El espionaje Alemán en España a través del consorcio empresarial SOFINDUS

Abstract

SOFINDUS was a conglomerate business of German capital that virtually monopolized the economic relations between Spain and Germany during the Second War World. No company over that period took so much power, nor had as privileged access to the leaders of both countries. Money, politics and espionage shook hands on the random trajectory of a company born at the beginning of the Civil war and the incipient collaboration between Hitler and Franco. The structure of these companies, their commercial interests, the flows of capital that they managed and their relationship with the Franco’s regime have been examined yet; but this article focuses on a really little-known subject: the role played by SOFINDUS as a smokescreen to cover secret activities developed by intelligence.

Keywords

• German industry
• Gestapo
• intelligence operations
• Second World War
• SOFINDUS
• empresa alemana
• operaciones de inteligencia
• Segunda Guerra Mundial
• industria tedesca
• operazioni di intelligence
• Seconda guerra mondiale
• SOFINDUS