The 250th Infantry Division (German: 250. Infanterie-Division), better known as the Blue Division (Spanish: División Azul, German: Blaue Division), was a unit of volunteers from Francoist Spain operating from 1941 to 1944 within the German Army (Wehrmacht) on the Eastern Front during World War II. It was officially designated the Spanish Volunteer Division (Spanish: División Española de Voluntarios) by the Spanish Army.
Francisco Franco had secured power in Spain after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), during which the Nationalists received support from Nazi Germany. Franco's authoritarian regime remained officially non-belligerent in World War II but sympathised with the Axis powers. After lobbying by the Spanish Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer and by senior figures within the Spanish Army following the 22 June 1941 launch of Operation Barbarossa, Franco agreed that Spanish people would be permitted to enlist privately in the German Army and undertook to provide tacit support. An infantry division was raised from Falangist and Spanish Army cadres and was sent for training in Germany. The unit fought on the Eastern Front and notably participated in the 1941–1944 siege of Leningrad, but was withdrawn from the Front after Allied pressure in October 1944 and returned to Spain soon afterwards. Several thousand non-returners were incorporated into the 121st Infantry Division, the short-lived Blue Legion, and eventually into the Waffen-SS.
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who remained behind at the Eastern Front after most of the Spanish BlueDivision was withdrawn in October 1943 because Francisco Franco had started negotiations...
not against the western Allies. This resulted in the formation of the BlueDivision which fought as part of the German army on the Eastern Front between...
Lithuania, and the Balkans. At least 47,000 Spaniards served in the BlueDivision. Some estimates state anywhere between 600,000 and 1,400,000 Soviet...
blue, red, orange and yellow divisions according to strength. Each of the twenty-one nations was eligible to win the championship. The BlueDivision featured...
Russia, despite requests by Muñoz Grandes that they be attached to the BlueDivision, until their withdrawal in 1943. Bowen p. 45 Neulen pp. 276–285 Bowen...
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the teams were divided into two divisions – five in the top BlueDivision and six in the Red Division. Only BlueDivision participants were able to compete...
elite BlueDivision, usually reserved for the top six teams from the previous championship. After originally placing Germany in the BlueDivision, the...
four divisions, with the five highest-ranked teams placed in the BlueDivision and the others being split into the Yellow, Green, and Orange Divisions. In...
became a stalemate. The strong defense by the Spanish BlueDivision and the German SS Polizei Division gave the German forces time to reinforce their positions...
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the first time regrouped in a grand unit: BlueDivision of general Élie de Vassoigne, named after the blue uniforms worn by the soldiers to differentiate...
three divisions – five in the top BlueDivision, six in the Red Division, and four in the Green Division. The top three finishers in the BlueDivision advanced...
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