And the tungsten went into the war
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Madrid, March 1943. The German Ambassador, Hans Adolf von Moltke, met with Demetrio Carceller, Franco’s Minister of Industry and Trade, and said: “For us, tungsten is as important to man as blood.”
Tungsten or tungsten was a strategic metal because it is the element with the highest melting point. During World War II, it was used for armor and hardening of projectiles. China was the world's leading producer, but since Germany's invasion of the USSR in 1941 transport from Asia to Europe had been suspended, and Europe had to resort to local exploitation by the Germans. Since 95% of the European tungsten was extracted in the Iberian Peninsula, it became mandatory for the Nazi arms industry to agree to supply it with the Franco government. And then the “conflict of the tungsten” between Spain and the United States broke out, the historian Joan Maria Thomas in The Battle of the Tungsten. Received in United States and Spain from Pearl Harbor to the Cold War (Cátedra, 2010).
The US government decided to impose an embargo on the sale of oil to Spain, and tension between the two countries increased. The United States imposed several conditions to lift the embargo: The release of American ships seized in Spanish waters, the punishment of soldiers fighting for Hitler... But the main condition was the suspension of tungsten exports to Germany.President
Roosevelt said: “The current Spanish regime is an abomination to the ideas of Americans about democracy and good governance.” The historian Carlton Hayes, at a similar time, said in a memoir: “Most Americans want Spain to become a democratic republic.” But
the basis of the conflict was economic, not ideological. And so, as the economic conditions were resolved, the opinion of the Americans also changed. As Hayes himself said a little later, “I recognize that Spain is essentially a democratic country, because democracy can have very diverse forms of expression.” The United States decided not to promote the end of the Franco dictatorship, among other things, in 1783 in Bergara, thanks to the chemical element isolated by the Elhuyar brothers. Or because of him.
Tungsten or tungsten was a strategic metal because it is the element with the highest melting point. During World War II, it was used for armor and hardening of projectiles. China was the world's leading producer, but since Germany's invasion of the USSR in 1941 transport from Asia to Europe had been suspended, and Europe had to resort to local exploitation by the Germans. Since 95% of the European tungsten was extracted in the Iberian Peninsula, it became mandatory for the Nazi arms industry to agree to supply it with the Franco government. And then the “conflict of the tungsten” between Spain and the United States broke out, the historian Joan Maria Thomas in The Battle of the Tungsten. Received in United States and Spain from Pearl Harbor to the Cold War (Cátedra, 2010).
The US government decided to impose an embargo on the sale of oil to Spain, and tension between the two countries increased. The United States imposed several conditions to lift the embargo: The release of American ships seized in Spanish waters, the punishment of soldiers fighting for Hitler... But the main condition was the suspension of tungsten exports to Germany.President
Roosevelt said: “The current Spanish regime is an abomination to the ideas of Americans about democracy and good governance.” The historian Carlton Hayes, at a similar time, said in a memoir: “Most Americans want Spain to become a democratic republic.” But
the basis of the conflict was economic, not ideological. And so, as the economic conditions were resolved, the opinion of the Americans also changed. As Hayes himself said a little later, “I recognize that Spain is essentially a democratic country, because democracy can have very diverse forms of expression.” The United States decided not to promote the end of the Franco dictatorship, among other things, in 1783 in Bergara, thanks to the chemical element isolated by the Elhuyar brothers. Or because of him.