German involvement in the Spanish Civil War information
German involvement in the spanish civil war
German
involvement in the Spanish Civil War
Aftermath of the aerial bombardment of Guernica[1]
Active
17 July 1936 – 26 May 1939 (1936-07-17 – 1939-05-26)
Country
Nazi Germany
Allegiance
Nationalist Spain
Role
Support Nationalist forces
Conflict
Spanish Civil War
Military unit
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Spanish Civil War
Background
List of battles
July 1936 uprising
Melilla
Seville
1st Barcelona
Cuartel de la Montaña
Gijón
Oviedo
Cuartel de Loyola
1936
German intervention
Guadarrama
Andalusia
Alcázar
Extremadura
Convoy de la Victoria
Almendralejo
Sigüenza
1st Mérida
Badajoz
Majorca
Sierra Guadalupe
Córdoba
Gipuzkoa
Irún
Monte Pelado
Talavera
Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza
Guinea
Cerro Muriano
Cape Spartel
Seseña
Madrid
Ciudad Universitaria
1st Corunna Road
Villarreal
Ursula
Aceituna
Lopera
2nd Corunna Road
1937
3rd Corunna Road
Málaga
Jarama
Cape Machichaco
Guadalajara
Pozoblanco
War in the North
Cantabrian Sea
Biscay
Durango
Guernica
Bilbao
Santander
Asturias
El Mazuco
Jaén
2nd Barcelona
Deutschland
Almería
Segovia
Huesca
Albarracín
Brunete
Zaragoza
1st Belchite
Cape Cherchell
Sabiñánigo
1st Lérida
Teruel
1938
Valladolid
Alfambra
Cape Palos
Aragon
2nd Belchite
3rd Barcelona
Caspe
2nd Lérida
1st Gandesa
Segre
Levante
Balaguer
Los Blázquez
Alicante
Granollers
Bielsa
2nd Mérida
Ebro
2nd Gandesa
Cantabria
Cabra
Sant Vicenç de Calders
1939
Catalonia
Valsequillo
Xàtiva
La Garriga
Minorca
Cartagena
Final offensive
German involvement in the Spanish Civil War commenced with the outbreak of war in July 1936, with Adolf Hitler immediately sending in air and armored units to assist General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist forces. The Soviet Union sent in smaller forces equipped with more advanced equipment to assist the Republican government, while Britain and France and two dozen other countries set up an embargo on any munitions or soldiers into Spain. Nazi Germany also signed the embargo, but simply ignored it.
The war provided combat experience with the latest technology for the German military. However, the intervention also posed the risk of escalating into a world war for which, Hitler was not ready. He therefore limited his aid, and instead encouraged Mussolini to send in large Italian units. Franco's Nationalists were victorious; he remained officially neutral in the Second World War, but helped the Axis in various ways from 1940 to 1945, even offering to join the war on 19 June 1940 in exchange for help building Spain's colonial empire.[2] The Spanish episode lasted three years and was a smaller-scale prelude to the world war which broke out in 1939.
Nazi support for General Franco was motivated by several factors, including as a distraction from Hitler's central European strategy, and the creation of a Spanish state friendly to Germany to threaten France. It further provided an opportunity to train men and test equipment and tactics.
^Carr (1971). p. 209.
^Weinberg, Gerhard. A World in Arms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 page 177.
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