The Meeting of Hendaye, or interview of Hendaye took place between Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

 and Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 (at the time, Caudillo

Caudillo

Caudillo is a Spanish word for "leader" and usually describes a political-military leader at the head of an authoritarian power. The term translates into English as leader or chief, or more pejoratively as warlord, dictator or strongman. Caudillo was the term used to refer to the charismatic...

 of Spain

Spain

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 and Führer

Führer

Führer , alternatively spelled Fuehrer in both English and German when the umlaut is not available, is a German title meaning leader or guide now most associated with Adolf Hitler, who modelled it on Benito Mussolini's title il Duce, as well as with Georg von Schönerer, whose followers also...

 of Germany

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 respectively).

It occurred on October 23, 1940 in the local train station

Train station

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 of Hendaye

Hendaye

Hendaye is the most south-westerly town and commune in France, lying in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and located in the traditional province Lapurdi of the French Basque Country...

, near the Spanish-French border, attended by the Foreign Affairs ministers, Ramón Serrano Súñer

Ramón Serrano Súñer

Ramón Serrano Súñer , was a Spanish politician during the first stages of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, the Spanish State, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the Political Junta Política of Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS , and Interior and...

 of Spain and Joachim von Ribbentrop

Joachim von Ribbentrop

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 of Nazi Germany

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.

The meeting marked the refusal of Spain to join the Axis powers in their war against Britain, due to Hitler's lack of support for Franco's colonial claim to French Moroccan territory

French Morocco

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. At this time, Hitler did not wish to disturb his relations with the sympathetic Vichy French

Vichy France

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regime.