Blue Division - The Unexpected Soldiers Fighting for Germany

[@hoselui]

Battle Krasny Bor: 5.900 spaniards agaisnt 33.000 russians, 1.000 artillery pieces and 30 tanks and Blue division were able to hold the line. There were few feats like this in WWII

[@nanananananananbatmann8245]

Im from spain we live in a warm enviroment we still kicked their asses at -5°

[@juanfrancisco9417]

100 soviet tank KV-1 and T-34, non 30 soviet tank

[@jorgeo4483]

@Autor: Franco was not a fascist, he was in any case a National Catholicist, but in reality he had no political affection, politics had killed coexistence in Spain just as it does today. He was pragmatic, patriotic, an excellent statesman, probably the best of his century by far and the only leader to defeat communism in a war. Spain went from being neutral to being non-belligerant, two different statuses. Negotiations with Hitler were impossible precisely to avoid entering another war, having just emerged from ours without reservations and economically blocked at the initiative of the criminal republican government in exile, in the face of the contempt of the Western powers, delighted to sink Spain. They took what they could from Germany and Italy. As is the norm of education in Spain, we returned the visit to the Russians, leaving a memory of victory and honors as always we have done.

[@justinalonso8648]

@@nanananananananbatmann8245 yo tambien🫡

[@19piolin82]

44.000 rusos, 800 cañones, y 100 tanques rusos. 5000 españoles con Mausers y ametralladoras MG-34. Resultado, 1125 españoles muertos, 1100 heridos, 125 desaparecidos y 300 prisioneros. Rusos al menos 12.000 muertos.

[@ryanvargas4889]

I’ve studied this Division and I’m glad to see it’s getting some exposure.

[@iuliuscaesar9078]

Before the battle: Spain: 6000 men Russia :: 36,000 men After the battle: Spain: 4000 killed Russia :: 10,000 killed Despite being six times the strength, the Russians were forced to stop their offensive on the 50 kilometers controlled by the Spanish. This action and others brought on the part of the German soldiers great respect for the Spanish military.

[@lintran3211]

if only the ITALIANS fought that bravely........Hmmmm......LOL

[@hannah1943]

@@lintran3211 my two uncles told me that Italians. they fights against fight quite well. until they ran out of ammunition

[@noname2nobody671]

@IsraelLopez-qk3pg seguro que vas tu con un tirachinas e invades rusia

[@cedricliggins7528]

This is so unlike the Italians who folded when facing the Soviets.

[@Flyinghigh3597]

4000 men lost, that was close to 10% of the strength of blue division

[@inhocsignovinces1081]

On 10 February 1943, 2,000 Spanish soldiers from the Blau Division fell in battle defending Europe from communist hordes. Never to be forgotten. Arriba Europa, arriba España !!

[@99somerville]

I can’t imagine what it was like to fight (and survive) in that cold and snow. Brave men on both sides.

[@fredmidtgaard5487]

Yeah, the cold and snow were the biggest problems.... not the Russians?

[@vilangel78]

Mis dos tíos/abuelos (Antonio y Luis) murieron en Rusia, combatiendo a la Unión Soviética y su expansión continental. Antonio (el mayor de los hermanos) fue el primero en morir y Luis, abandonaría este mundo ocho días más tarde. Sus cuerpos no fueron hallados, quedando enterrados para la eternidad en una tierra extraña y poco amable... ¡A saber dónde están! Pertenecieron a la División 250° de Voluntarios Españoles integrada en la Wehrmacht, más conocida popularmente como División Azul. Eran hombres valientes y determinados, que murieron defendiendo Europa del bolchevismo. Hombres de sólidos e inconmensurables principios morales, aferrados a un estricto sentido del orden y la justicia. Mi abuelo materno tuvo más suerte y consiguió sobrevivir al conflicto. No nos corresponde a nosotros juzgarlos, ya pagaron el precio más alto. DESCANSEN EN PAZ

[@moltderenou]

E P D

[@jerusalem7372]

🇪🇦🇯🇪🤚✝️⚘

[@santagemma6212]

Fueron héroes! Que El Señor los tenga en Su Gloria. No dejes de rezar por ellos.

[@cryptoenespanolcre7168]

Mi abuelo en paz descanse también luchó en la división azul, sobrevivió por suerte. Casi nunca habló de las cosas negativas tal vez por no querer recordarlas. Las pocas historias que contó eran sobre saquear el palacio de las zarinas y las cantidades obscenas de oro que había allí. Alguna vez menciono muy brevemente cosas horribles que le pasaron a algunos de sus compañeros, dejar sus caballos morir de frio para poder alimentar a la tropa, rusos cargando hacia ellos casi desarmados para hacerlos gastar balas y millones de mosquitos. Se llamaba Ángel Sánchez y era alcalde de un pueblo de Jaén llamado Fuensanta de Martos, veterano de la guerra civil fue sargento en Rusia. Según mi abuela en paz descanse el proceso no fue muy voluntario. Lo único que trajo de Rusia fue una cajita de música del saqueo del palacio, dijo que el resto lo dejó en Rusia porque no quería una fortuna manchada de sangre y malos recuerdos. Murió décadas después de la guerra de un ataque al corazón después de cenar un "chorizo al infierno" (chorizo impregnado de alcohol etílico al que le prendían fuego hasta que el alcohol se consumía), no se si sería el sitio a donde fue o de donde vino o si fue solo una coincidencia pero fue lo que pasó. Sólo escribí este comentario para contarte alguna de las historias que que tus tio y abuelo no pudieron contarte. Un abrazo y un saludo

[@santagemma6212]

Que descansen sus almas en la paz de Dios. Fueron héroes!

[@joaquinortega3390]

La unidad Ezquerra. During the last battle of World War II in Europe, a group of about 300 Spaniards defended Hitler's bunker in Berlin against the advance of the Allies. Miguel Ezquerra, the leader of the unit, affirmed that Hitler himself received him in his bunker to grant him the Knight's Cross .

[@johnmn3500]

I just accept no matter how much ww2 info I learn there is always a endless supply of stories I haven't yet heard.

[@reggiep75]

You'll be shielded from the real truth and horrors of WWII forever. After all, all historical victors write the history of the wars they won, even if its complete BS. Dig deep enough tho, and you'll find the truth and it's not pretty.

[@thomaswilson7538]

Can you imagine seeing 22,000 dead soldiers laying close to your foxhole? I can't.

[@Stable_Genius]

@@reggiep75 🤣🤣🤣

[@frankly88]

Europa The Last Battle, Hellstorm, The Greatest Story Never Told..

[@arthas640]

Historians are still arguing over key details and still unearthing new information

[@wolfi2896]

hello from germany my spanish brothers you are truly wariors

[@juanjosegonzalezdenevado1922]

Gracias Danke

[@justinalonso8648]

🇪🇸🤝🇩🇪🫡

[@jimb173]

Bravery and sacrifice of soldiers will always be misunderstood by all those who never serve their nation.

[@feet3504]

my great grandpa died in the civil war and after the war his friend volunteered to join this division

[@terrancecoard388]

First time hearing about this division...Thanks!

[@kennygottlieb3628]

Like Legion Etrangeré from France, until 1984 where it stopped, letting forreign volunteers inlist.

[@rickyricco2352]

Your welcome for defending your continent against communist

[@armandogimenez1216]

La más laureada de wermachat

[@vilangel78]

Mi abuelo materno y sus dos hermanos, formaron parte de la División Azul.

[@pepitopalotes5608]

@@armandogimenez1216 mentira.

[@hansjochenvo6094]

Unsere spanischen Kameraden, danke. Espana, una, grande , libre.

[@J-D-T]

Gracias por las bonitas palabras pero, permítete darle un consejo, no diga ese lema en alto, le traerá problemas.

[@stefanrichter9162]

I lived in Guadarrama , near El Escorial , north of Madrid. The street at my flat was c/General Muñoz Grandes ! I loved that postal adress!

[@modelistonthego6744]

In the last years, our government got rid of all those street names...doubt is still there.

[@davidcolin6519]

@@modelistonthego6744 Thank God! I may not be a religious person, but living in a democracy while having streets named after fascists is only possible in Spain. That should NOT be a point of pride. If it is, you won't understand.

[@DanielDiaz-qr7hp]

@@davidcolin6519 Democracies like the US have slave owners on the currencies or the UK statues celebrating known war criminals and assassins of its colonial wars. Are you critical of these as well or are you a demagogue?

[@davidcolin6519]

@@DanielDiaz-qr7hp I don't understand the reference to being a demagogue, I'm certainly no leader, but I am critical of BS. Yes, I am equally critical, if not more so, of the hypocrisy of the USA (though I have nothing to do with it, I am a Briton who has lived in many countries and chose to settle in Spain) and, if anything, I am even more critical of the UK's involvement in international affairs and war crimes.

[@morstyrannis1951]

@@DanielDiaz-qr7hp are you able to educate us without engaging in wild woke hyperbole about the war criminals and assassins you’re referring to?

[@justod1117]

Al fin, un video en la Divison Azul, un abrazo.

[@marquisdelafayette1929]

Hitler said he wanted Franco to join the war but told Mussolini speaking with Franco was like “I would prefer to have three or four of my own teeth pulled out than to speak to that man again!”.

[@Timberjac]

Later the person in charge of trying to convince Franco was Mussolini, and it is said that Franco replied to him... If you were in my situation and knew what you know now, you would not like to take Italy out of the war, and Mussolini confessed that he did. In any case, in the initial meeting with Hitler, it is said that it was the head of the Abwehr, through third parties, who advised Franco not to get involved in the war... something that at first he did not seem inclined to do.

[@jorgeeslava6455]

When Stalin wanted to plan an attack, he asked two questions, where is the SS and where is the Blue Division, then he planned his attack somewhere else. This is a fact. One other fact about the Blue Division, they were well respected by the Soviet civilians, for they showed alot of compassion to the people. This is also a fact.

[@Miidentificadordisponible1234]

Yes indeed

[@apostolisnatsios7953]

You lost mate. Get over it.

[@javierlav]

@@apostolisnatsios7953 Spain lost in the 1936-39 war because the European democracies stabbed the Spanish Republic in the back.

[@apostolisnatsios7953]

@@javierlav of course they did. Their only concern was to enforce the nazis, so as to attack the USSR and supress the Democratic forces in the continent.

[@davidsnedeker8098]

Bullshit. Keep this shit up creeps. There is a very hot place in hell for people who lie about Jew Killers, and Fascist rapists.

[@laszlo5201]

When a russian soldiers sneezes and the snow says ¡Salud!

[@jorgeadelprado]

When the woods start speaking in Spanish

[@actinganimal885]

Russian:”Spanish? Tf Ivan you some kind of fuckin wizard?”

[@tylerfish6206]

Haha

[@Josh93B93]

Russian soldier replies , "ohh da vai, I hope you enjoy Vorkuta."

[@benamini5701]

¡Jesús!

[@Playwithdeutschland]

We need more people in the German army, Spain was tough asf 💪💪💪

[@InfernalLeo777]

I'm Spanish and I like Germans, good to see we had strong ties with them. Biggest w

[@bobapbob5812]

My Russian Professor in college (Duke University) and his wife were two of only 11 members of the University to survive the siege of Leningrad. He told us that during the siege he was with a unit that fought the Spanish Blue Division.

[@cryptoenespanolcre7168]

My grandfather (Rest In Peace) fought in the blue division and survived, he almost never talked about the bad things that happened, maybe he just did not wanted to remember them. He mentioned lots of russians charging at them almost unarmed, he thought russians sent their soldiers unarmed to make them spend bullets before sending armed troops when there were no more bullets. Also mentioned very very briefly picking up dead comrades that would fit in a box of shoes and letting the warhorses die to feed the troops. He was a veteran of the spanish civil war and a sargent in russia. Must had seen absolutely horrible things but he refused to talk about them for more than a few seconds. Hope your profesor and his wife are ok or lived a long happy life, hope you are doing good too.

[@Playwithdeutschland]

@@cryptoenespanolcre7168 my grandfather fought with the 12th SS in France then in Berlin 45

[@alesisanchez9728]

​@@cryptoenespanolcre7168sad to read of his suffering. It is the fate of many veterans. They don't talk for many reasons, to be free of things they'll never truly be free of, to not impose the horror on the listener, to be seen as they are not as they were or suffered or did, to not attempt to explain the inexplicable. PTSD was not an accepted thing until around 30 years ago. So many men suffered greatly in silence with a war of a different kind living inside them their while lives. I can only imagine the suffering and deeply respect it and the reasons they endured it.

[@davidcasanovas9659]

Al margen de sus motivos- con los que uno puede estar de acuerdo, o no,- hay que admirar la valentía absoluta de estos hombres. España es un país guerrero y orgulloso, donde la lealtad a los principios y la familia es sagrada. Y se da la vida por ellos

[@howardbealethemadprophetof3361]

No small wonder Ridley Scott's Gladiator AD 2000 main character was based upon a Vir Hispanicum!

[@clarkstartrek]

Yes...you are correct. Many Spanish men filled the Roman Legions. Plus.... In the same way many other Spaniards who came to Rome, contributed so much and collaborated to the improvement of the empire, including the SPANISH EMPERORS TRAJAN, HADRIAN AND MARCUS AURELIUS, although the latter is linked to Spain by his family and not by birth, and some to the improvement of his native province.

[@johnwalsh4857]

some of the best units in the Eastern Front.

[@101jlam]

My Great Uncle fought during the Civil War with the republicans (he was in the wrong place at the wrong time) and afterwards he joined as a volunteer for the Blue Division. He fought in the battle of Krasny Bor and we never heard back from him. I felt proud reading your comment and I sincerely thank you. I'm glad this channel decided to make a video about the 'Blue Division'. Even though it represents one of the darkest moments in spanish history, i feel proud about the bravery that was shown by those men. curious fact: During their time in the Eastern Front they would sometimes find themselves fighting against spaniards among the soviets (most of them were republicans that fled after the war to the soviet Union). If a spanish soldier was captured, the men of the Blue Division wouldn't let the Germans deal with him (as they would have probably been tortured or executed), causing many tensions between officers of the Blue DIvision and Wermatch. Even after the Civil War and in the middle of the Second World War they would see each other as brothers that simply fought in the wong side. These kind of incidents happened quite a lot during their time in the Eastern front and in most cases they would let the prisoner leave unscathed.

[@johnwalsh4857]

@@101jlam I heard the Blue Division behave better than Germans towards Soviet civilians , treated them better

[@101jlam]

@@johnwalsh4857 yes, I've heard that too. Could it be because of Catholic tradition? Also the franquist movement excluded all idea about race and stuff. Might be because of that too

[@justod1117]

@@johnwalsh4857 Which is true, they were more humane and didn't even know about concentration camps.

[@morstyrannis1951]

@@johnwalsh4857 There's an English phrase for that, "damning with faint praise." It's not much of a compliment to say someone treated Soviet civilians better than the Nazis.

[@isabellaangeline2175]

I’m really starting to get into a lot of the history around WWII and the Cold War. Your channel is really good at offering content I’ve heard nowhere else.

[@scrappydoo7887]

Try Mark felton

[@frankly88]

What these if you want to learn more, Europa The Last Battle , Hellstorm, The Greatest Story Never Told

[@curly8029]

Check out Timeline channel.

[@SG-no1hh]

This is how Spaniards have always fought, they are the bravest in the world !!!

[@serbarr2087]

Good video. Some highlights on the Blue Division: They were initially seen warily by the German High Command, since they were not as disciplined as the Germans They would continuously break German rules on fraternalization with the Russian civilians. They treated the Russian much better than the Germans, to a point that they had no partisans in their area, and the civilians would warn them on Soviet troops movements and attacks. The Blue Division expected to be trained as a Motorized division, and had a large number of drivers and mechanics in their ranks. They were much surprised to see how many German divisions still used horses and carriages. Due to their performance in the winter of 1941, the 250th was earmarked to take place as an assault division for the attack on Leningrad that the 11th army was preparing in late 1942. In Krasny Bor, 5,000 Spaniards stopped Operation Polar Star, facing the 55th army, which had 10x their numbers. There was high praise from the Germans due to the fighting prowess of the Spaniards. Hitler himself spoke highly of the Spanish troop, both public and in private (Hitler referred to the division as "equal to the best German ones". During his table talks, he said: "...the Spaniards have never yielded an inch of ground. One can't imagine more fearless fellows. They scarcely take cover. They flout death. I know, in any case, that our men are always glad to have Spaniards as neighbors in their sector". You can find a great book on the Division on Amazon: Hitler's Spanish Legion: The Blue Division in Russia in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series): Kleinfeld, Gerald R., Tambs, Lewis

[@pikminyoshi66]

this is propaganda for teenagers, pseudo historians will not change the reality the allies defeated Nazism...final point. There is however a problem these teenagers may one day want to play heroes and that day the reality will hit them in their flesh, in their families etc...as recently in Ukraine! Greetings from France

[@serbarr2087]

@@pikminyoshi66 Let us unpack your statement a bit, as I think there are at least two topics, non related. 1- It is not propaganda, I have stated facts, backed by the book I mentioned, which in itself references to multiple documents. You are welcome to read it, it is quite good. 2- Indeed, both the book, and everyone else can agree that the allies won World War 2. 3- Teenagers will always want to play at being heroes, as everyone who is young does not think of his own mortality and only dreams of glory, and agreed that once they experience war, they quickly de-romanticize it. As Desireus Eramus said: Dulce bellum inexpertis - “War is Sweet to Those Who Have Never Experienced It”. Salut!

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

@@serbarr2087 I've read this book, and frankly it compares to Antony Beevor's book Stalingrad. It's just one more piece to a library full revisionism proving who in reality was the true enemy of the West in World War II. This includes painting every non-German Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS unit or Germany's allies as a benign force that was repulsed by Nazi/fascist ideology. Spanish troops involved in Leningrad, as far as they were concerned were punishing what they saw as a city full of Communists for backing the Spanish Republic and being the birthplace of the October Revolution.

[@serbarr2087]

@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 I would not consider it revisionist. I have read the Great Patriotic War, to get the Soviet perspective, and that was a bit, lets say, revisionist. Yes, the Blue Division was looking for pay back against the Communist, but no, they did not go out of their way to attack civilians. Here I will quote "The Spaniards who fought alongside the Nazis during the invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II were not considered as cruel as their German counterparts, who took part in murders and rapes of citizens during the occupation, according to a Russian historian. In his new book, Voluntarios en una guerra ajena (Volunteers in someone else’s war), Boris Kovalev, a professor at Novgorod State University, offers various accounts of the Francoist Blue Division force that fought the Soviets alongside the Nazis from 1941 to 1943." So there, you have a Russian source as well.

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

@@serbarr2087 That' is all really a question of perspective. With the exception of perhaps the young German conscript, as far as the Axis armies were concerned they never killed innocent civilians, only Communists and other "undesirables." In Romania the Iasi pogrom and Odessa massacre are widely regarded as anti-Communist operations as opposed to an unhinged slaughter of innocent people. The non-German armies and units within the Nazi forces were exponentially more motivated to rid the world of "Jew Bolshevism" than the German conscript. No doubt the Germans outdid the Spaniards in the number of crimes, but was due primarily to Germans' greater numbers than that of the Spaniards. On that note, Franco and his minions had really nothing to avenge as their victory was the result of Stalin refusing to do in Spain what the Bolsheviks did with the Constituent Assembly and becoming the vanguard of the masses. The Blue Division joined the attack for the same reason the Nazis launched it. Thanks for the reference to the Russian sources. I'll check it out. I'm generally not one to automatically believe a Russian source on the Eastern Front without exploring the angle. For instance, the lie that the Red Army raped every woman and girl between the ages of 8 and 80 from Stalingrad to Auschwitz to Berlin was started by 1970's era Soviet dissidents.

[@josefedericopresno6668]

Muchas gracias por el reconocimiento. Evidentemente estos hombres no se echaban la siesta como muchos piensan fuera de nuestras fronteras.

[@sergiofernandez4566]

Echarse la siesta ayuda a reponerse

[@jmtrevijano9160]

It should be mentioned that General Agustín Grandes not only was awarded by Adolf Hitler with the Knights Order of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He was also awarded with the highest medal of US Armed Forces for foreigners, the Congressional Medal of Honor, directly from the hands of the President of the United States, General Dwight Eisenhower. This must be quite exceptional as there is only one Spaniard that I know who also got awarded by the two sides of the war, doble agent Juan Pujol "Garbo" awarded with Germany"s Iron Cross and also awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire.

[@leovigildrekkared8702]

Can you please tell about the US-medal given to General Augustin Grande? For which service did he received it? thx!

[@pepitopalotes5608]

@@leovigildrekkared8702 he made it up. There is no way a former Wehrmacht officer that never did anything for the USA can get a medal of honor.

[@vascovideo5678]

I did not know. Thank you

[@jmtrevijano9160]

@@vascovideo5678 You are welcome. Agustín Muñoz Grandes was also awarded by General De Gaulle with the Chevalier Legion D'Honneur Order.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

It still baffles me how these soldiers kept up their ammo. I get so used to video games but thinking of moving so much, or pushing into past your troops line's.. I bet it was always a challenge to keep resupplying ammunition, that's not even mentioning gasoline.. or food.. it's just mind blowing..

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

Or just staying warm for that matter. Winter of 42-43 was one of the coldest in Russian history.

[@cryptoenespanolcre7168]

My grandfather (Rest In Peace) fought in the blue division and survived. Before the blue division he was the Mayor of a little town in Spain called Fuensanta de Martos in the Jaen province, a veteran of the spanish civil war and a sargent in russia, he almost never talked about the bad things that happened, maybe he just did not wanted to remember them. He mentioned lots of russians charging at them almost unarmed, he said he thought russians sent their soldiers unarmed to make them spend bullets before sending armed troops when they thought there were no more bullets. Also mentioned very very briefly picking up dead comrades that would fit in a box of shoes, letting the warhorses die frozen to feed the troops, undeserved medals for killing almost unarmed russians and millions of mosquitos. Must had seen absolutely horrible things but he refused to talk about them for more than a few seconds. He brought back only a little music box from the pillage of the tsar palace in Pokrovskaya as a gift for my grandmother and told stories about the obscenes amount of gold there, he said he did not wanted to bring back a fortune stained in blood full of bad memories that did not belonged to him. He died decades after the second war one night after eating a "chorizo in hell" (a kind of spicy red sausage soaked of ethilic medic alcohol set on fire until the alcohol was consumed), i do not know if that was the place he was going, the place he came from or just a coincidence. People in the little town still remember him as a person who after the spanish civil war resorted to the black market with his own money from selling properties to buy trucks of milk and potatoes to feed the starving babies and town until he had nothing more to spend than his salary. To this day when i visit the town people i do not know try to invite me to have free dinner at their home because of my grandfather. People i do not know who tell me their family would have been killed during the dictatorship after the civil war, still thank me for having my grandfather saving their lifes disregarding their different political oppinion even when it endangered his own life. Have heard of several stars general in democracy appoint a meeting to threaten with a gun the life of the husbands of his daughters (my mother and aunt) if they did not treated her good many years after he passed away... for sure a person with a huge capacity for self sacrifice in order to help others even while unshaved, unbuttoned and literally eating medical alcohol until his death.

[@55ENR]

Una rusa que trabajaba en la zona ocupada dejó escrito en su diario: "los alemanes son valiantes cuando se lo manda su führer, pero los españoles carecen de instinto de supervivencia. Pueden perder la mitad en un ataque, y los que quedan siguen cantando y luchando. Esto lo hemos visto"

[@rataxv20]

No por algo los tercios tenían 80% de bajas y no rompían la formación, yo me siento orgulloso de España y su historia, sus héroes y de ser español, aunque sea hispanoamericano.

[@KevinLopez-pu7ll]

@@rataxv20 los tercios también tenían algunos generales legendarios como el gran capitán, gran duke de alba, spinola y duke farnese

[@BicornioSPA]

@@rataxv20 Esta es tambien tu historia, un abrazo desde el Sur de España.

[@mathiasriff]

También me siento orgulloso de tener más del 70% de sangre española incluyendo mi bisabuelo que vino de allá

[@boris1387]

Spanish foreign Legion also supported the push in the east

[@DaveSCameron]

Indeed yes with up to 200,000, volunteers.

[@sobrevalorado]

Spain has never had a foreign Legion, just the Legión.

[@boris1387]

@@sobrevalorado Tercios👍🏻 Spanish Legion. Don't know why I thought of foreign 😂😂😂

[@morstyrannis1951]

@@boris1387 Isn't Snoopy in the Foreign Legion?

[@boris1387]

@@morstyrannis1951 probably,😊

[@nicktozie6685]

Regardless of sides, the blue division was one of most effective and formidable division in ww2

[@pepitopalotes5608]

Not true, a horse-drawn division like the Blue Division lacked mobility and firepower compared to a Panzer Division. In static defense it was a solid division, but very far from the combat power of mechanized or armored divisions.

[@Lachausis]

Soviets intervened in Spain. Spain intervened in SU.

[@primal_guy1526]

"No, tu"

[@kennygottlieb3628]

Fair enough

[@davidcolin6519]

Which conveniently ignores the parts played by Western Europe in the Spanish Civil war. The Spanish civilian population was heartily sick and tired of the corruption that lay at the heart of their political situation. They'd just come out of another extreme right wing dictatorship that hadn't even tried to disguise their involvement with both an extremely corrupt monarchy and a Catholic hierarchy that had overtly benefited from both of the above. When you consider that the general population was literally dying of starvation, even in Spain's industrial heartlands of the Basque country and Catalunya, it must have been hard for that population to hear that those countries that espoused "Democracy and Freedom" wouldn't lift a single finger to defend people who believed in those values. Not only that, but those supposed "Democracies" were implicated in much of the fascist takeover of Spain, while they publicly claimed to be neutral in the conflict, the democrats in the conflict were ultimately left completely friendless. George Orwell made it very clear that the ONLY reason the USSR gained power in the anti-fascist movement during the Spanish civil war is that NO Western Power would do anything. Even those that joined the International Brigades did so against the advice of their countries. Not a single Western power provided ANY support for the legitimate government of Spain, let alone any actual military aid. And all this while Hitler openly supported Franco, and two RAF pilots (on leave, apparently) helped Franco to fly back to the Spanish mainland. The double standards of the Right know no bounds.

[@primal_guy1526]

@@davidcolin6519 Yes

[@rickyricco2352]

Don’t mess with us Spaniards we the Mexicans of Europe bruh 😂

[@MattinhoGG]

Spanish Soldiers: "Long Live Death!" Allies: "The.... What?"

[@rodrigogimenez-ricolaguna4913]

Actually it was "Viva la muerte!" wich is not exactly the same, but close :-)))

[@jmtrevijano9160]

@@rodrigogimenez-ricolaguna4913 La traducción al inglés es correcta. Long Live = Viva

[@rodrigogimenez-ricolaguna4913]

@@jmtrevijano9160 me sobra el "long", pero entiendo.

[@jmtrevijano9160]

@@rodrigogimenez-ricolaguna4913 Es como el "Viva el rey" de los británicos. No dicen "Live the King" sino "Long Live the King".

[@rodrigogimenez-ricolaguna4913]

@@jmtrevijano9160 lo se, pero me parece más enfático Viva la Muerte, o lo que sería su traducción literal "Live Death!"

[@EnclaveOfficer1776]

“Swore an oath to destroy communism.”- Based.

[@guilhermeisjojofag896]

YES.

[@EnclaveOfficer1776]

@Jebus Hypocristos looks like you should have a red star on ur uniform comrade.

[@americancaesar4715]

@@EnclaveOfficer1776 Fun fact: Franco was unwaveringly pro Allies in the Pacific Front, due to the horrific news he heard about the Philippines and how the Japanese were murdering the Spaniard and Filipino population there, if Franco had a perfect opportunity to join the Allies in the Pacific it would of been in 1944 before MacArthur's landing. That would be so based seeing Americans and Spaniards fighting side by side in the Philippines.

[@tau-5794]

The more I read and the more I listen, Spain is probably one of the few actually good nations involved in and around WW2. Not evil like Russia and Germany, not militaristic like Britain and Italy, and not targeting civilians like America and Japan. They allowed volunteers to fight the communists who had invaded and tried to overthrow their country in the civil war, but did not put their backing behind the axis powers because they were clearly of socialist ideologies and not traditionalist like Spain. Staying neutral was clearly the right choice to avoid allied takeover, and the volunteers who did fight held no grudge against the innocent civilians in Russia.

[@ragingjaguarknight86]

“If you see a German soldier who is unshaven, in an unbuttoned tunic, and drunk, do not rush to arrest him, most likely this is a Spanish hero.” Chief of Staff of the Army High Command Franz Halder

[@kenduffy5397]

The OKA Nazi war criminal Franz Halder?? The Spaniards were some of the toughest soldiers and kindest civilians, during WWII! So Fuck Franz Halder! He should have been strung up with his buddies Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel & Ernst Kaltenbrunner just to name a few. All cowards, especially Hanz Frank & Franz Halder were at the very top of the cowardly coward's tree!

[@ragingjaguarknight86]

@@kenduffy5397 yours are fair assessments, both of Halder and the Spanish people. And oddly enough, Halder won the US meritorious civilian service award in 1961. Its weird I know. O_o

[@kenduffy5397]

@@ragingjaguarknight86 Thank you, a lot of Nazi's did well after the war? Hell, Otto Skorzeny became a wealthy man. Oddly enough, out of all the people he spied for or on. He never gave up the locations of Some big-time Nazi’s like Mengele, & others that made it out of Germany via the Ratlines?

[@kenduffy5397]

@@ragingjaguarknight86 Did you get my reply about Skorzeny & the Ratlines???

[@kenduffy5397]

@@ragingjaguarknight86 I'm asking you if you received it. Because sometimes I scan my comments with Grammarly & it will screw it up.

[@pablogcasanova]

I am proud of those brave Spaniards who fought to defeat the Soviet terror. Many Russian civilians interviewed after the war related how well Spaniards always behaved with locals. They did not swear loyalty to Hitler not because they can only swear to the pope (to whom they did not) for as Catholics they only swear loyalty to God (not the pope; catholic Spanish monarchs have had serious troubles with several popes throughout History)

[@lachlanbird9688]

Thank you for the video report.

[@maddog8356]

Amazing work. Thank you for sharing this video.

[@ignaciodelapenarodriguez4176]

It is a Big honour our Spanish Blue Division. We fought against the Communists that were involved in 1936 Spanish Civil War.

[@countrylife5764]

You've said it best.

[@Tico.Altacuna]

Throughout its long history, Spain has been the world champion in two games: bravery in combat and betting on the wrong horse.

[@fredazcarate4818]

@Bkarg Bkargerson Just like the Danes in 1860.

[@Horatio.Mantooth]

Actually they bet on the right horse considering many germans went to spain and helped them build infrastructure and military bases for the US. While also maintaining franco in power. The only dictator who survived

[@TexasSteader]

Well put. They didn’t so much lose their empire to war as slowly lose power via bad alliances

[@Tico.Altacuna]

@@TexasSteader Bad alliances? The worst was the choice of bed companions: the conquistadores, unlike the Anglos, did not refrain from "mixing up" with the natives. In fact, they integrated themselves so intimately that, generations later, their grand-sons could hardly identify themselves as Spanish. And THAT was the end of the empire. But don´t get me wrong, I´m just stating the facts, not advocating for a Tunnel of Time apartheid. In fact, if I could travel back in time, the best thing I could do would be to kill Colombus. The American adventure bled Spain almost to death.

[@curtisthomas2670]

And genocide

[@hoselui]

"The Spanish already ruled the world once, they are the only truly brave Mediterranean people and they would immediately organize guerrillas in our rear. You cannot enter Spain without permission from the Spanish." Hitler said this after his generals' proposal to invade Spain

[@lazarovalladares8190]

Wow just WOW I'M A WAR BUFF... And I've never heard about this division these men these soldiers that fought so valiantly!!!

[@pikminyoshi66]

Hello, This is propaganda for teenagers, pseudo historians will not change the reality the allies defeated Nazism...final point. There is however a problem these teenagers may one day want to play heroes and that day the reality will hit them in their flesh, in their families etc...as recently in Ukraine! Greetings from France

[@coentrov]

Very good show in general, but much better when it informs about things no one else talks about "Venga un outro toro"

[@jorgeadelprado]

”¡Vamos cabrones! ¡sacad otro toro!" That's the original

[@PRmoustache88]

Venga un otro toro.

[@pikminyoshi66]

Hello, This is propaganda for teenagers, pseudo historians will not change the reality the allies defeated Nazism...final point. There is however a problem these teenagers may one day want to play heroes and that day the reality will hit them in their flesh, in their families etc...as recently in Ukraine! Greetings from France

[@soundofeighthooves]

the meaning of loyalty is forgotten these days

[@markdean1984]

Thank you for the documentary. Awesome. True heroes

[@Paul-fm4iz]

Good video. But I certainly don't think the United Kingdom 'helped the republic' in any way, quite the opposite. The soldiers in the International Brigades volunteered and traveled to assist the Spanish Republic despite the British government making it illegal to do so. The Soviet Union did assist the republic in a way by arming the PSUK, but their insistence upon the multiple factions coming together effectively under the control of the Comintern is a big reason for the republics downfall. The Non-Intervention Agreement for the Spanish Civil War was signed by the UK, France, Nazi Germany and other powers. The UK made it illegal for their citizens to fight for the republic and France closed the border with Spain to stop foreign volunteers while Nazi Germany airlifted Franco and his army to Spain from Morocco in addition to sending 'volunteer units'. It was part of the completely cowardly European appeasement of Hitler.

[@antdte.5523]

La URSS , fue la primera en enviar material y personal a la República. Alemania e Italia posteriormente envió ayuda a Franco. Los ingleses, se mantuvieron al margen de la luz pública, pero hubo un importante sector que ayudo a la República...Igual que Inglaterra "jugó" durante la Guerra Civil...Franco lo hizo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

[@Paul-fm4iz]

@@antdte.5523 Didn't te Luftwaffe airlift Franco and the Army of Morocco to Spain? Surely that must've been the first outside assistance during the war? I'm also unaware of the British assistance to the Republic at the level of Franco sending trained troop to help during WW2. Can you give some examples?

[@pedropinheiroaugusto3220]

UK and France did a lot of restrictions of any help to the legitimate Republic of Spain while looking away from the active help from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy but it wasn't cowardice, IMO. It was a calculated and cynical support of fascism against any kind of socialism in Europe, not minding it would eventually evolve into full scale war in Europe. That's why the Spanish Civil War is seen by many (and refused to be seen by many others) as the first stage of Second World War.

[@pikminyoshi66]

@@antdte.5523 primero Franco/Hitler...el puente aerio con los Junkers Maruecos/Espana fue el inicio de la rebelion franquista. Inglaterra siempre en las trampas recuerde Annual quien fue la quinta columna (FR/UK...y traidores ESP) eso es lo peor para Espana...Saludos

[@javierlav]

Obviously Britain and France knew of the plans to overthrow the Spanish Republic. Spanish fascist military would have never conducted a coup without being sure France would not intervene on the Republican side. Franco was flown from the Canary Islands to the North of Africa by a British plane that flew from London. Texaco shipped the oil the Republic had paid to ports controlled by the fascists...obviously it was a conspiracy.

[@manuelcorral4625]

No lucharon por una causa justa, pero la División Azúl fué la unidad de extranjeros más laureada del Ejército alemán. La conduzta de los españoles allí se hizo ganar el cariño hasta de los civiles rusos, los cuales durante sus días de convivencia, les cogieron tal cariño, que llegaron a despertarles en varias ocasiones durante la noche, para avisarles que se aproximaba un ataque ruso. Muchos soldados de la división Azúl, en cuanto tuvieron conocimiento de lo que hacían los Nazis con los judíos, pidieron su inmediato traslado a España y otros desertaron uniéndose a los aliados. Todavía hoy se les procesa cariño en los lugares donde combatieron y murieron en Rusia, con varios monumentos conmemorativos. ¡Grande España y enorme su historia!. ❤️🇪🇸

[@armandogimenez1216]

Muy bien hablado,pero le corrigo sin ánimo de ofender....los españoles solo desertaron unos 50 de 47.000 que pasaron por la DA y se pasaron a los comunistas y Stalin los premio llevándolos al cautiverio con el resto de ex compañeros que habían sido hechos prisioneros unos 350...11 años a pico y pala en Siberia....y sobre lo de los judíos, le cuento...los divisionarios no sabían nada de los judíos pues estaban en primera línea y las atrocidades se cometían en retaguardia....se cuenta que que en la ciudad de Riga...los españoles veían a los judíos andar por la carretera y tenían prohibido andar por las aceras.y los españoles se solidarizaban con los judíos y andaban por la carretera con el traje alemán lo que enfurecia a los alemanes y dejaba perplejos a los civiles. Y hubieron como 500 españoles que una vez disuelta la DA pasaron la frontera clandestinamente y se alistaron a las SS en su afán de lucha contra el bolchevismo ,ha sabiendas que Alemania tenía la guerra perdida

[@joseluisnegrocostea361]

El anticomunismo es la más justa de las causas

[@Sergeant_Camacho]

El problema al hablar de la División Azul es que siempre se juzga con una perspectiva actual. Pero debemos entender que ellos se enlistaron con la idea de pelear contra el comunismo; en los años 30's y 40's, la mayoría de los europeos veían a Rusia, y el comunismo, como la principal amenaza. Nadie conocía los campos de exterminio nazis, pero si se conocían los Gulags, las atrocidades en Ucrania, y la intervención soviética en España. Además es también hacer notar que muchos de ellos siguieron peleando aun cuando Franco la retiró oficialmente. Algunos de ellos lucharon en Berlín.

[@thatguyyoudontknow2962]

No hay lucha más justa en esta tierra que contra el comunismo y el fascismo.

[@jerusalem7372]

11 de mayo de 2022 Ucrania lucha por su libertad contra las hordas bolcheviques rusas. EL TIEMPO A DADO LA RAZON A AQUELLOS HOMBRES. ¡¡ gloria eterna a la 250 división !! 🇪🇦🇯🇪🤚✝️⚘

[@proantagonist5042]

We need a movie about these guys

[@rodrigogimenez-ricolaguna4913]

Spain now is the heaven for LGBTxyz... and all this is considered horrible by our actual goberment formed by the very worst of every Spain regions together.

[@alfredosenalle9284]

@@rodrigogimenez-ricolaguna4913 Because the communists are persistent and they have most of Spain fooled by their BS.

[@piloto88ed]

@@rodrigogimenez-ricolaguna4913 All west world dude.

[@HO-bndk]

This is no surprise. The Dons have always been hard fighters.

[@BlackSunBloodyMoon]

Respect to all the Germans & Italians Viva España ✋🏻🇪🇸

[@motorrebell]

Saludos - Respect from Germany ! ;)

[@codym7299]

🇩🇪❤🇪🇦

[@pepesempire]

Viva la Spagna

[@Playwithdeutschland]

I wish there was more people in the division, they definitely would’ve helped us more then our German soldiers. I find it crazy how lots of Spanish people stayed to fight in Berlin, idk how that would go

[@JimInYamaguchi]

Thanks for the disclaimer (“As images and footage...”)-I think it’s a huge plus for your content’s credibility.

[@pikminyoshi66]

Hello, This is propaganda for teenagers, pseudo historians will not change the reality the allies defeated Nazism...final point. There is however a problem these teenagers may one day want to play heroes and that day the reality will hit them in their flesh, in their families etc...as recently in Ukraine! Greetings from France

[@JimInYamaguchi]

@@pikminyoshi66 I think you're full of shit on this. Everything I've seen so far on this channel checks out factually. Besides, this channel's content make no attempt to “change the reality the allies defeated Nazism.” If anything, they support that take.

[@pikminyoshi66]

@@JimInYamaguchi Relax Jim!!! relax...I understand that you are an expert, if this is not propaganda then this is "amateurism at a very low level...but in subtitle : where over "5,900 brave men" halted the advance ... the Russian not brave men??? a partial treatment is synonymous with bias which is a fact of propaganda, so it is necessary to remove "brave" to be correct etc...etc... you understand or you are of bad faith and therefore you are politicized, It’s your right, and by doing so, you’re losing credibility and the video document that you support. here are more realistic data : On 15 February, the Blue Division reported 3645 dead or wounded and 300 missing or imprisoned, representing a casualty rate of 70-75 per cent of the troops involved in the battle; its rifle battalion lost nearly 90 per cent of its initial strength. He claimed he had caused 11,000 casualties "no certified" to the 55th Army in the five days that... Spanish casualties throughout the Soviet-German conflict amounted to 22,700 - 3934 deaths in battle, 570 deaths from disease, 326 missing or captured, 8466 injured, 7800 sick and 1600 frozen. In action against the Spanish Division, the Red Army suffered 49,300 casualties "no certified". now you have acquired a little more historical knowledge...greetings from France

[@JimInYamaguchi]

😵

[@pikminyoshi66]

@@JimInYamaguchi LOL...Buy yourself a lollipop. Regards

[@spacecat7247]

I never got a chance to comment before but I love your Docs. Subd to all. Great stories and storytelling. Glad you're out there. On the fringe.

[@markmulder9845]

Soviets: *Interferes in Spanish civil war.* Spanish: Bout time we return the favor.

[@davidcolin6519]

I think you should check up on your history, you dolt.

[@JDDC-tq7qm]

And Spain got their ass kicked in Russia 😂😂😂

[@VIC-tz6wc]

​@@JDDC-tq7qm like the urss in spain 😂😂

[@pilovlog]

Franco did not sympathize with Hitler. What really happened is that Franco hated communism, which led to the creation of the Blue Division. This division was only permitted to fight alongside German troops on the Russian front and did not intervene elsewhere to avoid conflicts with the Allies. One could argue that the fact that Spaniards went to fight against communism as part of the Blue Division was a continuation of the Spanish Civil War.

[@grimdesaye6534]

Great Video:) Thank you.

[@TheYeti308]

Danke , Blue's . !

[@charlieecho7253]

Great video. Great info. Always good to learn different perspectives of things.

[@deadalready7467]

TY. Another great video.

[@rickyricco2352]

I’m a proud descendant of a Spanish Blue Division survivor my great grandpa fought those Soviet dogs lost his brother in combat after the war he couldn’t stand what Europe had become so he came to Mexico then ended up in California 🇺🇸 😂 what a trip.. very nice video very well articulated and put together. I approve this message Spain really just wanted to save Europe from communism and the Russian menace that plagued Spain with war and communism I do feel like we 🇪🇸 got payback for what the Russians caused in my old homeland.. funny as it is my wife is Russian/American 😆 I’m telling you life has a funny way of showing you things

[@ErichHiller44]

God damn bro you do it every time thanks again!

[@AdrianRodriguez-yz5sp]

excellent mini documentary. I am Spanish and my great grandfather, who fought there would be proud

[@wolf7n6]

Proud of my heritage. Arriba Espana! 🇪🇸

[@lablackzed]

Hard warriors they deserve respect.

[@davidcolin6519]

No. They don't. They fought against their own constitution's basis of democracy. There is nothing "Heroic" about treason.

[@maxluburic657]

ALLWAYS!!!

[@maxluburic657]

@@davidcolin6519 Oh, there is it again, this little pathetic man!

[@davidcolin6519]

@@maxluburic657 Yeah. I'm not the one proclaiming how brilliant a failed political theory like fascism is. Europe's fascists are the truly pathetic ones. Marching around in pathetic little groups and dreaming about some pathetic "some day" when they'll eventually get their own back against the world that ridicules them day in, day out. I mean, the poster boys for Fascism were a jumped up corporal, a dreamer who never got to serve and a pilot who couldn't accept that his squadron wouldn't commit mass suicide! I could go on but the whole thing about fascism is that it is all too pathetic. Without Opus Deii, even Franco's pathetic attempt at "making Spain great again" would have folded in ignominy. But it really required the democratic will for Spain to drag itself into the modern era. That must eat you up. What a pathetic picture you make.

[@pikminyoshi66]

Hello, This is propaganda for teenagers, pseudo historians will not change the reality the allies defeated Nazism...final point. There is however a problem these teenagers may one day want to play heroes and that day the reality will hit them in their flesh, in their families etc...as recently in Ukraine! Greetings from France

[@johannamunchensthauffenber3418]

herzlichen Glückwunsch zu deinem Kanal ❤️

[@jonmeek3879]

Great video! Well done

[@ruralrelaxationvideos]

Excelent video, are there any good books about this brave men?

[@JoseSanchez-nj3rc]

Hay un libro de los que cayeron prisioneros en el frente Ruso,se llama Embajador en el infierno.Lo escribió el Capitán Teodoro.

[@berbe7706]

search Carlos Caballero Jurado, he has plenty of books about Division Azul

[@luisfrias7236]

The Blue Division.....blue for the blue shirt they wore under the Wehrmacht blouse.....was the german unit with higher percentage of college graduates....most of the voluntaires were college boys. i knew some of them back in the 70,s

[@MichaelAngloson]

Can’t forgot that even in this Division there were more foreigners besides Spanish a few Portuguese, Italians, even a Mexican, Cuban in there as well. 💪🏼 Love reading the history of this unit.

[@MichaelAngloson]

Laughed at the “Are you real soldiers or Gypsies?” Because im Mexican volunteering in Ukrainian Army and always they ask “Are you a Gypsy?” 😂

[@r32guy85]

who was the cuban who was in the division?

[@esequieltrindade9244]

@@r32guy85 fidel castro

[@simonbolivartenecesitamos6890]

@@esequieltrindade9244that makes no sense

[@nazgul225]

And Puerto Ricans

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Incredible. I had absolutely no idea of this chapter of the war. Thank you for the continued enlightenment and entertainment.

[@pikminyoshi66]

Hello, This is propaganda for teenagers, pseudo historians will not change the reality the allies defeated Nazism...final point. There is however a problem these teenagers may one day want to play heroes and that day the reality will hit them in their flesh, in their families etc...as recently in Ukraine! Greetings from France

[@stevebrickshitta870]

@@pikminyoshi66 Not sure I understand the relevance of your point here. Who is arguing that the allies didn't defeat Nazism?

[@javierarmada4819]

The paradox is that the defeted republicans of the Civil War flee to France and became the fist defenders of the resistance, due to their skills, and many that flee to the north of Africa enlisted to the Ninth division of general Leclerc. The first division that free París. Sadly comunism is back to Spain

[@javierlav]

WTF are you talking about?

[@davidsnedeker8098]

@@javierlav Fascism is alive and still lying. That's what it is about, made up shit to paper over murder.

[@javierlav]

Communism is back where? it is funny these crazy comments. Do you know that Spain belongs to the EU and as part of the EU we are not a completely sovereign country? Sadly the educational level in Spain after so many years of democracy has gone down instead of having progressed.

[@darkcat5649]

@@javierlav what are you talking about?

[@espada9]

@@javierlav You must be blind.

[@georgewilkie3580]

I'm quite proud to be half Spaniard on my Mom's side (Catalan). The Spanish have always been outstanding Troops. Remember El Cid kicking the Invading Muslims out of Spain, thereby also protecting all of Western Europe.

[@zororosario]

Truly interesting video how they tried to save a church during this time in the war. They believed fighting against communism

[@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917]

Just like the Nazis

[@stevencarlson7853]

That's one I missed, very good video

[@strawberryshirt87]

Fascinating

[@John-cg1ex]

The British, French and American governments implemented an arms embargo on Spain, while Germany and Italy sent troops to Spain. It was only the Soviet Union and the International Brigades who supported the legal Spanish Republic. Roosevelt said later that one of greatest mistakes was not supporting the Spanish Republic.

[@casanova8762]

and Spain got out of the marshall plan

[@vascoespañol]

National catholics received oil from texaco, trucks fro Ford and money from Jp Morgan

[@hannah1943]

nationalists save Spain for the Marxist dogs. the murderers of nuns and Priests

[@VIC-tz6wc]

They sent weapons, not to much but they sent it

[@Milo_1368]

Love all these CETME rifles and M60 Patton tanks in 1941

[@rman126]

Glad I wasn't the only one who saw that.

[@michaela7759]

True😁 You'd never find a sloppy mistake like this in a Mark Felton's video. As Franco remained in power until 75 it's obviously much easier to find archives and videos of francoist military from the 60s and 70s.

[@jefferybanas1605]

Thank you. I thought I was in the twilight zone.

[@Milo_1368]

Dark uses stock footage that seldom matches what is being discussed.

[@morstyrannis1951]

@@Milo_1368 That's true, but very few channels avoid that mistake. I suspect there isn't much actual footage on this subject, so it's better than looking at the Indian Chief test pattern.

[@WPTheRabbitHole]

5:01 we need more of this today

[@thomashenderson1331]

Very interesting. I have studied WWII for years, never heard of the “Blues” before.

[@jdmortega9121]

You are an ignorant man

[@antdte.5523]

Blue Division and Blue Squadron

[@valdasendriulaitis50]

As a Lithuanian I say ☝️ viva Espana ! For sending these Volunteer heroes to help defend our Europe on the eastern front from the Bolshevik Communists were the greatest evil that Europe has ever known !

[@edchampion3720]

Viva Espana

[@howardbealethemadprophetof3361]

VIVA ESPAÑA Y VIVA LITUANIA (que mi novia era de padres lituanos llegados a Argentina) VIVA ESPAÑA Y VIVA LITHUANIA (kad mano mergina buvo iš Argentinos atvykusių lietuvių lietuvių) ⚡⚡🇪🇸PLVS VLTRA🇪🇸⚡⚡

[@istvansipos9940]

keep calm. and evil empire fought another evil empire. It was fukkd up anyway on the Eastern front.

[@fromulus]

They were just more successful than the nazi's, lasted longer, ended up inflicting more damage. The nazi's would've blown past their numbers with added longevity to the regime.

[@robertphillips6296]

Thank you for posting.

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@jamesray1439]

It’s nice seeing you here. Any thoughts on the DPMS ANVIL?

[@marciofadel4709]

Another thing that I din't knew. Thanks

[@aaronclack2705]

What about a video about the ex german soldiers including ss men in the french foreign legion after ww2

[@john_ipu8721]

they just can't take a civilian life , Warfare pain and murder is in their blood

[@blackbird5634]

they brought all that hate to Southeast Asia and South America with torture and counterinsurgency measures taught them by the SS. Many escaped Nazis went to the middle east and taught torture and repression to muslim countries who did not support a Jewish State. We're still seeing their gruesome legacy now.

[@SamO-ik2cm]

@@blackbird5634 ebul naziiiis

[@christianhegemann1911]

80 % of soldiers died in Dien Bien Fu of the French foreign legion was German Waffen SS.

[@SamO-ik2cm]

@@christianhegemann1911 the majority of French soldiers were from French colonies. The ex-ss troops were trained in guerilla warfare and were used as such.

[@TheHylianBatman]

The Spanish are just something else.

[@joseo.5721]

I'll bet the blue division got a shit load of iron crosses ! A Veteran.

[@justod1117]

I believe they were one of the most condecorated foreign division.

[@gutzzgutzz6795]

They got their own medal personally comissioned by Hitler..the only one he personally comissioned during the entire war.

[@pikminyoshi66]

Holà Jose, Yes, and also they received a lot of wooden crosses in the 20,000 copies...it’s easy d"pin a knock medal on a moron who fights for others and who is not able to fight to win back the lost Spanish territories against the brave English in 1704. I’m a little hard, but it’s a fact!! Saludos

[@joseo.5721]

@@pikminyoshi66 even today you have foreigners fighting for other countries, example you got Americans fighting for Ukraine against Russia, look at the French foreign legion, they got people from all over the world fighting for France, during the American revolution the British had hessian (germans) on their side who knows why people serve and die for other nations, I guess thats just the way it is, I admire the blue division, but thats just me. A Veteran.

[@MorganSullivan]

@@joseo.5721 There were also Spanish fighting alongside Americans...

[@modelistonthego6744]

Con dos cojones! I knew an old man that fought in Krasni Bor. He told my father that they ended up using the weapons of the Russian soldiers when they run out of ammo. He told that the last night they drunk, eat and fuck everything around and that they prepared to die, but the next morning the Germans had to call them and tell them to stop. They not only defended their post but also wanted to advance east.

[@Raider19582]

I never knew that...great video

[@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment]

Respect

[@OsOQRT]

My great uncle on my grandmother's side of the family fought for Franco in Spain and went on to join the fight against communism with this division. He only favored my grandmother because everyone else cut him off in the family.

[@fgcasey]

He had a wise and just family

[@SenorQuichotte]

That was fascinating.

[@ldv1452]

The Blue Division also included a small number of Portuguese (estimates vary between 100 to 500).

[@angelas7356]

Correcto 👍

[@manu8285]

Batallón Viriato??

[@johncarter449]

@@manu8285 Os Viriatos

[@joaopedrosa7840]

Penso que seriam mais portugueses

[@pablolimbo3195]

~74

[@angelas7356]

Lo curioso es que también lucharon republicanos españoles en el bando aliado, la división leclerc la componían un gran número de españoles que casualmente fueron los que entraron primero en París liberando su ayuntamiento. También en el desierto frenaron el avance de rommel cubriendo la retirada inglesa y muriendo en combate la mayoría. Los españoles sabemos morir muy bien 😅

[@pikminyoshi66]

los españoles, por desgracia, saben muy bien cómo morir por los demás...los españoles de la 2ª DB fueron más eficaces que los del Div. Azul los hechos de "arma no son comparables, sólo serían las hazañas de la novena compañía, la famosa "Nueve" que los historiadores españoles olvidan citar... Por qué? porque no hay nostalgia que explotar en los vencedores, han pasado página! Saludos desde Francia a los apasionados

[@marycopeland4049]

I salute your Country.

[@pikminyoshi66]

@@marycopeland4049 Hi Mary, a little hello from France!

[@poldoaguirrelopez8179]

Republicanos hubo en la división azul, y muchos. Eran prisioneros en España y fue una manera de redimirse y recuperar la libertad.

[@zenonlopezwallace568]

Eso es una verdad historicamente demostrada.

[@tonimarquez84]

Katiuska era una joven rusa, que habitaba a orillas del Volklhov; y una triste mañana de otoño, vio pasar la División Azul. Es un ángel que va cabalgando cabalgando con brío y valor va cantando las tristes historias de una guerra que ya terminó. Primavera lejos de mi Patria primavera lejos de mi amor primavera sin flores y sin risas primavera a orillas del Wolchow. Y sus aguas que van al Ladoga van cantando esta triste canción canción triste de amor y de guerra canción triste de guerra y amor. Cuando ebrio avanza el enemigo y con vodka ataca sin valor rasga el aire más fuerte que la metralla las estrofas de mi cara al Sol. Cara al Sol, canción antigua y nueva cara al Sol, es el himno mejor cara al Sol y morir peleando que mi Patria así me lo pidió. Si en la lucha yo quedara roto marcharía a la Legión de Honor montaría la Guardia de los Luceros formaría junto al mejor. Montaría la Guardia de los Luceros formaría junto al mejor.

[@NihilistSolitude]

Blue division song in Spanish for those curious about this post

[@DaveSCameron]

Beautiful and many thanks for posting *

[@edgardoromero9607]

La poesía española de soldados de la división azul combatiendo junto a Nazis para masacrar millones de personas en toda Europa, qué poético!!

[@tonimarquez84]

@@edgardoromero9607 Combatieron en Rusia contra el comunismo, no en Europa. Hay que leer un poquito más.

[@shorejiggingreunion6893]

@@tonimarquez84 murieron como perros fascistas, igual que sus homólogos alemanes, bajo el yugo implacable del Ejército Rojo

[@josephbingham1255]

Nice Video. Also see National Bureau of Economic Research Spain in WW2 for the American oil embargo's effect - pressuring Spanish neutrality and withdrawal of the Blue Division from Russia. The Battle of Britain 1969 film was made with the help of the Casa-2 111 Spanish manufactured aircraft derived from the Heinkel 111 and utilized in the Ifni War 1957-1958. Also the Hispano Buchon derived from the Messerschmitt Bf109.

[@josephbingham1255]

@X x Gracias. I have made the correction to Spanish derived CASA-2 111.

[@josephbingham1255]

@X x Gracias. I added the Buchon derived from the ME Bf109 to my comments.

[@edgardoromero9607]

Los camiones Chraysler y GM de Usa los usaron los Nacionalistas con conbustible made in Usa.

[@archieletsyouknow5508]

Much support

[@antdte.5523]

Las Escuadrillas Azules(compuesta por cinco escuadrillas) se integraron en el JG-27 y JG-51, combatieron en el frente central y obtuvieron 175 derribos enemigos seguros. Los pilotos españoles, NUNCA combatieron al lado de sus hermanos de Infantería de la 250 División. Los aviones utilizados por las diferentes escuadrillas fueron; el Bf-109 E, BF-109F2, BF-109 F4, FW-190 A3, y el BF-109 G6. Entraron en combate en Octubre de 1941 y se retiraron en Marzo de 1944.

[@okoboo]

Other interesting volunteers where the SS Legion Wallonien ( Belgium) and the SS Division Charlemagne ( France) this are some other units that fought very hard.

[@josec.blancofernandez1895]

Yes, the Charlemagne Division fought to the end in Berlin.

[@tonyg-2jz82]

Ya but those are all well known divisions. Hardly anyone knew about the Blue division as it fought under the Wehrmacht which any other foreign unit mainly was used as Waffen SS

[@tonyg-2jz82]

They had units even from Russia itself, far more interesting then Belgians, Dutch, Danes, or Frenchman as they were all western countries. But the eastern countries divisions were brutal and less well known. Even a Muslim Bosnian division

[@damedavidfrith55]

Another 5⭐️ vlog very interesting