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Yes, Spanish Volunteers Did Fight Alongside Hitler Against Stalin
The fascists may have won the Spanish Civil War, but they were not eager to commit their country completely to the Axis cause.
Key point: The war between two totalitarian powers on the Eastern front was brutal and ugly. Here is how the Spanish Blue Division helped the Nazis in their doomed quest for victory.
The Russian winter of 1941­-1942 hit with terrible ferocity. Battling the deadly, numbing cold as well as the massive numbers of Red Army troops were soldiers from sunny Spain. Yet the men, who were more accustomed to sipping sangria on a Mediterranean beach than trying to survive in a white, sub-zero arctic hell, were giving as good as they got. They were the men volunteers all of the Division Azul, or Blue Division, led by 45-year-old Maj. Gen. Agustin Muñoz-Grandes, himself one of the heroes of the Spanish Civil War. ....

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