Mussolini, Franco & the Jews

I meant to bring this up a few days ago. Jonah Goldberg of National Review said the following recently:

There's just a lot of mythology out there about how various countries behaved during the war. People forget that Fascist Italy and Franco's Spain were arguably the best Jewish safe-havens in Europe (in Italy, that is, until 1943 when the Nazis took over).

I've never heard anything like this before.