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Francisco Franco

Invasion of the Soviet Union

Sunday Jun 22, 1941
Soviet Union

When the invasion of the Soviet Union began on 22 June 1941, Franco's foreign minister Ramón Serrano Suñer immediately suggested the formation of a unit of military volunteers to join the invasion. Volunteer Spanish troops fought on the Eastern Front under German command from 1941 to 1944.


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