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Hitler'S Spanish Legion - The Blue Division in Russia in WWII (Paperback)
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Hitler'S Spanish Legion - The Blue Division in Russia in WWII (Paperback)
Series: Stackpole Military History Series
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For nearly three years, August 1941 to March 1944, 47,000 Spanish
soldiers served under German command on the Russian front, two of
those years con tinuously in the line in the siege of Leningrad.
There were 22,000 casu alties, of which 4,500 were killed in ac
tion or died of wounds, disease, or frost bite. Fewer than 300
prisoners of war finally were repatriated in 1954. The story of
these Spanish volunteers told here, largely from original Spanish
and German archival sources, in the graphic detail of a military
history cover ing the major battles of the Russo-German war, gives
an entirely different perspective to the siege of Leningrad which
is neither Communist nor Nazi but Mediterranean. Thinking of
themselves as warriors, as opposed to soldiers, the Spaniards
fought with great courage and dash. Masters of improvisation, they
lived off the countryside, regarded the Russians as human beings,
and often formed strong bonds with the peasants--so strong that the
Russian population often protected the Spaniards from both the Red
Army and the partisans.
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