Otto Skorzeny, el nazi más peligroso en la España de Franco

Commercial networks, dishonest diplomats, military conspirators, unprincipled secret agents, arms dealers, phil-Nazi journalists... all this forms the breeding ground that occurred in Spain after the defeat of the European fascisms. Did the Nazis plot their revival through clandestine cells outside of Germany? What role did Spain play in helping Nazi fugitives? Did your conspiracies have any chance of success? How did National Socialism evolve in our country? Is the legacy of these "refugees" still present? Journalist Francisco José Rodríguez de Gaspar has tried to answer these and many other questions in an investigation loaded with documentation that has SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny as the protagonist. The one called by the Americans as "the most dangerous man in Europe" lived quietly in Spain at the end of the Second World War. He was never claimed for his crimes and never regretted his past. An unredeemed Nazi until the end of his days, he took advantage of his fame as Hitler's chief of special commands and Benito Mussolini's liberator to do business from Madrid and participate in all kinds of intrigues. Creating a secret army of former Waffen-SS soldiers in Spain, baptized as the Carlos V Legion because of its Spanish-German past, or promoting a meeting of all the European extreme right parties in September 1951 in Toledo, were some of the the conspiracies involving a man who had no qualms about collaborating with the CIA and the Israeli Mossad. Pathological liar for some, calculating spy for others. The figure of Skorzeny is loaded with nuances that try to be clarified in this essay. A journey through Spain's recent bleak past that should not be forgotten.