Lisbon and WWII: Spies, Gold and Diplomacy on SBS – Portugal managed to get through all of World War II without firing a single shot.
Caught between the Axis and the Allies, Antonio Salazar, the country’s strongman, used every trick in the book to get his country through unscathed.
In this war of nerves in which anything went, the Portuguese dictator took brilliant advantage of the only weapon available to maintain his country’s independence: neutrality.
Lisbon and WWII: Spies, Gold and Diplomacy on SBS and SBS on Demand – Premiere / Wednesday 17 March, 2024 at 5.30pm
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