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My next request is for photos of the Spanish Blue Division

Spanish recruiting office 1941


250. Infanterie-Division on the way to the east 1941, HGruppe Nord.


East front fall 1941


Getting food and water. December 1941


Both pictures show the 250th at Leningrad early 1942

Thnx

Soviet soldiers. Voronezh. 1942

Soviet soldiers. Voronezh. 1942

nice ones



T-34 , Square of Fallen Fighters in Stalingrad

Soviet soldiers and destroyed "Panther". Battle of Kursk. 1943

Berlin , 03 - 02 - 1945

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No prob. I hope you can require them.

Some more of the 250. "Blaue" Division (Division Azul/ The blue Division)

Ancient of the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment Pimentel.



Coat of Arms of the 250th IDivision.



Solemn Appeal with the spanish flag.


Spanish heavy MG 42.


Memorial for the Division Azul in Almudena.


Volunteers start in Madrid.


Here arrival to Germany to swear allegiance to Hitler, receive accelerated instruction for leaving to the eastern front.


Buriing the fallen.




Spanish troops from the Blue Division (División Española de Voluntarios) trudge across rolling countryside on the Leningrad Front, winter 1942/1943.


Division Azul Battle of Krasni Bor - War proofed.


A Basque member of the Spanish Blue Division (Spanish: División Azul) has dinner on a hospital patio with a kitten after returning from the Eastern Front. October 1942.

Excellent

Thank you very much!

Excellent

Just wanted to stop then I found this.





All four pictures show the Ski Company of the Division Azul in Russia.


Spanish volunteer of the Blue Division during the winter 1941-42 near Moscow.


Diversity of mimetic uniforms worn by the Spaniards , many of which resemble those worn by members of the Waffen SS .... (Original: Diversidad de uniformes miméticos llevados por los españoles, muchos de ellos se asemejan a los que llevaban los miembros de las Waffen SS.... )


& Km to Leningrad (Petersburg)


In Kaskowo.


Remains of the II. / 269th Reg. on its return in January 1943 fighting in the area of ​​Mga.




And this one is the best:



Original description:
"Evidentemente nuestros divisionarios cruzaron el Wolchov de diferente manera a la que lo hicieron estos alemanes en el río Mosa en 1940."

Translaton:
"Obviously our division crossed the Wolchov in a different way than the Germans did the Meuse in 1940."

Divisions in mid- late 44' that retained higher standards (IMO) were:

-Panzer Lehr
-2.Pz, 9.Pz, 11.Pz
-116.Pz 'Windhund'- It was originally 16.PzG in the East.
-2.SS 'Das Reich'

The new 'volksgrenadier' divisions were usually merged remnants or renamed 'old' divisions. The 62nd VG division in the battle of the bulge was actually a poorly equipped veteran division, and outperformed its peers due its men.

it would be interesting to know how many german veterans units and formations were on the west front upon the arrival of the D-Day troops in Normandy and with all the newly german armies that were created by that time is even hard to know .

Not directly WW2 related, but also intersting.
Military power of nations in 1929

Divisions in mid- late 44' that retained higher standards (IMO) were:

-Panzer Lehr
-2.Pz, 9.Pz, 11.Pz
-116.Pz 'Windhund'- It was originally 16.PzG in the East.
-2.SS 'Das Reich'

The new 'volksgrenadier' divisions were usually merged remnants or renamed 'old' divisions. The 62nd VG division in the battle of the bulge was actually a poorly equipped veteran division, and outperformed its peers due its men.

references ?

they were destroying much of the documents by the end of the war , im not suprise by the low quantity of information a person can get on this issue .

The M36 Tank Destroyer had been brought into service in September 1944, bringing the necessary fire power to deal with the German Panthers and Tigers.

What a gorgeous piece of steel

Incorrect, there are unit histories, records, and information at NARA/BA-MA or published in book form like Guderian's 116.Pz, 1.SS, 2.SS, etc. There are a few websites that offer spotty info.

The rest is subjective as the performance of a unit can be sensed from reading operations. von Schweppenburg's evaluation is interesting: of Panzer Group West, only a few were worthwhile with average efficiency of the Group as being at 30-40% of those in 1940.

references ?

they were destroying much of the documents by the end of the war , im not suprise by the low quantity of information a person can get on this issue .

What a gorgeous piece of steel

I know.

Not directly WW2 related, but also intersting.
Military power of nations in 1929

So... the Czechslovak invasion of Germany is a real possibility...

They were more concerned about the Poles, which is why a lot of the Freikorps were set up in the East to get around the Versailles restrictions.

So... the Czechslovak invasion of Germany is a real possibility...

They were more concerned about the Poles, which is why a lot of the Freikorps were set up in the East to get around the Versailles restrictions.

This list of military strenght is nothing more than a propaganda paper created by german nationilist/right winged parties during the elections of the Reichstag with the intention to threaten the voters because of a possible german defenselessness ensuring voters will elect those parties and support their demands of a rearmed german military in the Republic of Weimar and a "possible" revision of the treaty of Versailles.

And Freikorps, in terms of armed paramilitary forces, did not exist anymore after the year 1920 in the Republic of Weimar. To hide a secret rearmement, in terms of training troops, which was against the treaties of Versailles/Trianon and St. Germain there were various strategies for the first german Democracy.

Three examples:
1. Conscription time was reduced so more soldiers could be trained but the troops limitation of 100.000 of the Reichswehr was not exeeded, because trained soldiers joined civil-life again.

2. German factories still produced submarines, but now for foreign clients until 1935. (Knowledge and Know-how was still there and was even improved.)

3. Military education and training of pilots was forbidden. So across the country gliding schools and clubs were established where new pilots were schooled and educated. Many pilots of the first days of the Luftwaffe gained experience with flying airplanes for civil airlines such as the german "Lufthansa" or airlines from other countries.