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Historia Orgánica De Las Grandes Unidades (1475–2018) (PDF). Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa – Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina; Marquina, Antonio (1998). The Spanish Neutrality during the Second World War. American University International Law Review, 14(1), pp. 171–184. Payne, Stanley G (2008). Franco and Hitler. New Haven: Yale ...
The Blue Legion (Spanish: Legión Azul; German: Blaue Legion), officially called the Spanish Volunteer Legion (Spanish: Legión Española de Voluntarios; German: Spanische Freiwilligen-Legion), was a volunteer legion created from 2,133 falangist volunteers who remained behind at the Eastern Front after most of the Spanish Blue Division was withdrawn in October 1943 because Francisco Franco had ...
The neutral powers were countries that remained neutral during World War II.Some of these countries had large colonies abroad or had great economic power. Spain had just been through its civil war, which ended on 1 April 1939 (five months prior to the invasion of Poland)—a war that involved several countries that subsequently participated in World War II.
At the beginning of World War II, bombing of cities prior to invasion was an integral part of Nazi Germany's strategy. In the first stages of war, the Germans carried out many bombings of towns and cities in Poland (1939), including the capital Warsaw (also bombed in 1944), with WieluĊ being the first city destroyed by 75%. [40]
La División Azul: Historia completa de los voluntarios españoles de Hitler. De 1941 a la actualidad (in Spanish). Spain: La Esfera de los Libros. ISBN 978-84-9164-606-8. Bowen, Wayne H. (2005) Spaniards and Nazi Germany: Collaboration in the New Order. University of Missouri Press, 250 pages, ISBN 0-8262-1300-6.
The Oxford Companion to World War II (2005), comprehensive encyclopedia for all countries; Eccles, Karen E. and Debbie McCollin, eds. World War II and the Caribbean (2017) excerpt; Frank, Gary. Struggle for hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War (Routledge, 2021). Friedman, Max Paul.
After the war, she met her future husband, an English academic named John Peel (who at the time was still a student), while working in a restaurant in Paris, [3] and they settled in Long Ashton, near Bristol, several years later.
The History of the Second World War is the official history of the British contribution to the Second World War and was published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). ). The immense project was sub-divided into areas to ease publication, United Kingdom Military Series, the United Kingdom Civil Series for the civilian war effort; the Foreign Policy series, the Intelligence series and the ...