Pedro Gamero del Castillo [SEP] place of death
Pedro Gamero del Castillo
Pedro Gamero del Castillo (20 November 1910, in Seville – 9 December 1984, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician and figure in the Spanish Civil War.
Early years.
Gamero first entered politics whilst attending the University of Seville where he was leader of the student movement. Initially a member of the monarchist "Acción Española" he joined the Falange in July 1936 and was soon appointed Civil Governor of Seville. He was involved in talks with Carlists leaders in Lisbon in 1937 over merging
Spain to remain a nonbelligerent during World War II. Serrano Suñer's protege Pedro Gamero del Castillo consulted in January 1941 with Hans Lazar, the press secretary of the German Embassy and told him that a Serrano Suñer government would commit to the Axis powers and thus asked for him to arrange for the Nazis to publicly back his mentor. However it is unclear whether Gamero was working on his own initiative and Hitler was disappointed that Serrano Suñer had not tried harder to help Germany, and called him the "gravedigger of the new Spain