 Combined with wartime killings, this brings the death toll of the White Terror to between 100,000 and 200,000.In post-war Spain, Franco ruled with more power than any Spanish leader before or since and developed a cult of personality around his rule by founding the "Movimiento Nacional".During World War II he maintained Spanish neutrality but supported the Axis — whose members Italy and Germany had supported him during the Civil War — in various ways, damaging the country's international reputation.