"He paid no attention to Franco's military advice because he considered it cowardly, and because he preferred those of the Romanian with an Aryan-Teutonic racial appearance" (sic)."
— Francisco Franco

January 1, 1970

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Paul Schmidt interpreter of Hitler, on the Führer's "mania" of allowing himself to be advised on military matters (tactically and strategically) by Conducator Antonescu with whom he shared a passionate antipathy for Magyar people whom Hitler saw in part to blame for the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Antonescu as a threat to Greater Latin Romania, and not because of "his good advice" that Franco gave him in the military field and arguing the danger of declaring war on England because it