The División Azul, or Spanish Blue Division, was a unit of about 45,000 volunteers from Francoist Spain that fought alongside ...

Germany invaded Poland in September and launched ... For one thing, much of the history of the Spanish Civil War has been forgotten or even actively suppressed over the decades.

From the very beginning, Hitler’s Germany had supported the insurgents with weapons ... and has been involved in the research of various topics related to the Spanish civil war. He currently works as ...

A Bolivian diplomat who translated ‘Mein Kampf’ brought up the Spanish dictator’s origins with the Third Reich. ‘Further ...

The Spanish Civil War served as a testing ground for Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy prior to World War II. This triggered an international outcry to try to save the Republic’s ...

Nazi Germany sent personnel there to gain battlefield experience for what would come later. Many of the German soldiers and airmen who fought in the Spanish Civil War did so as part of a military ...

Germany was forced by 1920 to surrender all ... since most of the Spanish Navy had sided with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Fascist Italy also supplied eleven Savoia-Marchetti S.M ...

The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between ... fed into approval of the activities of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany. Preston says comparisons were often made between the ...

as the end of the Spanish Civil War was soon followed by the start of World War II, when Australia went to war against Nazi Germany, and then Fascist Italy. "So the people who got in first should ...