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Say Franco enters the war on Hitler's side in 1940, and thus seals his regime's fate when Anglo-American troops start pouring into North Africa.

What would have been the most likely date for the Allies to invade? c.1943, in conjunction with the invasion of Sicily/Italy? 1945, after Germany and Italy are kaput?

How would Allied troops have been greeted? I think, considering massive swathes of the country had been staunchly supportive of the Republic just a few years ago, that the Allies would probably be greeted as liberators in big parts of Andalusia/Catalonia/Castile, but would probably have to fight groups of Falangist and Legionary die-hards, and would find it especially hard going in areas of the country like Old Castile and Navarre.

And of course, if this invasion came before 1944, German troops would have flooded in from France and quickly taken things out of Franco's hands (maybe installed a puppet regime under some hard-line Falangist a la the RSI, if Franco folded quick).

Thoughts?
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