Ramón Serrano Suñer
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Ramón Serrano Suñer, was a Spanish politician during the first stages of Francoist Spain, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the FET y de las JONS caucus, and then Interior
Portrait by Ignacio Zuloaga
Heinrich Himmler at Madrid Northern Railway Station, October 1940, being honoured by Spanish soldiers. Ramón Serrano Suñer is in a dark uniform then worn by the Spanish Falange Party leaders.
Serrano Suñer (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (right) in Berlin, 1940
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
Ramón Serrano Suñer
…stance during World War II, when he and Franco unsuccessfully pushed for Spain to join the Axis powers and subsequently supported the sending of the Blue Division to fight along with the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. He was also the brother-in-law of Francisco Franco's wife Carmen Polo, for which he was informally…
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