Blue Division
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The 250th Infantry Division, better known as the Blue Division, was a unit of volunteers from Francoist Spain operating from 1941 to 1943 within the German Army on the Eastern Front during World War I
Volunteers from the Blue Division
Blue Division soldiers manning a gun during training in 1941
Division's soldiers at the siege of Leningrad in 1943
Soldiers of the Blue Division in skis in 1942 near the Volkhov
Blue Legion
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The Blue Legion, officially called the Spanish Volunteer Legion, was a volunteer legion created from 2,133 falangist volunteers who remained behind at the Eastern Front after most of the Spanish Blue
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…October 1943 and returned to Spain shortly afterwards. Several thousand non-returners were incorporated into the 121st Infantry Division, the short-lived Blue Legion, and eventually into the Waffen-SS. Francisco Franco took power at the head of a coalition of fascist, monarchist, and conservative political factions…
Memorial in the Cementerio de la Almudena to Blue Division and Blue Legion soldiers: note the dates 1941–1944.