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Blue Division - Spanish Blood in Russia, 1941-1945 (Hardcover)
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Blue Division - Spanish Blood in Russia, 1941-1945 (Hardcover)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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This book, translated from the original Spanish, is the primary
academic and historical study of the Blue Division -- a Falangist
initiative involving the dispatch of some forty-thousand Spanish
combatants (over a half of whom paid with their lives, health, or
liberty) to the Russian Front during the Second World War. Xavier
Moreno Julia does not limit himself to relating their deeds under
arms, but also analyses -- for the first time -- the political
background in detail: the complex relations between the Spanish
government and Hitler's Germany; the internal conflicts between the
Falangists and the Army; the rise and fall of Franco's
brother-in-law, Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, who inspired the Blue
Division and became the second most powerful person in Spain; and
the attitude of General Agustin Munoz Grandes, commander of the
Blue Division, who was encouraged by Berlin to seriously consider
the possibility of taking over the reins of Spanish power. In the
end, there were 45,500 reasons that led to joining the Blue
Division -- one for each young man who decided to enlist. To
understand all of the complex reasons behind their military service
under German command is impossible at this juncture. It is an
irrecoverable past that lies in Spanish cemeteries and on the
Russian steppes. This book, based on massive documentation in
German, British and Spanish archives, is an essential source of
information to understand Spain in the 1940s -- an epoch when the
Caudillo's power and the regime's good fortune were less secure
than is often believed. Published in association with the Canada
Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, LSE.
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