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Operation BARBAROSSA
Operation Barbarossa was the name given to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia on June 22nd 1941. Barbarossa the largest military attack of World War Two.three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. -
RUSSIA IS GUILTY
Ramon Serrano Suñer, Foreign Minister of Spain, arranged recruiting volunteers to fight Stalin on Soviet soil. His synthesis of the political situation was the next, as expressed in a speech from the balcony of the General Secretariat of the Movement, located in the Madrid Alcala street address Russia is guilty -
General Muñoz Grandes
General Muñoz Grandes and his Spanish staff flew to Berlin, as the rank and file of the Spanish Volunteer Division -
Spanish Blue Division Arrives to Germany
Spanish Battalions began arriving at the Grafenwöhr training grounds near Bayreuth in Bavaria -
Spanish Blue Division Training
28 Jul – 19 Aug 1941 The 250th (Blue) Division underwent intensive training -
The Lenningrad Blockage
As the Russians attacked in the Leningrad area the Germans
The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military operation undertaken by the German Army Group North against Leningrad -
Marching Though Russia
Sep- Oct-1941
The 250th (Blue) Division marched nearly 1,000 km through Poland and Lithuania to Vitebsk in Russia -
First Spanish Blue Division Battle
On the night of 12/13 Oct the II/269 battalion fought the first action of the 250th (Blue) Division Spanish outposts surprised and stopped a Soviet battalion from crossing the Volkhov under cover of darkness at Kapella Nova. The Russians left behind 50 dead and 80 prisoners. -
The Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942
