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<p>[QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 1071051, member: 22"]Never seen or heard of them before, even after all the years of collecting medals.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other big surprise was the División Española de Voluntarios medal, so Franco and Spain remained neutral they still managed to cobble together 18,000 people to form a German unit but only to fight the Soviets.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was Franco's gift to Hitler after he assisted in the Spanish civil war.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the battle field the Spanish wore German uniforms and when on leave back in Spain the soldiers could not use official Spanish army uniforms, they adopted a symbolic uniform comprising the red berets , khaki trousers and the blue shirts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 1071051, member: 22"]Never seen or heard of them before, even after all the years of collecting medals. The other big surprise was the División Española de Voluntarios medal, so Franco and Spain remained neutral they still managed to cobble together 18,000 people to form a German unit but only to fight the Soviets. This was Franco's gift to Hitler after he assisted in the Spanish civil war. On the battle field the Spanish wore German uniforms and when on leave back in Spain the soldiers could not use official Spanish army uniforms, they adopted a symbolic uniform comprising the red berets , khaki trousers and the blue shirts.[/QUOTE]
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