The Hidden Battle

The story of the Spanish mineral that shaped the course of the Second World War

During the Second World War, the Allies threaten to attack Spain, an allegedly neutral country, if the Francoist regime keeps allowing Nazi Germany to extract Galician tungsten, a strategic mineral, paramount to the war effort.

2018

0h 53min

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