1st Edition
Working for Nazi Germany Salvador Merino and Spanish Labor in the Third Reich
By Wayne H. Bowen
Copyright 2026
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the leadership of Gerardo Salvador Merino, the chief director of the Sindicatos, fascist-controlled unions under the Franco Regime, and his plan to send 100,000 volunteer Spanish workers to Nazi Germany.
Despite a degree of charisma and organizational effectiveness, the ambitions of Salvador Merino failed to transform Spain or lift the working classes, and his career ended... Read more
Introduction
1. Spanish Labor during the Republic and Civil War
2. Early Career and Wartime Experience of Gerardo Salvador Merino
3. The Formation of the Sindicatos
4. The Sindicatos within the Franco Regime
5. Salvador Merino and Nazi Germany
6. Freemasonry and the Fall of Salvador Merino
7. Spanish Workers in Germany, 1941–1942
8. Spanish Republicans in Germany
9. Spanish Workers in Germany, 1943–1945
Conclusion
Biography
Wayne H. Bowen is Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Spain and the Protestant Reformation (2023), Truman, Franco’s Spain, and the Cold War (2017), Spain during World War II (2006), and Spaniards and Nazi Germany (2000).
