It ended up being used as a testing ground for the new war materials Germany had created- mainly the planes they had designed to be part of the Luftwaffe
When the Spanish refugees claimed they could fight against the fascists France laughed at them, after France fell they were the first ones to enter Paris and the government hid that fact, they said it was only French and English men. Apart from that they were promised that because they helped in the war the allies would take Spain back from the fascists and of course it never happened...
Heya, im here one year later. They did were on the parade, as they had formed an entire armored division (ofc under the french army) idk bout admiting it or not, but they were definitively there.
thats the biggest load of shit I've ever heard. we celebrate the Spanish's involved in the liberation of France every July 14th. They've been marching in the parade since I was a lil kid from what I can remember.
It was never promised, at least not in writing. What was promised was to force to Spain to come back to some kind of democracy far from communism that Spanish did not.
One of the things Iike most about this channel is the tendency to post videos on some of the more underexplored topics. Some of the one you don't see a lot of videos about like this or the British dark ages.
Norwalk Fascism, which Franco believed, believes in a centralized economic planning and denounces the individual. These are not right wing beliefs these are left wing beliefs. What universe did YOU come from?
History With Hilbert Also you have a good Spanish pronunciation. Just one thing; is not "Azul Legión" is "Legión Azul" but overall is a very good video with very accurate information
the story of Iceland in World War II is the uk invaded in 1940, everyone was working for the british building roads, house and seaports, freedom form denmark in 1944, and more. We made a lot of money from the war and i call it the good wars p.s. great video
South,Central America,South East Asia....there they were intelligent.They rip the countries,they took their wealth,destroyed their cultures and convert them to ''catholicism''.Now the catholic church is ruling these countries,contributing to the wealth of these peadophiles,satanists,zionists
Leode Siefast I definitely do not agree with naziism, it’s a horrible thing and I absolutely hate it, but he fought with it bc he ya know, lived under Franco and in those times military conscription was forced upon the people. He was forced to go to war and do you know where he ended up, fucking soviet Russia he explicitly told my family before he died a couple yrs ago that he hated the nazis so you can just fuck off
A USSR invasion would have lead to a civil war: a lot of spaniards wouldn't agree but wouldn't do anything, some would agree and some would make guerrillas. But they would lose, I think
@@REYSIM Hispania was among the first few provinces that Rome conquered, yet it was among the latest to fully pacify due to "Spanish resilience" or Stubbornness if you will.
False. The nationalcatholic franquism and the nazism come from the fascism, so its fascism too. In Spain, in the XX century, people from Spain fought against the fascism, they shout that all the time, and people from England, France and other countries came to Spain to figth against the fascism shouting that. Thats the truth. Spain, Germany and Italy were fascist countries.
@@napster1987 Franco's dictatorship was in fact fascist, but no allied forces came to help the republican side, not during the civil war, not after germany fell, not ever.
What Adria Mata said above is correct. Franco was a traditional military dictator who played the Carlists, Falange and others against each other. He needed them in order to acquire power. After he had absolute control he did not need them. Franco followed strict Catholic ideology which did not mix with Falange ideology. Question, do you think when Franco gave the approval for Spanish recruits to join German forces who were fighting the Russians that he did it in order to get rid of some of the Falange. Most of those that went to fight the Russians were Falange members. Like they said in the video, this Spanish unit fighting the Russian lost 70% of there members.
@@a200037 That's because Franco didn't invade neighbours, and by the time Germany fell Spain wasn't at war, so there was no "Republican side", to back. In order to intervene after WW2, the allies would have to invade Spain, which they had absolutely no reason to do.
El Führer habla sobre España y los españoles: Considerados como tropa, los españoles son una banda de andrajosos. Para ellos el fusil es un instrumento que no debe limpiarse bajo ningún pretexto. Entre los españoles, los centinelas no existen más que en teoría. No ocupan sus puestos, pero si los ocupan es durmiendo. Cuando llegan los rusos, son los indígenas los que tienen que despertarlos. Pero los españoles no han cedido nunca una pulgada de terreno. No tengo idea de seres más impávidos. Apenas se protegen. Desafían a la muerte. Lo que sé es que los nuestros están siempre contentos de tener a los españoles como vecinos de sector. Si se leen los escritos de Goeben sobre los españoles, se advierte que no han cambiado desde hace cien años. Extraordinariamente valerosos , duros en las privaciones , pero ferozmente indisciplinados. (conversaciones sobre la guerra y la paz, 4-5 de enero de 1942) Creo que una de nuestras más felices iniciativas fue permitir que una legión española luchase a nuestro lado. En la primera ocasión, condecoraré a Muñoz Grandes con la Cruz de Hierro con hojas de roble y brillantes. Será una buena inversión. Los soldados, sea cual fuere su origen, se entusiasman siempre por un jefe valeroso. Cuando regrese a España, habrá que equipar de arriba a abajo a esa Legión y de manera magnífica, darle parte del botín y algunos generales rusos como trofeos. De esta forma harán una entrada triunfal en Madrid y su prestigio será invencible. (conversaciones sobre la guerra y la paz , 5 de septiembre 1942 a mediodia) España es un país al que es imposible no amar. Los españoles están repletos de grandeza y, en tiempo de guerra, qué valor el suyo. No conozco a un solo alemán que opine de distinta manera. Uno de nuestros primeros jefes regionales de Hannover regresaba de España. No tenia otro deseo que el de volver allí de nuevo. Jamás he encontrado a nadie que no sienta respeto por los españoles (conversaciones sobre la guerra y la paz, 5 de septiembre de 1942 por la noche). Aunque esto es meterme en lo que no me importa,creo que no se debe quebrar la linea cordial y de colaboración alcanzada por ti en relación con los alemanes. Me consta por persona que convive con el Führer diariamente desde hace años y a quien visto no hace 15 días aun en Berlin, cual es el concepto que tiene de ti. En fin, como no me encargo el secreto te diré que se trata del doctor dietrich - el reichpresseführer - que me lo dijo en berlin delante de los her zuhlsdorff y brannweiler. Y fue entonces “ el Führer ha recibido tal impresion directa de muñoz grandes que solo de un general habla de tanto entusiasmo: de el general Dielt el de narwik”. Creo que este éxito no deberia ser juzgado al albur de que otro general causara la misma impresión. Para ello tu has echo en uno de los momentos mas difíciles de nuestra historia, con 18.000 hombres, lo que otros con dos millones no han conseguido para salvar a su país. Y ¡¡Arriba España!! te abraza tu buen amigo y camarada Victor Ruiz de la serna - Carta de Victor ruiz de la Serna a el general Agustin muñoz Grandes www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/archivo-historico/division-azul-espanola/2917954/
@@gustav4298 El modelo de imperio de los ingleses es mejor que el español porque conquistaban la tierra a los nativos americanos y a los que sobrevivieron los metieron en reservas y luego con sus mujeres blancas fundaron ciudades y pueblos por eso Norteamérica es una potencia y domina el mundo
@Acta Non Verba ambos estáis totalmente errados, bueno, "Acta Non Verba" en lo segundo, pues en lo primero perfecto. El Imperio Español si que administró y muy bien además, siempre hablando obviamente en general, todas sus tierras, demasiado bien diría. Lo único que realmente le falló en los tiempos de los Austrias fue Flandes y el estarle regalando prácticamente también otra enormísima fortuna más a los principados alemanes para tenerlos medio contentos allí y que no se metieran demasiado en los asuntos imperiales y siguieran reconociéndole el título de Emperador del Sacro Imperio Germánico Romano. Así que todo el dinero y más se iba en aquella interminable guerra y en lo otro también, hasta arruinarla casi. En los tiempos de los Borbones, al no tener ya aquel pozo sin fondo llamado Flandes, junto a otros pequeños virreinatos y provincias más desperdigadas por Europa que le costaban mucho dinero mantenerlas y renunciando ya definitivamente a ese título de emperador por el de simple rey, la nueva Corona supo centrarse mucho más y mejor en América y en muy pocos años reflotó su casi arruinada economía hasta el punto que incluso llegó a ser más fuerte y solvente que nunca. Hasta muchos ministros de Inglaterra estaban casi arrepentidos por haber obligado a que España renunciara a Flandes. Decían que habían cometido el mayor error de todos, ya que hasta entonces España estaba casi al borde del abismo, casi muerta y al quitarse todas esas cadenas que la tenían completamente atada de pies y manos, resurgió como el Ave Fénix más fuerte que nunca, además de las reformas tan necesarias económicas. Por tanto, por aquellas épocas el Imperio Español tenía la moneda más fuerte, sólida y estable del mundo. Fue una moneda global con la que dominaba el planeta prácticamente, como hoy en día lo pueda ser el dólar estadounidense, del que es hijo precisamente de nuestra antigua moneda. Es decir, el dólar estadounidense es heredera del "Spanish Dollar" como ellos la llamaban y de ahí su propio nombre de American Dollar. Sus primeras monedas de plata de hecho eran las nuestras pero modificándole la cara por la de su presidente de turno, pero con el mismo reverso español, escudo y letras en los bordes. Durante sus primeros años de vida ya como EEUU independiente usaron nuestra moneda tal cual oficialmente para sus propias transacciones, mientras aun estaban terminando de crear la suya propia basada por entera en la nuestra (el dólar hasta hace dos telediarios aun estaba dividida en 8 centavos y no 10 como hoy en día, justo como nuestro antiguo "real de a 8" de plata español), y durante la misma guerra de independencia usaron vales o recibos sellados por nuestro rey acreditando que dichos papeles con el valor que tuviera estaban respaldados por el tesoro real de España y valían para comprar con ellos como si de nuestra moneda de verdad se trataba. De hecho su símbolo $ es sacado del escudo de nuestra moneda donde aparecía nuestras dos columnas de Heracles (Hércules) con una o dos cintas cruzándolas formando una S. De ahí la S y los dos palitos verticales en medio del dólar y por tanto del dinero en general. Es decir, el símbolo de hoy en día del dinero global, al igual que el del dólar americano, sigue siendo la prueba y vestigio de la verdadera primera moneda global del planeta, el peso de plata español. Así que eso de que estábamos arruinados, sobretodo a partir del s. XVIII hasta justo las Guerras de Independencias Hispanoamericanas y Napoleónica es más falso que una moneda de plástico. Fue precisamente a partir de aquellos trágicos sucesos cuando realmente TODOS a ambos lados del Océano Atlántico y Pacífico cuando nos arruinamos por completo, con la destrucción del Imperio Hispánico, por una serie de malísimos reyes borbónicos, sobretodo Fernando VII que fue sin duda el peor de todos con diferencia además, y el mejor de todos ellos Carlos III sin discusión alguna también. Otro aspecto más de la Verdadera historia que nos ha ocultado la propia historia oficial que es meramente anglosajona con el beneplácito del resto de otras naciones más europeas que se han sumado al mismo carro porque les convenían, hasta convencernos a nosotros mismos con el paso de varias generaciones de todas esas sartas de Mentiras (mala administración, atraso tecnológico e industrial, corrupción, etc muy pero que muy alejado de la Verdadera realidad), es que ni un solo imperio en la historia de la humanidad sobrevive tantos siglos siendo además hegemónicas en el mundo, creando casi de la nada en todo un continente entero tantísimo... miles de ciudades enormes y tan sofisticadas y modernas o más que los de la propia Europa, cientos de miles de pueblos, acueductos tremendos, puentes impresionantes, iglesias, catedrales, universidades, imprentas, caminos, calles bien pavimentadas, alcantarillados, todo un nuevo tejido social desde cero, descubrimientos geográficos por todo el globo, fortalezas y baluartes portuarios sin iguales, embarcaciones nuevas casi invencibles, escuelas de marineros y oficiales profesionales pioneras, expediciones botánicas a la altura de las mejores, tecnología cartográfica y náutica puntera (base de las modernas de hoy en día), Derechos de Gente y de Indias (base de los actuales Derechos Humanos Internacional), inventos un par de siglos antes que otras naciones como la máquina de vapor, aire acondicionado, traje de buzo, etc, y encima nosotros con el mayor hándicap todavía de ser universales, no tener un imperio dentro de un territorio delimitado además todo bien juntito por tierra en uno o como mucho dos continentes como hasta ahora el resto de los otros imperios antiguos que nos precedieron, siendo tan brutos, atrasados, corruptos, incivilizados, tan ineptos, tan estúpidos, etc como nos andan poniendo siempre. Ni siquiera tiene la más mínima lógica y sin embargo nos lo hemos tragado todo sin vaselina y sin parpadear siquiera. No señores no, les guste más, menos o nada a quienes sean, la Verdad es tan distinta a cómo nos la han y siguen enseñando que en casi todo hasta es justo opuesta. Y ese imperio se perdió mayormente por otras cuestiones muy distintas a las de la corrupción de la mayoría, ineptitud (bueno, en realidad si se puede decir que también, por parte de los últimos reyes que tuvimos, sobretodo el último en las nefastas decisiones que tomó), mala administración, etc. Nada que ver. Pero para quienes no lo sepan y quieran saberlo, quién mejor que uno mismo para descubrirlo, y para aquellos que no quieran pues que sigan errados si eso les hace sentirse más felices. Allá cada cual con su vida ya que somos libres más o menos, así que mis respetos igualmente. Saludos.
Portuguese volunteers were also part of the "blue division", those portuguese soldiers actually fought in the spanish civil war for the nationalists under the name "Viriatos"
Morocco and Cameroon and 2 french provinces for participation in the war. Doesn’t seem too harsh? Cameroon is a jungle and Morocco is a desert. And the 2 french provinces were Vichy france’s and they were a puppet of Germany. I would’ve given it to Spain.
Ryan de Bruin Iparralde, or the Pays Basque, is on the coast, all the way to Bayonne, and was occupied by the Wehrmacht.☆ Hegoalde (south side) is in Spain.
Ryan de Bruin I think Hitler’s refusal had something to do with the fact that he considered Mediterranean’s inferior and also that he wanted to have the “better”French (and also British) as new allies after the war.
TheKaiman0 the irony of Hitler is how he considered Latins inferior, yet the only major fascists in Europe (apart from him) were Latin (Italy and Spain) and he imported Latin symbols everywhere, from the Latin/Roman salute to the imperial Roman eagle.
What is a shame is France trying to hide the fact that the first unit that entered on Paris was the 9th company, a "French" company with 146 of 160 soldiers being spanish and the first officer that entered on the Paris Town Hall was Don Amado Granell, a spanish Lieutenant and second in command of the company. The first armored vehicles were the España Cañi, Guernica and Ebro but for the propaganda on the photos those names where changed .... What a fucking shame.
General von Richtoffen was in charge.☆ The Basque Republican Army had 500 troops in France, and the Spanish Republican Army liberated Paris...gun emplacements were built on the coast near Bilbao...
History With Hilbert your Spanish pronunciation is flawless, don’t know about grammar, vocab etc but I would class your Spanish as good just from your pronunciation.
I found this video very interesting, nice photos choice IMO, about to watch it again asap cause there are facts I wasn't aware of. And yeah, living by the Pyrenees and the Atlantic Ocean, I can tell you the border between Spain and France was particularly active at this period to say the least. Thank you sir "Nosy Dutchman"! "Silly question" by the way but what about the Portugal during WWII? Still allied to the UK I guess no? TY
Never say "Guérnika" but "Guernika" (stress on the second syllable), but for the event and for Picasso´s masterpiece. Also "Regiment de marche..." If you stress the final e in "marché" you mean "market" instead of "march", that´s what regiments do. I suggest you speak about the Bristish history you know. Cheers, mate. You miss altoghether the "Brigadas internacionales" in the republican side, formed by (real) volunteers from many countries that had a reason to fight in an Europe ridden by dictatorships after the 1929 Crash and Great Depression.
Fantastic video, as always. I'd like to put in a recommendation on perhaps a future video about feudal property law in 12-13th century England. So much of today's UK and even the United States' property and estate law derives from this era. I'd love to hear more about how it all began. History nerds forever!
My great grandfather fought in the Spanish civil war and then came to Finland where he fought in the winter war and possibly the continuation war, I say possibly because he was wounded in Syväri if memory serves me right but I don't know when. That's all I know about him, my grandfather died when I was young, my grandma doesn't live in Finland and my dad newer talks about it and I don't want to ask.
In your introduction, why do you define one side as "the fascists-nationalists-falangists" and the other just as "the republicans"? You forgot to add "the communist-marxists-leninists" for the latter side. That's not very -let's say- objetive and fair from you.
franco was a really good strategic, he dindt want to help hitler because he predicted perfectly the final of the war and how his regime could survive not helping hitler and conversing with usa so he was in contact with usa and so they didnt disturb franco after the war. franco also inform the usa president agains entering in vietnam and he again was correct.
I mean Spain, much like Spain in the first world war, had bugger all, not even manpower due to it's political divisions. if they sided with Germany then they'd be counted as more of an added ball ache than anything else, and Franco kinda got that vibe early on.
It's not like Franco wanted any problems, he was too busy killing his own people. The only reason he sent people to fight was so that the germans wouldn't throw shit at them. Then later on, like the pricks we spanish are, joined the winners side in Paris to prevent being shitted from the allies. Isn't that awesome??!! We spanish don't ever work. War is too much effort, and nationalism/politics is too complicated for them, they'd rather take a cold one in the bar. And they ask me to be proud of my country LOL I'm proud of our soil, but NEVER of my country. They didn't do ANYTHING for Europe.
@The Canadian Crusader Yeah, and while they fought communism they also supported nazi units and wore nazi uniforms. You know what's also a fact? The meeting Franco and Hitler had where they negotiated Spain joining the axis, something that didn't happen because Franco asked for too much and also because we would've needed too much German support since we were still recovering from our own civil war, which started because fascists wanted to... what was it? Oh yeah, "_fiGhT ComMuNisM_". For real, "fighting communism" has basically become an apology buzzword for fascists the same way "fascist" has become a buzzword for SJWs.
Fun fact: I actually live in Madrid in a street that is called Caídos de la Division Azul (Fallen of the blue division). However, because of a law passed with the last socialist government in Spain some years ago (it basically says to get rid of all fascist symbols from the dictatorship from 1939 to 1975), it’s being changed to Memorial 11 de Marzo del 2004 (March 11th 2004 Memorial) referring to the terrorist attack that happened in Madrid that day. The law is called Ley de memoria histórica (Historic memory law or something like that) and causes a lot of controversy among Spaniards because some people (mostly people in the left) argue that we have to get rid of everything related to the dictatorship, like what happened in Italy and Germany, and some other people (mostly people in the right) argue that it’s part of our history and that we have to accept it and leave it like is. This is some proof of the division from the Civil war and the dictatorship that still exists in Spain after over 40 years of democracy.
Great video ! I'm interested in that period of time myself. Unless I missed it, you failed to mention that Russia was just as helpful with the civil war as the Germans. They were just helping out the other side. There's a great movie that stars Teli Sevelas as the commander of a unit on the Russian front. I'll be damned if I can remember the name of the movie !!! I'm really glad to learn about what happened after the civil war ended. That's something that I know little about. It seems that history usually stops then. I'd really love to see more about both the civil war and after as well as the Blue Division too.
The russians were helping themselves for the most. They stole most of the spanish gold reserves... and a bunch of ships too. One would say the russians were pirates and traitors.. and im far from a fascist but one has to admit the facts.
You are Dutch?! I’m a native English speaker and I swore the entire time I was listening to your video I thought you were a native English speaker too. Your accent is perfect. That surprised me.
As a Latino the country of Spain has done vicious things to my people in the past and knowing that they played a part in world War 2 in supporting Hitler wasn't surprising
As a Latino you don’t know your own history , there are a Mexican historian Zunzunegui I recommend you read some books or just watch some interviews on RUclips for stating to know your own history , don’t worry some Spanish have the same problem than you
The battle of krasni bor is a typical Spanish battle more. For example: Cartagena de Indias: 3,000 infantry and 6 ships VS 186 ships, 2,000 cannons and 30,000 British infantrymen. Or also: Battle of San Quintín: 900 Spanish casualties Vs 25,000 French casualties
Great video ! But big mistake. As a frenchmen, I can garante you that the "Deuxime division blindée" of Maréchal Leclerc was made up of free french soldiers. There was only around 150 spanish soldiers, out of 16 000 frenchmen. Its true that the spanish where the 1st to enter Paris though.
Adrian Fuentes That was all show my friend. Just as De Gaulle was allowed to march his Free French Army into Paris first (it was just a sop to the arrogant Frog) with some Spanish nationalists included, it was in fact the Americans, British and Canadians who liberated France and Paris. De Gaulle and his army were just a token, so as the French would not be totally embarrassed.
Leode Siefast no, I'm afraid you're wrong. As you say they were part of the Free French Army. In the front was the second division were most of soldiers were spanish who joined the french army after the spanish civil war. I'm not saying that the reinforcements couldn't have won, I don't know, but it is a fact that the second division alone, against all odds, liberated Paris from the nazis before the others arrived. There is even a park there to honor them. It's called Jardin des combattants de la Nueve. Also, it's very interesting to see how the spanish behaved in the WW2. There are cases of people defending other spanish of the other side because they said they didn't want foreigners to kill them. I encourage you to search on internet.
My nana's uncle fought for the Spanish Republic, went into exile in a French concentration camp, then joined the French resistance and fought to liberate France although not Paris itself, he died of old age in Hendaye near the Spanish border since he had family in Irun (Spanish side of the border) and they would go into France to see him. Funny thing is he had two brothers, both of which fought for Franco in the Spanish civil war, horrible little thing when brothers would kill each other over politics
Spain in World War II was the dumping and testing site of Germany's modern weapons.If Germany has Spain to test his weapon, U.S.A has Philippines in Cold War in Asia during Nixon time(Watergate Scandal).
I'll admit I knew some of the general details about the Spanish Civil War, and WWII; You- however- took it to another level!!! Thanks for the video. :D
I’m not sure about the matter of any Spaniards helping Jewish refugees in Hungary but there was a Colonel and Diplomat to Switzerland from the country El Salvador by the name of Jose Castellano Contreras who, alongside a Jewish-Hungarian diplomat named György Mandl, helped create thousands of forged passports and ultimately coordinating the escape of upwards of 40,000 Hungarian and other Central European Jews. It’s super interesting and here’s the wiki on it en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Castellanos_Contreras
I will tell you one thing about the exiled Spanish Republicans who fought in the French army during WWII. When they fled to France after the Franco regime was established, they were put into French refugee camps and treated like dogs. The French saw them as inferior beings. Well, once France goes to war with Germany, those Republicans enlisted in the Foreign Legion to fight the Germans and get revenge for what they did in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Those Frenchmen who both boasted and repudiated the Spanish republicans cowardly fled from almost all battles and were humiliated and invaded in a few weeks. In a documentary about the Company of Spaniards, a Spanish veteran said: That was pathetic, the French generals and officers did not stop retreating, there no one wanted to present battle to the Germans. Then they were sent to fight with liberated France in North Africa and the French and their anti-Spanish racism despite not liking them preferred to have them on their own troops because they were hardened fighters experienced during the civil war. Once they landed in Normandy, the 9 Company of Spanish Republicans proved to be very efficient, even the Americans were surprised by their high skill on the battlefield, where during a confrontation they captured a multitude of Germans being very few. Even the general who commanded those Germans committed suicide before the disappointment of being defeated and captured by a small squad of men. They were the first to enter and liberate Paris, and the French tried to hide it from public opinion because they wanted to show a false image where the French liberated Paris. After the liberation of Paris they continued fighting for France and throughout Europe until they reached Hitler's Eagle's Nest. After the war they were repudiated and forgotten in France. They were not named in any history book or honored with devotion. Those "republican dogs" as the French called them were an experienced and efficient company of soldiers. And while the vain French were humiliated by the Germans during the invasion of France at the beginning of the war (let's not forget that France was invaded in a few weeks!), The Spanish along with the Americans, English and the rest of the allies were the ones who they liberated France instead of doing it themselves. Today they are honored during the events of the liberation of Paris, but only after numerous historical associations spoke with the government of Paris and France to include them and honor them for the contribution they made in their country.
Spain itself didnt did much but spaniards did a lot... Most suscefull spy in the whole war who saved thousands and thousands of allied lives....codename "garbo"... liberation of paris (most experienced soldiers in the whole allied side, 3+ years of experience), and stopped a russian offensive in the western front while not having tanks and being hugely outnumbered.. There was no fighters during the ww2 that had more combat experience than the spaniards, for obvious reasons...
I read Mexico was a nation that let a lot of Spanish refugees during the Spanish civil war because Europe didn't want to take refugees from Spain. Anybody know about this ?
There were also few filipino mestizos who fought in the spanish blue division all of them were falangist veterans of spanish civil war from the Falange Exterior or Servicio Exterior de Falange for the sake of La Hispanidad however after they fought hard in the eastern front they were amongst have been pulled out by franco disband in 1943 when he negotiate with the allies they have stayed in spain for years can't return to the philippines because of japanese occupation.Some people of spanish descent that i know rarely shared some of the stories how there fathers and grandfathers in the european theatre fought at that time there was this particular person i forgot his name who posted an article about what i believe to be his granduncle who died in the 90's.The story goes they were near in leningrad area at one point had skirmish with the large soviet siberian forces both sides had to used skis because of heavy snow terrain.Stories like this were almost unknown franco hates falangists that's why most of it were left unrecorded and forgotten
Whaaaat?. Franco never asked for the french basc country nor for french catalonia. Who invented this?. Franco did not want to involve Spain in a new war and he had to dance in a thin rope....He send thousands of tons of metals, clothes and weapons to england thru Portugal...
You are wrong in one thing spain never was pro germany only half of spain the ones that helped jews and british pilots to go back to UK where from the republican part actually the frist soldiers to take paris where spanish
The Spanish military aviation in 1940 consisted of Italian and German war residues, the navy was almost non-existent, the army had neither armored vehicles nor tanks, the first panzers IV arrived in 1943, the military industry was little, what could this country do?
spanish civil war was ww2's beta
The Japanese Sino war as well, where Japan was slowly going into China and invading the coast
It ended up being used as a testing ground for the new war materials Germany had created- mainly the planes they had designed to be part of the Luftwaffe
1770s' 1860s' 1940s'... 2020s'?
I'm like 500
When the Spanish refugees claimed they could fight against the fascists France laughed at them, after France fell they were the first ones to enter Paris and the government hid that fact, they said it was only French and English men. Apart from that they were promised that because they helped in the war the allies would take Spain back from the fascists and of course it never happened...
Heya, im here one year later. They did were on the parade, as they had formed an entire armored division (ofc under the french army) idk bout admiting it or not, but they were definitively there.
thats the biggest load of shit I've ever heard. we celebrate the Spanish's involved in the liberation of France every July 14th. They've been marching in the parade since I was a lil kid from what I can remember.
It was never promised, at least not in writing. What was promised was to force to Spain to come back to some kind of democracy far from communism that Spanish did not.
Also they had very bad reputation as criminals during the II world war.
@@michaelaforeman3393 Yes now.. but before..
One of the things Iike most about this channel is the tendency to post videos on some of the more underexplored topics. Some of the one you don't see a lot of videos about like this or the British dark ages.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your support and for sharing this with me!
This is Hilbert, one of the most productive historians :)
verified youtuber?
Apologies for the change in audio quality around the two and a half minute mark - my headset seems to have unplugged itself in this time :/
History With Hilbert Francisco Franco is a left wing dictator. He is not right wing.
Klopt de Italiaanse vlag wel op 1:45??
Voor 1940 wel, Mussolini heeft er in 1943 een adelaar op gezet als ik me niet vergis.
Joshua Hartsough That’s wrong that’s definitely wrong. how could you believe that I don’t understand what universe are you from.
Norwalk Fascism, which Franco believed, believes in a centralized economic planning and denounces the individual. These are not right wing beliefs these are left wing beliefs. What universe did YOU come from?
Spain also provided Germany with mineral resources from Asturias as part of their repayment for supporting Franco
Battle of Krasny Bor:
5,900 Spanish infantry from Blue divison against 38,000 Soviet infantry
and 90 tanks.
Result: Spaniards were able to stop them
@Olivier Molinete Grande melons are fairly weak when pressure applied. You mean balls of titanium alloy.
@Olivier Molinete Grande oh ok nice lol
They really did something incredible, but they remain as the big Spanish assholes.
@@PolishBehemoth it's an expression meaning big balls... Not pertaining to the actual strength of a god damn melon
@The Canadian Crusader well...I mean, they faught under the nazis' command...
I was wanting for someone to make a video on this
Glad you found it here then xD!
History With Hilbert Also you have a good Spanish pronunciation.
Just one thing; is not "Azul Legión" is "Legión Azul" but overall is a very good video with very accurate information
Spain’s pain is far greater than yours!
Kyle Jansky, German Pain is far greater than yours!!!
Do you mean I waited?
the story of Iceland in World War II is the uk invaded in 1940, everyone was working for the british building roads, house and seaports, freedom form denmark in 1944, and more. We made a lot of money from the war and i call it the good wars p.s. great video
It's so interesting how just 6 years can be so different depending on where people were.
the war was good iceland, everyone had a job
I wouldn't say we invaded. More that we 'helped'.
thank you
They probably thought they could find a way to use your rotten whale meat thingy as a weapon.
Hope you enjoyed your time in Spain👍🏻⚔️
Spain just was destroyed after the civil war, that was why they didn't get a part in the war
Not only because of that
Divisão azul, they had an amazing song. Primavera (katyusha) take a look, so good.
It's actually how I learnt about the division in the first place!
@@historywithhilbert146 Spanish Blue Division one of the best Unit in Eastern Front, one of the units that most medals received
During Krasny Boor Battle they Stopped Russian Offensive they caused 20.000 casualties to Russian and lost around 3600
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Krasny_Bor
@@ASTFRER36 Indeed, without the Blue Division, the Red Army would have reached Leningrad one year earlier.
the best army in the world would be composed of German commanders, American intelligence and Spanish soldiers
the American don't need any body to be the best.. Because at West Point and at basic training they have quality control (gurkhas are one best)
Spain was intelligent
South,Central America,South East Asia....there they were intelligent.They rip the countries,they took their wealth,destroyed their cultures and convert them to ''catholicism''.Now the catholic church is ruling these countries,contributing to the wealth of these peadophiles,satanists,zionists
@@alimoulay786 what?
@@alimoulay786 you don't seem to know much about history
dumb
and soldiers were pro
My great grandfather fought in the division azul
Leode Siefast I definitely do not agree with naziism, it’s a horrible thing and I absolutely hate it, but he fought with it bc he ya know, lived under Franco and in those times military conscription was forced upon the people. He was forced to go to war and do you know where he ended up, fucking soviet Russia he explicitly told my family before he died a couple yrs ago that he hated the nazis so you can just fuck off
Santi Veronis respect, even if it was fascist, it’s not the people on the front line that should be blamed for their governments choices
Santi Veronis
The blue division was made up of volunteers so your grandfather wasn´t forced to go to Russia
My respect to ur grandpa
Leode Siefast Why mad?
The USSR would've been peppered by guerrillas if they invaded Spain.
A USSR invasion would have lead to a civil war: a lot of spaniards wouldn't agree but wouldn't do anything, some would agree and some would make guerrillas. But they would lose, I think
How would the Soviets have gotten to Spain. Only real way would have been to have marched through the other nations of Europe.
@@JohnWalterGates Nah
@@REYSIM Hispania was among the first few provinces that Rome conquered, yet it was among the latest to fully pacify due to "Spanish resilience" or Stubbornness if you will.
Me at the beginning:Fascist things?
Me at the end: Fascist things
False. The nationalcatholic franquism and the nazism come from the fascism, so its fascism too. In Spain, in the XX century, people from Spain fought against the fascism, they shout that all the time, and people from England, France and other countries came to Spain to figth against the fascism shouting that. Thats the truth. Spain, Germany and Italy were fascist countries.
@@napster1987 Franco's dictatorship was in fact fascist, but no allied forces came to help the republican side, not during the civil war, not after germany fell, not ever.
You at the beginning: Hate.
You at the end: Hate.
What Adria Mata
said above is correct. Franco was a traditional military dictator who played the Carlists, Falange and others against each other. He needed them in order to acquire power. After he had absolute control he did not need them. Franco followed strict Catholic ideology which did not mix with Falange ideology. Question, do you think when Franco gave the approval for Spanish recruits to join German forces who were fighting the Russians that he did it in order to get rid of some of the Falange. Most of those that went to fight the Russians were Falange members. Like they said in the video, this Spanish unit fighting the Russian lost 70% of there members.
@@a200037 That's because Franco didn't invade neighbours, and by the time Germany fell Spain wasn't at war, so there was no "Republican side", to back.
In order to intervene after WW2, the allies would have to invade Spain, which they had absolutely no reason to do.
El Führer habla sobre España y los españoles:
Considerados como tropa, los españoles son una banda de andrajosos. Para ellos el fusil es un instrumento que no debe limpiarse bajo ningún pretexto. Entre los españoles, los centinelas no existen más que en teoría. No ocupan sus puestos, pero si los ocupan es durmiendo. Cuando llegan los rusos, son los indígenas los que tienen que despertarlos. Pero los españoles no han cedido nunca una pulgada de terreno. No tengo idea de seres más impávidos. Apenas se protegen. Desafían a la muerte. Lo que sé es que los nuestros están siempre contentos de tener a los españoles como vecinos de sector. Si se leen los escritos de Goeben sobre los españoles, se advierte que no han cambiado desde hace cien años. Extraordinariamente valerosos , duros en las privaciones , pero ferozmente indisciplinados. (conversaciones sobre la guerra y la paz, 4-5 de enero de 1942)
Creo que una de nuestras más felices iniciativas fue permitir que una legión española luchase a nuestro lado. En la primera ocasión, condecoraré a Muñoz Grandes con la Cruz de Hierro con hojas de roble y brillantes. Será una buena inversión. Los soldados, sea cual fuere su origen, se entusiasman siempre por un jefe valeroso. Cuando regrese a España, habrá que equipar de arriba a abajo a esa Legión y de manera magnífica, darle parte del botín y algunos generales rusos como trofeos. De esta forma harán una entrada triunfal en Madrid y su prestigio será invencible. (conversaciones sobre la guerra y la paz , 5 de septiembre 1942 a mediodia)
España es un país al que es imposible no amar. Los españoles están repletos de grandeza y, en tiempo de guerra, qué valor el suyo. No conozco a un solo alemán que opine de distinta manera. Uno de nuestros primeros jefes regionales de Hannover regresaba de España. No tenia otro deseo que el de volver allí de nuevo. Jamás he encontrado a nadie que no sienta respeto por los españoles (conversaciones sobre la guerra y la paz, 5 de septiembre de 1942 por la noche).
Aunque esto es meterme en lo que no me importa,creo que no se debe quebrar la linea cordial y de colaboración alcanzada por ti en relación con los alemanes. Me consta por persona que convive con el Führer diariamente desde hace años y a quien visto no hace 15 días aun en Berlin, cual es el concepto que tiene de ti. En fin, como no me encargo el secreto te diré que se trata del doctor dietrich - el reichpresseführer - que me lo dijo en berlin delante de los her zuhlsdorff y brannweiler. Y fue entonces “ el Führer ha recibido tal impresion directa de muñoz grandes que solo de un general habla de tanto entusiasmo: de el general Dielt el de narwik”. Creo que este éxito no deberia ser juzgado al albur de que otro general causara la misma impresión. Para ello tu has echo en uno de los momentos mas difíciles de nuestra historia, con 18.000 hombres, lo que otros con dos millones no han conseguido para salvar a su país. Y ¡¡Arriba España!!
te abraza tu buen amigo y camarada Victor Ruiz de la serna
- Carta de Victor ruiz de la Serna a el general Agustin muñoz Grandes
www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/archivo-historico/division-azul-espanola/2917954/
Ignacio muy interesante!!
@@accionkmc3529
Thanks 😀😀
Alemania nació en 1800, España forjo un imperio y cambio el mundo. nada mas que decir
@@gustav4298
El modelo de imperio de los ingleses es mejor que el español porque conquistaban la tierra a los nativos americanos y a los que sobrevivieron los metieron en reservas y luego con sus mujeres blancas fundaron ciudades y pueblos por eso Norteamérica es una potencia y domina el mundo
@Acta Non Verba ambos estáis totalmente errados, bueno, "Acta Non Verba" en lo segundo, pues en lo primero perfecto.
El Imperio Español si que administró y muy bien además, siempre hablando obviamente en general, todas sus tierras, demasiado bien diría. Lo único que realmente le falló en los tiempos de los Austrias fue Flandes y el estarle regalando prácticamente también otra enormísima fortuna más a los principados alemanes para tenerlos medio contentos allí y que no se metieran demasiado en los asuntos imperiales y siguieran reconociéndole el título de Emperador del Sacro Imperio Germánico Romano. Así que todo el dinero y más se iba en aquella interminable guerra y en lo otro también, hasta arruinarla casi. En los tiempos de los Borbones, al no tener ya aquel pozo sin fondo llamado Flandes, junto a otros pequeños virreinatos y provincias más desperdigadas por Europa que le costaban mucho dinero mantenerlas y renunciando ya definitivamente a ese título de emperador por el de simple rey, la nueva Corona supo centrarse mucho más y mejor en América y en muy pocos años reflotó su casi arruinada economía hasta el punto que incluso llegó a ser más fuerte y solvente que nunca. Hasta muchos ministros de Inglaterra estaban casi arrepentidos por haber obligado a que España renunciara a Flandes. Decían que habían cometido el mayor error de todos, ya que hasta entonces España estaba casi al borde del abismo, casi muerta y al quitarse todas esas cadenas que la tenían completamente atada de pies y manos, resurgió como el Ave Fénix más fuerte que nunca, además de las reformas tan necesarias económicas.
Por tanto, por aquellas épocas el Imperio Español tenía la moneda más fuerte, sólida y estable del mundo. Fue una moneda global con la que dominaba el planeta prácticamente, como hoy en día lo pueda ser el dólar estadounidense, del que es hijo precisamente de nuestra antigua moneda. Es decir, el dólar estadounidense es heredera del "Spanish Dollar" como ellos la llamaban y de ahí su propio nombre de American Dollar. Sus primeras monedas de plata de hecho eran las nuestras pero modificándole la cara por la de su presidente de turno, pero con el mismo reverso español, escudo y letras en los bordes. Durante sus primeros años de vida ya como EEUU independiente usaron nuestra moneda tal cual oficialmente para sus propias transacciones, mientras aun estaban terminando de crear la suya propia basada por entera en la nuestra (el dólar hasta hace dos telediarios aun estaba dividida en 8 centavos y no 10 como hoy en día, justo como nuestro antiguo "real de a 8" de plata español), y durante la misma guerra de independencia usaron vales o recibos sellados por nuestro rey acreditando que dichos papeles con el valor que tuviera estaban respaldados por el tesoro real de España y valían para comprar con ellos como si de nuestra moneda de verdad se trataba. De hecho su símbolo $ es sacado del escudo de nuestra moneda donde aparecía nuestras dos columnas de Heracles (Hércules) con una o dos cintas cruzándolas formando una S. De ahí la S y los dos palitos verticales en medio del dólar y por tanto del dinero en general. Es decir, el símbolo de hoy en día del dinero global, al igual que el del dólar americano, sigue siendo la prueba y vestigio de la verdadera primera moneda global del planeta, el peso de plata español. Así que eso de que estábamos arruinados, sobretodo a partir del s. XVIII hasta justo las Guerras de Independencias Hispanoamericanas y Napoleónica es más falso que una moneda de plástico. Fue precisamente a partir de aquellos trágicos sucesos cuando realmente TODOS a ambos lados del Océano Atlántico y Pacífico cuando nos arruinamos por completo, con la destrucción del Imperio Hispánico, por una serie de malísimos reyes borbónicos, sobretodo Fernando VII que fue sin duda el peor de todos con diferencia además, y el mejor de todos ellos Carlos III sin discusión alguna también.
Otro aspecto más de la Verdadera historia que nos ha ocultado la propia historia oficial que es meramente anglosajona con el beneplácito del resto de otras naciones más europeas que se han sumado al mismo carro porque les convenían, hasta convencernos a nosotros mismos con el paso de varias generaciones de todas esas sartas de Mentiras (mala administración, atraso tecnológico e industrial, corrupción, etc muy pero que muy alejado de la Verdadera realidad), es que ni un solo imperio en la historia de la humanidad sobrevive tantos siglos siendo además hegemónicas en el mundo, creando casi de la nada en todo un continente entero tantísimo... miles de ciudades enormes y tan sofisticadas y modernas o más que los de la propia Europa, cientos de miles de pueblos, acueductos tremendos, puentes impresionantes, iglesias, catedrales, universidades, imprentas, caminos, calles bien pavimentadas, alcantarillados, todo un nuevo tejido social desde cero, descubrimientos geográficos por todo el globo, fortalezas y baluartes portuarios sin iguales, embarcaciones nuevas casi invencibles, escuelas de marineros y oficiales profesionales pioneras, expediciones botánicas a la altura de las mejores, tecnología cartográfica y náutica puntera (base de las modernas de hoy en día), Derechos de Gente y de Indias (base de los actuales Derechos Humanos Internacional), inventos un par de siglos antes que otras naciones como la máquina de vapor, aire acondicionado, traje de buzo, etc, y encima nosotros con el mayor hándicap todavía de ser universales, no tener un imperio dentro de un territorio delimitado además todo bien juntito por tierra en uno o como mucho dos continentes como hasta ahora el resto de los otros imperios antiguos que nos precedieron, siendo tan brutos, atrasados, corruptos, incivilizados, tan ineptos, tan estúpidos, etc como nos andan poniendo siempre. Ni siquiera tiene la más mínima lógica y sin embargo nos lo hemos tragado todo sin vaselina y sin parpadear siquiera. No señores no, les guste más, menos o nada a quienes sean, la Verdad es tan distinta a cómo nos la han y siguen enseñando que en casi todo hasta es justo opuesta. Y ese imperio se perdió mayormente por otras cuestiones muy distintas a las de la corrupción de la mayoría, ineptitud (bueno, en realidad si se puede decir que también, por parte de los últimos reyes que tuvimos, sobretodo el último en las nefastas decisiones que tomó), mala administración, etc. Nada que ver. Pero para quienes no lo sepan y quieran saberlo, quién mejor que uno mismo para descubrirlo, y para aquellos que no quieran pues que sigan errados si eso les hace sentirse más felices. Allá cada cual con su vida ya que somos libres más o menos, así que mis respetos igualmente.
Saludos.
My granpa fighted in the “Ebro battle” (He was in the blue division)
The blues suck
Portuguese volunteers were also part of the "blue division", those portuguese soldiers actually fought in the spanish civil war for the nationalists under the name "Viriatos"
My great-grandfather fought in the División Azul in Russia, and he survived.
Adriana Ortíz de Zarate Aiyón brave man
Yes, he was a brave man.
Hi :)
El mío también 😊
Mis respetos independientemente de su ideología
I'm Spanish 🇪🇸
Same
Morocco and Cameroon and 2 french provinces for participation in the war. Doesn’t seem too harsh? Cameroon is a jungle and Morocco is a desert. And the 2 french provinces were Vichy france’s and they were a puppet of Germany. I would’ve given it to Spain.
That's true - but you know what Hitler's like :P
Ryan de Bruin
Iparralde, or the Pays Basque, is on the coast, all the way to Bayonne, and was occupied by the Wehrmacht.☆ Hegoalde (south side) is in Spain.
Ryan de Bruin I think Hitler’s refusal had something to do with the fact that he considered Mediterranean’s inferior and also that he wanted to have the “better”French (and also British) as new allies after the war.
TheKaiman0 the irony of Hitler is how he considered Latins inferior, yet the only major fascists in Europe (apart from him) were Latin (Italy and Spain) and he imported Latin symbols everywhere, from the Latin/Roman salute to the imperial Roman eagle.
You know that Germany always had a symbolic connection to the Roman Empire, e.g. naming itself "Holy Roman Empire".
So, did you participate in the ww2?
Spain: Yes, I didn't.
What is a shame is France trying to hide the fact that the first unit that entered on Paris was the 9th company, a "French" company with 146 of 160 soldiers being spanish and the first officer that entered on the Paris Town Hall was Don Amado Granell, a spanish Lieutenant and second in command of the company. The first armored vehicles were the España Cañi, Guernica and Ebro but for the propaganda on the photos those names where changed .... What a fucking shame.
I was just reading about Spain too. 😀
Oh nice one!
Spain has always been that grumpy weird neighbor that stays to themselves but you always hear screams coming from their house.
General von Richtoffen was in charge.☆ The Basque Republican Army had 500 troops in France, and the Spanish Republican Army liberated Paris...gun emplacements were built on the coast near Bilbao...
Ah righto, thanks for this new information! The Basques were very much in favour of the Republican side if I remember rightly.
I was casually being spaniard when this video popped up, coincidence?🤔
I think that’s Ireland’s flag, not Italy’s
It's definitely the Italian Flag, just the colour isn't great for some reason.
You are a great youtuber, one of my favorites now.
Thank you so much!
Nein, danke schu!
it did a thing
except it didn't
and the axis could have won if spain would have joined them
Spain was in ruins when the civil war started, there was hunger, diseases and the people were tyred of war. Join WW2 would've been a suicide.
Spain was very poor at the time, so I don't think the country would have been decisive
ruclips.net/video/yew3fDEPqEQ/видео.html
like this :) you mean
Keep up the great work👍
Thank you so much!
How many languages do you speak?
It depends on what you class as speaking one I guess :P
History With Hilbert your Spanish pronunciation is flawless, don’t know about grammar, vocab etc but I would class your Spanish as good just from your pronunciation.
hi how about one on Portugal during the Spanish civil war would love to see what they did.
They probably spent it doing raids where they kidnapped little kids to get their blood, skin and fat.
These are basicaly the fat version of Alternate History characters. */: (*
I thought you were Welsh. Your accent sounds Welsh.
Bring pain in axis
I think if 🇷🇺invaded 🇪🇸it would be called the Russo-spainish war
Lol
I found this video very interesting, nice photos choice IMO, about to watch it again asap cause there are facts I wasn't aware of. And yeah, living by the Pyrenees and the Atlantic Ocean, I can tell you the border between Spain and France was particularly active at this period to say the least. Thank you sir "Nosy Dutchman"!
"Silly question" by the way but what about the Portugal during WWII? Still allied to the UK I guess no? TY
Spain was eating popcorn from Mexico.
So true
Never say "Guérnika" but "Guernika" (stress on the second syllable), but for the event and for Picasso´s masterpiece.
Also "Regiment de marche..." If you stress the final e in "marché" you mean "market" instead of "march", that´s what regiments do. I suggest you speak about the Bristish history you know. Cheers, mate.
You miss altoghether the "Brigadas internacionales" in the republican side, formed by (real) volunteers from many countries that had a reason to fight in an Europe ridden by dictatorships after the 1929 Crash and Great Depression.
Mi grandma was shot by a german airplane next to bilbao. very badly wounded by the fascists
Spain was basically eating popcorn with Sweden Switzerland and Turkey
Fantastic video, as always. I'd like to put in a recommendation on perhaps a future video about feudal property law in 12-13th century England. So much of today's UK and even the United States' property and estate law derives from this era. I'd love to hear more about how it all began. History nerds forever!
My great grandfather fought in the Spanish civil war and then came to Finland where he fought in the winter war and possibly the continuation war, I say possibly because he was wounded in Syväri if memory serves me right but I don't know when. That's all I know about him, my grandfather died when I was young, my grandma doesn't live in Finland and my dad newer talks about it and I don't want to ask.
In your introduction, why do you define one side as "the fascists-nationalists-falangists" and the other just as "the republicans"? You forgot to add "the communist-marxists-leninists" for the latter side. That's not very -let's say- objetive and fair from you.
Comment section all to my self
I miss the quiet xD
1:48 Irish flag
ignas vaitabunas fuck off how are we when we have a gay mixed race prime minister?
Cormac O’Donnell /r woooosh
Hey You Mussolini was Irish
buster117 For real?
ignas vaitabunas no dude it's just a joke
They are like italy, but they remained neutral before they switch or choose sides.
franco was a really good strategic, he dindt want to help hitler because he predicted perfectly the final of the war and how his regime could survive not helping hitler and conversing with usa so he was in contact with usa and so they didnt disturb franco after the war. franco also inform the usa president agains entering in vietnam and he again was correct.
I mean Spain, much like Spain in the first world war, had bugger all, not even manpower due to it's political divisions. if they sided with Germany then they'd be counted as more of an added ball ache than anything else, and Franco kinda got that vibe early on.
tisFrancesfault many spaniards did joined voluntarily to fight on the axis side
ThatGuyYouKnow only a single division of Spanish fascists ever really fought.
I mean they would of been better than Italy, you know actually doing anything at all unlike Italy.
It's not like Franco wanted any problems, he was too busy killing his own people.
The only reason he sent people to fight was so that the germans wouldn't throw shit at them. Then later on, like the pricks we spanish are, joined the winners side in Paris to prevent being shitted from the allies.
Isn't that awesome??!! We spanish don't ever work. War is too much effort, and nationalism/politics is too complicated for them, they'd rather take a cold one in the bar.
And they ask me to be proud of my country LOL I'm proud of our soil, but NEVER of my country. They didn't do ANYTHING for Europe.
Que tonto eres
Spaniards are so educated , we just gave back Russian visit in our land during Civil War...
4:07
**Spanish unit makes military achievment...**
Me: 😃
**...fighting for the nazis**
Me: 😑
Fighting communism*
@@jean-louisvaillardarpin1894 Same thing at the end of the day.
@@tommyvercetti9434 Nope
@@jean-louisvaillardarpin1894 Believe what you want, buddy.
@The Canadian Crusader Yeah, and while they fought communism they also supported nazi units and wore nazi uniforms. You know what's also a fact? The meeting Franco and Hitler had where they negotiated Spain joining the axis, something that didn't happen because Franco asked for too much and also because we would've needed too much German support since we were still recovering from our own civil war, which started because fascists wanted to... what was it? Oh yeah, "_fiGhT ComMuNisM_". For real, "fighting communism" has basically become an apology buzzword for fascists the same way "fascist" has become a buzzword for SJWs.
Did they take you very long siesta from 1939 to 1945?
I wouldn't call fascism far-right, more like authoritarian center.
Fun fact: I actually live in Madrid in a street that is called Caídos de la Division Azul (Fallen of the blue division). However, because of a law passed with the last socialist government in Spain some years ago (it basically says to get rid of all fascist symbols from the dictatorship from 1939 to 1975), it’s being changed to Memorial 11 de Marzo del 2004 (March 11th 2004 Memorial) referring to the terrorist attack that happened in Madrid that day.
The law is called Ley de memoria histórica (Historic memory law or something like that) and causes a lot of controversy among Spaniards because some people (mostly people in the left) argue that we have to get rid of everything related to the dictatorship, like what happened in Italy and Germany, and some other people (mostly people in the right) argue that it’s part of our history and that we have to accept it and leave it like is.
This is some proof of the division from the Civil war and the dictatorship that still exists in Spain after over 40 years of democracy.
Here in Argentina we have a Town called Videla
Mario 123 You should keep it the original name after all it honours your soldiers screw the leftist menace
Mario, people like you, living on hate, caused the civil war. You are a fanatic.
Great video ! I'm interested in that period of time myself. Unless I missed it, you failed to mention that Russia was just as helpful with the civil war as the Germans. They were just helping out the other side. There's a great movie that stars Teli Sevelas as the commander of a unit on the Russian front. I'll be damned if I can remember the name of the movie !!! I'm really glad to learn about what happened after the civil war ended. That's something that I know little about. It seems that history usually stops then. I'd really love to see more about both the civil war and after as well as the Blue Division too.
The russians were helping themselves for the most. They stole most of the spanish gold reserves... and a bunch of ships too. One would say the russians were pirates and traitors.. and im far from a fascist but one has to admit the facts.
You failed to mention that the Republican side in Spain was helped by the USSR and volunteers from all over the world
You are Dutch?! I’m a native English speaker and I swore the entire time I was listening to your video I thought you were a native English speaker too. Your accent is perfect. That surprised me.
As a Latino the country of Spain has done vicious things to my people in the past and knowing that they played a part in world War 2 in supporting Hitler wasn't surprising
As a Latino you don’t know your own history , there are a Mexican historian Zunzunegui I recommend you read some books or just watch some interviews on RUclips for stating to know your own history , don’t worry some Spanish have the same problem than you
Thanks a lot to talk about La Nueve. Viva la República!
PD: Baleares ha desaparecido, por lo visto no existía en esos tiempos. XDDD
Even though Franco was more of a Monarchist than a fascist, still great video dude!
The battle of krasni bor is a typical Spanish battle more. For example: Cartagena de Indias: 3,000 infantry and 6 ships VS 186 ships, 2,000 cannons and 30,000 British infantrymen. Or also: Battle of San Quintín: 900 Spanish casualties Vs 25,000 French casualties
I'm Spanish and I like how u made a video about my country like
Real madridaaa and barcaa fotbolaaaaa holaaa
can you make a video about the Dutch in ww2
their role after the fall of the netherlands like the navy
I've planned to for a long time and actually have one or two interviews ready for that.
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Great video ! But big mistake. As a frenchmen, I can garante you that the "Deuxime division blindée" of Maréchal Leclerc was made up of free french soldiers. There was only around 150 spanish soldiers, out of 16 000 frenchmen. Its true that the spanish where the 1st to enter Paris though.
You gotta love "La Nueve", the division of republican spanish that liberated Paris ✊✊
Adrian Fuentes That was all show my friend. Just as De Gaulle was allowed to march his Free French Army into Paris first (it was just a sop to the arrogant Frog) with some Spanish nationalists included, it was in fact the Americans, British and Canadians who liberated France and Paris. De Gaulle and his army were just a token, so as the French would not be totally embarrassed.
Leode Siefast no, I'm afraid you're wrong. As you say they were part of the Free French Army. In the front was the second division were most of soldiers were spanish who joined the french army after the spanish civil war. I'm not saying that the reinforcements couldn't have won, I don't know, but it is a fact that the second division alone, against all odds, liberated Paris from the nazis before the others arrived. There is even a park there to honor them. It's called Jardin des combattants de la Nueve. Also, it's very interesting to see how the spanish behaved in the WW2. There are cases of people defending other spanish of the other side because they said they didn't want foreigners to kill them. I encourage you to search on internet.
You used the new coat of arms, of the democratic Spain to represent Franco...
Love the name Francisco Franco though
My nana's uncle fought for the Spanish Republic, went into exile in a French concentration camp, then joined the French resistance and fought to liberate France although not Paris itself, he died of old age in Hendaye near the Spanish border since he had family in Irun (Spanish side of the border) and they would go into France to see him.
Funny thing is he had two brothers, both of which fought for Franco in the Spanish civil war, horrible little thing when brothers would kill each other over politics
Spain in World War II was the dumping and testing site of Germany's modern weapons.If Germany has Spain to test his weapon, U.S.A has Philippines in Cold War in Asia during Nixon time(Watergate Scandal).
My grand-uncle fought in the Division Azul. He was a fighter pilot on the Eastern Front, we still have the swastika medal he received.
Didn't some of Spanish republicans have communists and anarchists among them? Truly what an odd sight
I love how great and informative all of your videos are.
was the blue division formed by soldiers who had already experience in the civil war, or they where normal citizens?
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Gonzalo G. Mercyful fate \m/
ly Hilbert my favourite Dutchman, keep it up ❤️
Thanks man, I really appreciate it!
He's not Dutch he's French?
redgrassgirl He is dutch my friend
Wen you bourne SPANIARD.. Can't scape. Can't scape this feeling i can love you to death can fight you to death. NOS VEMOS EN COMBATE ... AMIGOS
I'll admit I knew some of the general details about the Spanish Civil War, and WWII; You- however- took it to another level!!! Thanks for the video.
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Brilliant video Hilbert mate just ace.
I’m not sure about the matter of any Spaniards helping Jewish refugees in Hungary but there was a Colonel and Diplomat to Switzerland from the country El Salvador by the name of Jose Castellano Contreras who, alongside a Jewish-Hungarian diplomat named György Mandl, helped create thousands of forged passports and ultimately coordinating the escape of upwards of 40,000 Hungarian and other Central European Jews. It’s super interesting and here’s the wiki on it en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Castellanos_Contreras
Great video and greetings from Turkey. Can you do a video about Turkey in the World War 2? I think political manuevres of Turkey is fascinating.
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I will tell you one thing about the exiled Spanish Republicans who fought in the French army during WWII.
When they fled to France after the Franco regime was established, they were put into French refugee camps and treated like dogs. The French saw them as inferior beings.
Well, once France goes to war with Germany, those Republicans enlisted in the Foreign Legion to fight the Germans and get revenge for what they did in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Those Frenchmen who both boasted and repudiated the Spanish republicans cowardly fled from almost all battles and were humiliated and invaded in a few weeks. In a documentary about the Company of Spaniards, a Spanish veteran said: That was pathetic, the French generals and officers did not stop retreating, there no one wanted to present battle to the Germans.
Then they were sent to fight with liberated France in North Africa and the French and their anti-Spanish racism despite not liking them preferred to have them on their own troops because they were hardened fighters experienced during the civil war.
Once they landed in Normandy, the 9 Company of Spanish Republicans proved to be very efficient, even the Americans were surprised by their high skill on the battlefield, where during a confrontation they captured a multitude of Germans being very few. Even the general who commanded those Germans committed suicide before the disappointment of being defeated and captured by a small squad of men.
They were the first to enter and liberate Paris, and the French tried to hide it from public opinion because they wanted to show a false image where the French liberated Paris.
After the liberation of Paris they continued fighting for France and throughout Europe until they reached Hitler's Eagle's Nest.
After the war they were repudiated and forgotten in France. They were not named in any history book or honored with devotion.
Those "republican dogs" as the French called them were an experienced and efficient company of soldiers. And while the vain French were humiliated by the Germans during the invasion of France at the beginning of the war (let's not forget that France was invaded in a few weeks!), The Spanish along with the Americans, English and the rest of the allies were the ones who they liberated France instead of doing it themselves.
Today they are honored during the events of the liberation of Paris, but only after numerous historical associations spoke with the government of Paris and France to include them and honor them for the contribution they made in their country.
Spain itself didnt did much but spaniards did a lot... Most suscefull spy in the whole war who saved thousands and thousands of allied lives....codename "garbo"... liberation of paris (most experienced soldiers in the whole allied side, 3+ years of experience), and stopped a russian offensive in the western front while not having tanks and being hugely outnumbered.. There was no fighters during the ww2 that had more combat experience than the spaniards, for obvious reasons...
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If Spain joined Germany the North African campaign would have been very different. The Axis might have actually won.
I read Mexico was a nation that let a lot of Spanish refugees during the Spanish civil war because Europe didn't want to take refugees from Spain. Anybody know about this ?
There were also few filipino mestizos who fought in the spanish blue division all of them were falangist veterans of spanish civil war from the Falange Exterior or Servicio Exterior de Falange for the sake of La Hispanidad however after they fought hard in the eastern front they were amongst have been pulled out by franco disband in 1943 when he negotiate with the allies they have stayed in spain for years can't return to the philippines because of japanese occupation.Some people of spanish descent that i know rarely shared some of the stories how there fathers and grandfathers in the european theatre fought at that time there was this particular person i forgot his name who posted an article about what i believe to be his granduncle who died in the 90's.The story goes they were near in leningrad area at one point had skirmish with the large soviet siberian forces both sides had to used skis because of heavy snow terrain.Stories like this were almost unknown franco hates falangists that's why most of it were left unrecorded and forgotten
!Viva España¡
The resistance against Franco was portrayed in the Guillermo Del Toro film Pan's Labrynth
Whaaaat?. Franco never asked for the french basc country nor for french catalonia. Who invented this?. Franco did not want to involve Spain in a new war and he had to dance in a thin rope....He send thousands of tons of metals, clothes and weapons to england thru Portugal...
Who's the guy who fought who fought for the fascist Italy & Nazi Germany and Spanish Civil war
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You are wrong in one thing spain never was pro germany only half of spain the ones that helped jews and british pilots to go back to UK where from the republican part actually the frist soldiers to take paris where spanish
Germans, Italians and USA helped FRANCO. YOU HEARD RIGHT! USA.
Some did join the Nazi troops !! But Franco back the line more to be neutral , only the blue division
"Benito Mussolini also sent help"
That sentence needs an awful lot of asterisks.
You'd be surprised, the Italians helped more then the Germans!
The italians bombed Barcelona for days and killed hundreds of civilians
800 planes, 1800 cannons, 3500 machine guns, 6800 trucks 50,000 men, doesn't seem a small thing.
no, the sent lots of troops and vehicles. its not a fiction, my own family saw them
The Spanish military aviation in 1940 consisted of Italian and German war residues, the navy was almost non-existent, the army had neither armored vehicles nor tanks, the first panzers IV arrived in 1943, the military industry was little, what could this country do?