blanco hitler and mussolini just some small factual stuff in the section spain after franco it is said that adm blanco was killed by a car bomb but he wasn't the eta had instead placed a bomb in a tunnel underneath the car and exploded it as blanco drove on the street above also in the section relationship with hitler and mussolini it says while franco ruled undemocratically he seems to have reluctantly accepted that spain would be a democracy after his death this isn't true at all the only reason franco worked with the western democracies was because spain was in dire need of the supplies they could provide for spain's weak economy and later on during the 's and 's it was because franco's advisors realized the need for spain to take place in the burgeoning international economy franco was a devout enemy of democracy and thought throughout his entire life that it would lead to anarchy or communism