Spaniards Fighting For Hitler? The Spanish Blue Division (1941-1943)
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024
- Though Spain never officially joined either side in the Second World War, its leader Francisco Franco did authorise the Blue Division, consisting of a total of around 20,000 Spaniards to fight with the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union from 1941 - 1943.
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Glad to see my country appearing so much in your channel!
I really apreciate the fact that you take interest on my country's history. Great video.
My great great uncle fought in the Blue Division. He was young and very anti-communist. He was captured, probably around Leningrad, and sent to a gulag in Siberia for 10 years. He survived and was reunited with his wife in Spain. He lived a quiet life and never spoke about what happened in Russia.
What was his name?
@Autor: Spaniards showing off their exquisite education by returning their visit to Stalin, not fighting for Hitler, fighting against the beast. There is no such term as nationalist associated with Franco, it was the national side, simply, national and decent people, the rest a horde of Bolshevik murderers and common criminals.
HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL FRANCO SAID
"....WHERE EVER I AM THERE WILL BE NO COMMUNISM " WHICH IS A BEAUTIFUL THING ..YOUR GREAT, GREAT UNCLE DID HIS HONORABLE DUTY NOT ONLY DID HE SAVE SPAIN FROM STALINISM HE SAVED SPAIN FROM THE FREE MASONIC OCTOPUS ..THE SPANISH PEOPLE HATED STALIN. DURING SPANISH CIVIL WAR STALIN SENT DREADED N.K.V.D. AGENTS ..THEY LIQUIDATED REPUBLICANS, SOCIALISTS, ANARCHISTS, LIBERALS, AND ANY ONE WHO GOT IN THERE WAY. THEY DID THIS SO THE REPUBLICAN SIDE WAS DOMINATED BY STALIN. HAD THE REPUBLICANS WON THE CIVIL WAR SPAIN WOULD HAVE BECOME A STALINIST - COMMUNIST STATE. WHO KNOWS HOW MANY GOOD PEOPLE OF SPAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED. ALSO STALIN SENT OVER WORLD WAR 1 BIPLANES. THE GERMANS, AND ITALIANS SENT OVER MODERN WORLD WAR TWO MONOPLANES . THE RUSSIAN BIPLANES WERE NICK NAMED THE " FLYING DESK " IN OTHER WORDS THE NATIONALIST SIDE WON THE AIR WAR AND REPUBLICAN SPANISH PILOTS WERE DESTROYED. SO ONE COULD SEE WHY THE SPANISH BLUE DIVISION WENT TO THE VERY COLD DURING WINTER EASTERN FRONT AS VOLUNTEERS..!!!! AND THEY YOUR GREAT, GREAT UNCLE INCLUDED , PUT A REAL HURT ON THE COMMUNIST - RUSSIAN FORCES..VIVA ESPANA !! DOWN WITH STALINISM!!
Hitler apparently considered the Blue Division as on par with Germany’s best divisions and praised the Blue Division for their fighting prowess and bravery.
Quote from Hitler:
“To troops, the Spaniards are a crew of ragamuffins. They regard a rifle as an instrument that should not be cleaned under any pretext. Their sentries exist only in principle. They don't take up their posts, or, if they do take them up, they do so in their sleep. When the Russians arrive, the natives have to wake them up. But 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 neighbours in their sector”
From Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944 His Private Conversations
This sounds more a critic from a Major who is disapointed by their best « Mercenaries » because they are not cleaning their room barracks, smell.
« Soldiers! What is that smell?! Where is the discipline?! Why your bed is not made already »
-Ay, calmate coronel, let us sleep, more we sleep more we have the energia to fight the communistas! »
@DCM88 I did not write de response, just copied from Quora. Fixed ;) Viva España
An book i do know that mentions that about poles and the Spanish is the osprey publishing elite series Spanish blue division 1941-1943. It said the same thing you said but also mentions poland
@DCM88 I didn't bow about the last part about the monarchy and austro Hungarian empire
@DCM88 and the Luteran and protestant inquisitions made Torquemada look like an angel
Great video, great channel. Greetings from Spain 🇪🇸
Muchas gracias tio!
Really from which province are you I'm from Toledo
An asturian living in Madrid 🖖🏼
@@martindiaz6481 really in what part of Madrid are you living in
It's 'La' Falange Española.
Alright big brains, Fingers to us proles.
FET de las JONS
@@IesuDulcisMemoria *y de las JONS
@@IesuDulcisMemoria the original one was FE de las JONS
Let’s be honest history with Hilbert is as underrated as the Dutch are in world history.
You are far too kind - and is that even possible?
Get that big Dutch salami out of there.
@@AholeAtheist Salami? Rookworst*
As long as you don't over spam the Dutch anthem running gag, this channel is awesome!
Honesty is subjective as is your comment but thanks, #Portugal
I wish more documentarys about more modern Spanish history existed
Kevin Booth same
I didn't know that the Spanish sent fascist expeditionary force to the east, thank you very much, very educational.
Glad to see you're still up loading even with all the restrictions on history channels on RUclips, keep it up mate
Spanish force...You can't classify them as fascist.
@@ATH420 One can classify them as anything from The Losers to The Usurpers, but the very fact they were Spanish will remain .
@@DaveSCameron Losers? Usurpers? Wtf are you talking about
And we're told there was no less than 250k of the Blues. Volunteering much like the International Brigade in the Civil War.
@@DaveSCameron You have no idea on this subject. Educate yourself then talk.
Spain is an interesting story when it comes to the World War II era
If that was one division imagine the difference Spain could have made by formally entering the war
Pope the Spanish army was too weak to protect Spain from an allied invasion
@@hugohom2280 The Wehrmacht would have had a large presence in the country because of Gibraltar, Spain was geographically a very important nation for the axis as it also provided another access point to Africa. Germany and even Italy would have protected Spain for the Spanish as with Gibraltar under Axis control the Royal Navy wouldn't have been able to access the Mediterranean , leaving Italy in a much less vulnerable position as it was in our timeline.
Pope if Italy couldn’t protect Italy and Germany couldn’t protect Normandy they would have no chance at defending Spain
@@hugohom2280 Italy couldn't protect itself because the Royal navy dominated the Mediterranean. Germany couldn't protect Normandy because 75% of their army was on the Eastern front and they had no reinforcements nearby. In the Event of an invasion of Spain Italy's forces would be able to come to their aid as an invasion of Italy would have to come from Suez, meaning the British and Americans would have to ship troops and supplies right around the African continent. Germany would have their own divisions stationed in Spain but also be backed up by the regular Spanish army which would as Hilbert says be comprised of many veterans. Furthermore the allies would only have to option of invading from the North West in Galicia or South West, which would be incredibly dangerous due to the close proximity of enemy held shorelines. As Portugal were Axis sympathisers they would not ally with the British and the Americans so that wouldnt be an option. The only clear path of invasion would be for the North West. not a very expansive land mass that can be easily garrisoned.
Congratulations if you actually read that entire rant
Asier Linazasoro read my prior comment, the Spanish army wouldn’t necessarily need to be Spain’s main line of defence and Germany had more than enough K98ks to equip the Spanish (which were already used by the Spanish army historically). In 1942 the Spanish army had 750000 troops in the field that’s not a small army by any definition. Countries like Hungary, Romania and Finland almost exclusively relied on German arms. Also remember the Blue division was an SS division (Wehrmacht*), all SS divisions (Wehrmacht*) were supplied directly by Germany no matter if they were from France, Wallonia, Sweden or Spain
My great grandma's from the Canary Islands. It's cool to learn more about Spain
Saludos desde canarias
Saludos desde Barcelona
My great grandfathers brother died in krasnybor with 25 years . Nobody cares but I want to say it.
Jaime Marquez De Acuña Riesgo i care
F
RIP the heroes of Krasny Bor
Every white man of good moral character does indeed care, my friend.
Respect
A hero!
Very educational! Thank you Hilbert! Greetings from The Netherlands.
Stalin ordered executions of most captured Spaniards Blue Falange POW Division Azules. But most Soviet officers disobeyed the order.
Why disobey? They're enemies and Stalin had total power?
@@yetga5776 he did not have total Power
@@yetga5776 Most of them were Republicans forced to fight in order to cleanse their «sins» (Republicans = Communist Side) when the Blue Division was dismantled most of them did not return to Spain and lived their lifes in the Soviet Union.
Many captured Spaniards were sent to gulags in Siberia until the 1950s, after which those who survived were repatriated to Spain.
@@rakennavarro2557 In the blue division there wasn't a single Republican, I remind you that only volunteers were there. Franco never forced anyone to go to that war. And the volunteers went to fight against communism.
La División Azul no hizo nada mal
I love your videos. Are you learning Spanish? Your pronunciation is pretty good.
Thank you so much! Aye I know a bit of Spanish from doing my A-Levels :)
@@historywithhilbert yep I was actually very surprised too for your great pronounciation.
@@historywithhilbert if you seem native speaker
My grandpa was a member of Blue Division.
Did he die?
@@adriancampos8640 I wouldnt be here if he had. He took a hit to the throat and was evacuated back to Germany for treatment, and eventually back to Spain. (where he married my Grandma)
His injury gained him a German military pension till the day he died, so he never had to work again.
@@DefiantAML Except for the shot and being there to begin with, I guess he was lucky.
@bbonner422 owned liberal
@Javier De Santiago cringe
And now, the Spanish Republican who fought with the Free French Forces in the French Foreign Legion at El Alamein and Bir Hakeim, and who later liberated Paris as part of the French Army
Yes, the two first tanks which liberated Paris was called Zaragoza and Madrid XD
was he a jew by chance
Might make a video on them too!
@@ryankassulke I don't know for sure, all Sefardí descendants regain Spanish cizitenship in 1924. So it's possible.
Edit: Style.
They weren't Republicans.... All the people classify the incorrectly as Republicans, they have many political ideologies, Basque Nationalist, Anarchist, Catalonian Nationalist, Republicans, Communist.....etc
That was really interesting. Despite being a lot older than you, I learned very little about the Spanish Civil War (I always think "civil war" is a bigger oxymoron than "military intelligence"...). We were taught more about the WWs.
However, I do *just* remember the news of Franco's death coming on the tele out of the blue. I remember calling my parents into the room because it was the first "breaking news" interruption of my TV viewing, and it stood out because it was in black & white. Though I was born a few years before the introduction of colour TV in the UK (something else we have to thank David Attenborough for! At least in part), and despite my dad being _the_ Gadget Man so we had a colour TV, there was still a lot of b&w broadcasting. But the image from Spain was so abysmal it really stood out lol. It was how I recognised that the news was important. They were both very happy with the news and made comments along the lines of hoping the poor Spanish people could live freely from then on. I was too young to truly understand that, but your work on the SCW has brought up deeply-"filed" (rather than "buried") memories. Thanks!
Of course the Anglo would be glad that Spain would fall to their imperialism
Curse be upon your parents
Ironically most people in spain nowadays just want franco back after dealing with the EU
Those who don’t learn the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them
A very true sentiment indeed.
@Joshua Nugent cant wait for the restoration of the monarchy
@@Hideyoshi1991 Or dictatorship of the proloteria. Fuck western style democracy.
@@venga3 It worked between 1922-1991.
Better control the population for their own good, than manuplating them with capitalist lifestyle.
@@venga3 Berlin wall builded for preventing illegal crossings from West Berlin.
Number of political pirisoners in Stalin era was half million, number of famines in the Soviet Union is very low compared to Russian Empire, so they saved millions from starving instead of killing them.
Grow some respect for yourself and learn history by yourself, instead of believing capitalist propoganda.
It's strange how they fought without even being at war
yeah@@venga3
My grandfather served as a volunteer in the German Army within the Spanish Blue Division defending Europe from nasty communism. 🇪🇸 🇩🇪
grateful for his service
Mine too
@@CarlosVicenteEstradaRodriguez A hero!
respect
My great grandfather was too
sin relevo posible hasta la extinción
A friend of mine (very catalan and anti-fascist) was dating a guy and she went to meet his parents at their house. When she walked in the door she found a massive spanish fascist flag and later on a cabinets full of swastikas and several war medals.
To say the least she didn't mention her political views.
nice
"Better dead than red"
-Some Spanish guy named Frankie
*Frankito
Frankhinio ! Iberian repressive fighter....
@DCM88 😊
Pretty sure I've clocked this on a top at our local shopping precinct, amongst the Che Guevara, G.A.P. and Man. Utd. garments.
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world..... 🌙
Francis Frank.
You forgot to mention also the Blue Squadrons!
@Boris-SmiffNo problem mate! In fact the Blue Squsdron was not a single unit, It was composed of five sauadrons that rotated through the Easter Front bweteen September 1941 and May 1943.
I know a man who's grandfather was in the blue division he came back and eventually died because of alcoholism. That was a very big problem has the troops used alcohol for the cold.
how did I miss this video? sure it's only by two days but I've been researching the Blue Division for at least two years now. Speaking of which, I had no idea that the majority who stayed behind were falangists. great video as always Herbert.
The Legend.of the spaniard soldiers...a nation of conquerors anda the greatest soldiers that the world ever seen....
My great uncle fought in the blue division. My grandfather escaped to Britain fought for the Allie’s. Both of them brave men proud to be a descendant.
Would be great to do a series about foreign volunteers in the german army/SS divisions during WW2.
I might actually look into that in the future
Le Macaron
Mark Felton Productions has many videos about that but unfortunately it is all narration and black and white footage. I'd love to see Hilbert make his own version
@@historywithhilbert The British Freikorps is pretty interesting and a book by the Marquis of Londonderry called Ourselves and Germany holds some secrets about what the English actually wanted.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Vane-Tempest-Stewart,_7th_Marquess_of_Londonderry
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War#:~:text=The%20Phoney%20War%20(French%3A%20Dr%C3%B4le,invaded%20Germany's%20Saar%20district.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Maule_Ramsay
You may be will do a video about Gotfried Feder and his Labour backed economic system took on by Hitler which separated the NSDAP from the plethora of other German parties of the time? You make a good editor.
spanish and russian in one video, well done hilbert....
Franco didn't sent the army not because of fear from the British but because the country was. truly devastated after the civil war...check the facts. It any case, well done.
It was because of fear of the British.
@@fantasia55 who in their right mind would fear the british?
@@alexanderlarsson776 certainly not Muslim immigrants
well that applies to the whole of western europe that has become so fkin soft and complacent...@@fantasia55
Thank you for not censoring the video
The Falange were not modelled on the Nazis at all. It was modelled on Italian fascism but was less severe. Franco did not use the Falange to unite the disparate Nationalist factions. In fact he eliminated the Falange by merging them with another group. He also made sure that the Falange leader remained in enemy hands where he was executed. You say the Roman Catholic Church wanted the Blue Division to return? I believe you mean the Spanish Catholic hierarchy.
Big fat lies, same on you.
Falangism was kidnapped by Franco and turned into fascism
@@venga3 The Falange was amodelled after the italian Fascism party, if you find a meaningfull way to say that that "Italian fascism but was less severe" excusez-moi, but I don't get it at all. Fanco didn't eliminate the Falange by merging with others, just give their members Ministries, the most relevant to enforced their program especially. Not really a workable way to reduce power in my book. An the plattorm of the Party was fundamental in the redaction of "Las Leyes Fundamentales del Movimiento Nacional" (The Fundamental Law of the National Moviment) the constititution of short, lowercase intended, use during the whole dictatorship. So I can and I will answer your slander.
@@venga3 I found your argumental scale a bit flimsy at best, and yourself reconize that Franco used most parafernalia and people (camisas viejas) in key roles, the loyalty to a ruler is suposed at that level (the parties are maded of people so Ministries equals ideology in the making). So I don't think in any capacity Falange was diluted in the slightest, but play a central stage as political family and ideology in the spanish goverment, if not untill the end of the dictatorship atleast until the Stabilization Plan of 1959.
@@venga3 tu eres tonto
The blue division may had a members which were heroes and I’m proud of that.
But the common troops sadly were crazy, just like 1950-80's era (Cold war) Soviet Union.
I’m Spanish and I’m proud of the good sided blue division.
¡Viva España!
You sound like a cuckold liberal shamed of fascism. Yes, they were proud fascist, so? Fascism is good
Tom misaki Fascism isn’t good. Communism either.
@@pdlr3 are you a homosexual liberal?
? We are not talking about genders/sex
Anyways, we're different with different opinions, it's better to not fight about this.
Greetings from La Rioja, Spain.
We spanish have a history of been great warriors
You need to research about La Nueve, they were Spanish republican troops riding tanks to liberate Paris from the Nazis, they were in fact the first ones getting there, good video Gilbert,carry on man!
An elderly couple in Asturias actually told me about this when I was in Spain - I should make a video on it!
you should and I'm sure it will be very welcomed, the countdown is on ;), you will have my like :)
There weren't Republicans, they have many political ideologies, classify them as Republicans is incorrect.
@@ATH420 se refiere a que se exiliaron de la españa franquista tras la guerra, ahí había desde anarquistas hasta ciertos grupos de derecha opuestos a Franco, pasando por toda la escala intermedia
@@staringgasmask en el comentario no se refiere a nada, los clasifica a todos como republicanos cuando no era así.
It's La Falange Española
Battle of Krasny Bor can be played as Spanish blue division in Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
Los españoles no lucharon por los alemanes.. Luchaban contra el comunismo,que en esa epoca no les faltaban motivos para culparlos de la guerra civil..
Muy cierto, también por devolverle al favor a Hitler, pero sí, sobre todo para luchar contra la lacra comunista que aún insiste en invadir nuestras vidas
@DCM88 Cierto pero dudo que muchos tuvieran esa visión de "guerra racial" que ni los italianos tenían en su mayoría, ademas su juramento al llegar a Alemania se cambio de lealtad a hitler a jurar en una lucha contra el comunismo
En realidad el comunismo no pintaba un carajo en españa hasta que franquito la armo gorda.. De 417 escaños, los comunistas se llevaron 17, y ni siquiera todos eran "estalinistas" sino comunistas domesticos que no querian saber nada de lo sovietico...En italia los comunistas tuvieron muchisimo mas poder e italia nunca se volvio comunista... Ni siquiera despues de la guerra, cuando los comunistas italianos arrasaron... Ironicamente, el comunismo solo cogio traccion en españa "gracias" a paquito.
que yo sepa los comunistas eran parte de un partido democrático y se presentaban a las elecciones de manera legítima, al igual que los partidos de derechas, monárquicos, republicano-conservadores o socialistas, y ni siquiera tenían una mayoría significativa, de hecho eran de los menos votados hasta la polarización ideológica que se dió en toda europa. Y que yo sepa la guerra no empezó porque los comunistas montasen un golpe de estado con ayuda del ejército, si tan en contra estaba franco de los comunistas que se hubiese presentado a las elecciones no te jode
@@pablocortina9245 el golpe de estado se hizo cuando se hizo el pucherazo.. Si eso te parece democracia tu mismo. Estaria bien que estudiaras los 2 lados y sus motivos para ver que los malos no son tan malos ni los buenos tan buenos..
Franco Spain is interesting, I have a few star pistols from the time
Kevin Booth post vids plz
Hitler: Come to the war Spain
Spain: I don't think so
Interesting topic.
Thank you!
Yes
Interesting topic. Well done
The SS troops never fought alongside Spanish troops, they only received some help near the flanks of the sectors of the two forces, when some of the 8,8 cm Flaks of the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division, fired on Soviet troops. They where expecting an attack in their sector so they couldn't help a lot.
thank you for showing the world a little of our history, may the netherlands and spain have a good relationship
The original idea of using Molotovs as antitank weapon was spaniard ,it works very well against gasoline tanks like t-26 in spanish civil war,thats why soviet union make t-34 diesel ,making him more safety against fire.
Also because finnish soldiers used the molotovs in the Winter War, where the name comes from, when Molotov said that the satchel explosive were "aperitives", the finnish said "then we'll get the coctails"
*_“Nobody Expects The Spanish Blue Division !!!”_*
My uncle served in the Blue Division, I don't know much except that he was in a soviet prison camp till stalin died. A true hero of a real war
@Harvey Davis Martinez for helping the nazi regime
@@peterjerman7549 you know
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Love your YT channel, great job!! Cheers from Spain!!
la mejor infantería del mundo es la española nacional , la segunda la infantería republicana española , y luego , el resto , que 5000 españoles provocaran mas de 20 mil muertes a los sovieticos y destruyeran la mitad de sus tanques solo con armamento ligero , demuestra que aun siendo en menor número , un soldado español vale por 10 de cualquier nación
Ciertamente. Considero a los romanos y luego a los polacos los mejores tras ellos.
@@holabuenas7200 romanos? espero no hables de los italianos sjsjjs
@@shermyhda4351 romanos del imperio romano. Está bastante claro
La division azul fue decimada la verdad.
@@ricardopontes7177 decimada? ok
Am I the only one who wants Hilbert to do an emu war video just so that he has to pronounce all the names in an Australian accent?
Brave and noble men.
The spanish blue division shows that we may have lost our empire, but not our honor and will to fight. Greetings from Barcelona
As Iberian Descendent, I feel proud, VIVA FRANCO
Impressive! Will you do next with the LVF (french volunters légion) and the division Charlemagne ???
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!!!
You made an error with the flag: that's a monarchist version of the Spanish flag, not the Francoist flag which carries an eagle.
Nice!
Cheers man!
i have heared from a relative of one of the "volunteers" about the way he got sent into the division: during their mandatory military service they were lined up and a general went: you go, you don't, you go, you don't, and so on. So most of them probably didn't choose to join.
My grandfather (my father's father) fought in the Blue Division, while he died when I was too little, I could see some WW2 memorabilia. I despise the cause he fought for, but I admire his courage (and on a personal note, I am glad he went back here).
On the trivia side, Blue Division's soldiers used to act more humanely towards Russian people and there are documented some good-willed gestures towards the Jewish population that still lived in the occupied territories. Both things angered a lot the Germans, btw.
My grand father also fought in the DA, and for a great cause in my book, he fought communism!
Communism bullsh*t, they were fighting alongside Hitler.
How can you despise and admire at the same time? Nice going virtue signaling to strangers on the internet by disrespecting you own family.
I respect your grandfather for what he did and what he fought against more than you ever will. No exceptions.
bbonner422 really? exactly how do you "take responsibility" for your grandmas cousin actions during war?
So ... you are comunist?
The flag used in the minute 2:27 isn’t the dictatorship flag, it is in fact the flag of the First Spanish Republic of the XIX century. The crown used is different to the monarchy/dictatorship one.
This isn't very known, thanks for making this video
Hilbert flexing on us with perfect pronounciation
Lo más bonito de este mundo es ser español y estar todos cogidos de la mano como hermanos que somos
¡ARRIBA ESPAÑA! 🇪🇸
Sueco o español, hay que eligir
@@Neferu35 jajaja
Very interesting. Spain has always had good warriors, dating back to the Celt-Iberians.
The Blue Division did nothing wrong
They were a bunch of Nazis lmao they did a lot wrong.
@@ArabLenin >They were anticomunists not nazis
@@luisusero8507 I'm pretty sure they were fascists
@@TheManinBlack9054 Spanish fascism was very different. That fascism comes from the idea of Spaniesh Empire. They were Christians Catholics fighting against atheist communism. They call themselves crusaders
It is quite normal that the performance of the Spanish troops were higher than average. It was composed by volunteers (they wanted to go and fight the communists) with significant military and combat experience. Despite Spain has always had a very successful infantry tradition, it is a bit naive to claim that Spanish soldiers were better than others just for the fact of being Spaniards. I can imagine that in 1943, there were very few willing German soldiers in the east front.
Es un ángel que va cabalgando
Cabalgando con brío y valor
Va cantando las tristes histórias
De una guerra que ya terminó
Primavera lejos de mi patria
Primavera lejos de mi amor
Primavera sin flores y sin risas
Primavera guerra en el 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
Atacando con vodka y sin valor
Rasga el aire mas 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 en la legión de honor
Montaría la guardia de los luceros
Formaría junto al mejor
Montaría la guardia de los luceros
Formaría junto al mejor
Song is Primavera. It used Katushka Melody to mock the Soviets.
Based.
Doomentio RUclips didn't notify me of this reply 🤔
@@enovos3138 - RUclips is not very based. ARRIBA ESPAÑA.
caca al sol
Btw there was Spanish volunteers fighting for Soviets. Mostly communists escaped to Soviet Union after defeat in Civil war.
Spazis
Narniards
Wait no
Omg how did you thought about that?
Narniards sounds like Narnians lol quick get Aslan to help us!
Beign mostly Spanish I will never get over the fact Hitler killed so many innocent civilian men women and children instead of just leaving the casualties to the soldiers. Amazing soldiers fighting for genocidal fascist 😔
Those people were really dedicated
Great video
Do you have anything planned for when you hit 200 000 subscribers?
Very informative!!!
These are heroes for many spaniards like me
The Nazis bombed the city of Guernica, they didn't "test blitzkrieg" on it.
The 6th army wasn't encircled on the 2nd of February 1943, that's when the fighting for Stalingrad ended, the encirclement came much earlier.
The nazis.....you mean the German army .....not every German soldiere was a nazi
What I've tried to understand is exactly how Gen. Franco managed to meld the Carlists with La Falange. The Falange was expressly a revolutionary party that sought to create a national syndicalist state, while the Carlists by their nature favored more distributed power, away from a centralizing state. I get that prior/during the Spanish Civil War, La Falange and Carlists would find common cause against the Republic's anti-clerical policies and pro-Soviet stance, but it just didn't seem like these factions' worldviews would allow them to remain amalgamated following the war.
No luchábamos por Hitler, luchábamos contra el comunismo, una de las mayores pandemias a nivel global que no se ha conseguido erradicar.
Hi Hilbert, here are some ideas for future topics.
1: Sawny Bean. 2: Sectarianism outside of Ireland, in Liverpool and Glasgow. 3: Gay rulers, like, William of Orange, Alexandrer the Great, Edward II ect. 4: The Border Reivers.
Jaime el Batallador from the kingdom of Aragon, a gay (at least what his wife said) who fought for Christianity.
La* Falange Española
One error: It weren't only Spanish but Portuguese too about 1000 men.
Tiago Rodrigues yeah,have you piece of cake.
They where actually,less than 100.
Have it ur way.
U where always the “pet” of the UK.
@@franciscocastro7916 Show me a proof, I have a lot of them, and you are Portuguese or spanish?
@@tiagorodrigues179 seriously stop being simps for perfidous albion
@@franciscocastro7916 Sólo fueron 76 portugueses
Portuguese were friends with the bastards english in the past history
and you several times betrayed Spain
we should have invaded Portugal
My great grand pop fought for francko and in the blue division. I always loved him and i dont fkin care what yall say.
If not for the weather this would've sounded like a good vacation plan.
I've got to hand it to the Spaniards, they weren't râciã||у iñdôçtrináted like the Germans thus they were far less brūtå| to Soviet civi|ians. They fought valiantly but lacked discipline. Nevertheless, they were still foreign invãdêrs in my Motherland!
Falange was ideologically republican, but were dissapointed with the spanish republic
6:20 the russian soldier was holding a ak47 which wasnt a thing at the time
Have you thought that it could be a time traveler?!
Dude, that was a drawing. Let it be..
@@karimmella4648 still something to consider , why would someone even draw it in the first place
Great video. Just so you know though, the coat of arms in the Flag is not historically accurate as it's the one of the republic in the bicolour flag.
The spaniards always on the german side,
this has already been seen throughout history.
And the Germans on the Spanish side. As the German Lansquenets did serving in the Spanish Imperial armies in the XVI and XVII centuries, along the Spanish Tercios...
Hi just discovered this channel. Could you please do a history of Finland?
there where also spaniards in France, and they where crucial for the defense of Paris, but after that,they were put in refugee camps, where men were separated from the elderly, women, and children by the goverment of France. Sadly, they became forgotten heroes
🎵🎶🎶Es un ángel que va cabalgando
Cabalgando con brío y valor
Va cantando las tristes histórias
De una guerra que ya terminó
Primavera lejos de mi patria
Primavera lejos de mi amor
Primavera sin flores y sin risas
Primavera a orilla de 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
Atacando con vodka y 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 en la legión de honor
Montaría la guardia de los luceros
Formaría junto al mejor
Montaría la guardia de los luceros
Formaría junto al mejor
The blue division was composed by spanish and portuguese soldiers
Great videos on Weimar and Henry VII for A Level history, only thing is some of the playlists don’t have some videos in, would you be able to add them? Thanks.
They fought against communism, most people in Spain blamed communism as the cause of the civil war in Spain, in addition to this they fought for food, many of them volunteered because they would have food, in Spain there was not much to eat in that time, and above all they fought for a reason, to show Germany that it is not a good idea to invade Spain, (Hitler no longer liked Franco, he betrayed him, he demanded to stay with parts of Russia in exchange for helping Germany, this he did To anger hitler and he had in mind to invade Spain, he wanted to dismiss Franco and put someone he trusted in his place, it is said that Agustin Muñoz Grandes was chosen for this), Muñoz Grandes knew that Spain was no match for Germany and much less in those times, Spain had a large part of its army imprisoned, it had just come out of a civil war and there was a lot of hunger and shortages, it was an easy snack for Germany or for any other strong adversary, he wanted to do See Hitler that it would not be so easy to invade Spain and perhaps he would not do this to assume costs, time and men, these were the reasons for that division, General Agustin Muñoz Grandes is the only non-German general decorated with the cross of Iron (I think), he always said to his soldiers in Russia defend this piece of land as if you were defending Spain damn it, not a step back, here you die or prevail, in short, he loved Hitler's movement, he always said he was a Nazi , sympathetic to this, but above all he loved his country, he did not want Spain to end up invaded by Germany
My grandfather fought in the spanish blue division.You got many things wrong about the real men who went there. First of all, 1/3 of the initial group of men who had to met in the German city of Wiesbaden to join the German Wehrmacht, already disappeared in the first village the train stopped in France, because they were republicans who just joined to make it out of spain and avoid prosecution. Most of the men were not military veterans as you state, that is false. And it is because my grandfather was a civil war veteran and he did not ask to go to Russia. He was forced to go under threat of expulsion from the army with all the benefits that had at the time (food and medicine for you and your family). The biggest group of men were guys who were jobless and looking for something to feed their families with. The second biggest group were convicts who looked for a sentence reduction or even avoid jail for their crimes, The 3rd biggest group were fascists who in deed wanted to fight communism as you correctly said, and in the last and smallest group, you had the professional soldiers. My grandfather was Artillery Lt. there, for his words before his death, you can be sure none of them had any intention of being there, had absolutely no hate for Russians and were just seeking for a way to survive them and their families, just a really small part of them actually enjoyed fighting communism.
De hecho los divisionarios ayudaron a civiles y se tirotearon con soldados alemanes por la defensa de personas inocentes en Polonia y Ucrania como los dos países más destacados. En esas tierras gozan de una popularidad mucho mayor de la que jamás tuvieron en España
Spanish is a beautiful language what's with your lisp. Franco sent the blue division to the Eastern Front behind the German lines to open Tapas bars to help the Spanish economy
@DCM88 I'm Mexican American not Spanish. We all have different tastes.
The Spanish missionary planted grapes for their wine, olive & fig trees, also brought pigs, horses and cattle to California. In the middle of the 19th century French, Italian, Spanish and Greek developed both wineries and olive orchard for Olive oil. They brought their food and culture with them. Even today pocket of Basque, Spanish, Italian and Greek areas where you can find good food, not the heavy americanized stuff.
@DCM88 you american?
do a video on the EME compagnie regiment de marche du tchad please they have never gotten any love