Meeting at Hendaye

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The Meeting of Hendaye, or interview of Hendaye took place between Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler (at the time, Caudillo of Spain and Führer of Germany respectively).

It occurred on October 23, 1940 in the local train station of Hendaye, near the Spanish-French border, attended by the Foreign Affairs ministers, Ramón Serrano Súñer of Spain) and Joachim von Ribbentrop of Nazi Germany.

The meeting marked the refusal of Spain to join the Axis powers, due to Hitler's lack of support for Franco's colonial claim to Moroccan territory, because of this regime was allied of French fascists of Vichy .