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