He consulted in January 1941 with Hans Lazar, the press secretary of the German Embassy and told him that a Serrano Súñer government would commit to the Axis powers and thus asked for him to arrange for the Nazis to publicly back his mentor.
[7] In July 1943, Gamero, along with various members of the Cortes and several senior army officers, called upon Franco to prepare for the post-Second World War era by restoring the monarchy under Don Juan.
[2] Fearing the growing influence of Nazi agents Franco acted and in May 1941 Gamero was deprived of his position, along with a number of pro-Nazis such as Dionisio Ridruejo and Sancho Dávila y Fernández de Celis.
[8] Increasingly becoming noted for cronyism and financial corruption, Gamero was finally removed from his seat on the Council of State in 1943 after publicly calling for the restoration of the monarchy.
[2] Devoting himself to business, he was on the board or helping to run a number of major Spanish companies covering banking,(vice-president of Banco Hispano-Americano, property (Vallehermoso) and shipbuilding (Astilleros Espanoles), and latterly became a founding shareholder in El País, the new newspaper that played a fundamental role in the transition to democracy.