Marie Claude
First: After a number of bloody rebellions and of being caught aiding the Turks or the Barbary pirates the conversos from the Muslim line were expelled from Spain, that is why present Spaniards have less Berber or Arab DNA than Jewish one.
Second: Given that del Pulgar was employed by Ferdinand as official chronicler I would that his employer that is Ferdinand would from time to time check at what he was writing, don’t you think? Del Pulgar seems to have died in 1492 that is he never knew of America being discovered (Colombus returned in March 1493). For Thomas de Torquemada he was 72 years old in 1492 and he, of course, never crossed the ocean. Also you should read Diaz del Castillo’s, that is a companion pof Cortez, Conquest of Mexico” he says: “Only voluntary conversions are valid” (Sorry if I break your heart again). Now this was nice but Conquistador tolerance did not extend to things like cannibalism or to religions who had 80,000 people sacrificed in two days for a single major festival.
Third: About the French in the SS, you got on my nerves when you said Division Azul was SS, sorry. I remember about the people of the SS Charlelmagne division but the people I was thinking about were those of the LVF and I don’t remeber if they were SS or Wehrmacht. Those you mention seem to be the Magre Nous, that is Alsatians that the Nazis considered Germans and as such subject to draft like any other Germans.
Also, at one point Dision Azul was disbanded into a much smaller unit the Spanish Legion (still part of the Wehrmacht), still later it was disbanded and Franco banned Spanish nationals of serving in foreign armies or lose thir nationality. A few disobeyed the order and two spanish SS companies (100 to 200 men each) were formed. These were the only ones who served in the SS
Fourth; About Juan Carlos. There are a number of conspiracy theories pointing that he could have known about or even inspired the coup. Anyway Milans del Bosc (coup’s highest ranking general was a the former commander of King’s own military establishment and he wasn’t a Franquist but a staunch monarchist.
