Medalla de la Campaña de Rusia

Blue Division Medal (Aguila de San Andres)


Medal and Ribbon

Awarded by  Nationalist Spain
TypeCampaign medal
EligibilitySpanish Forces
Awarded forVolunteer Service in WW2
CampaignSoviet Union
Description
ClaspsNone
Statistics
Established9 November 1943

The Medalla de la campaña de Rusia ("Medal of the Russian Campaign"), commissioned 9 November 1943, was awarded by Nationalist Spain to those Spanish volunteers who served at the Russian front during World War II, as members of the Blue Division.[1] This force, attached to the Heer of the Wehrmacht, known as the 250th Infantry Division (span.), was in total composed of 47,000 men, sent by Francisco Franco to aid the Third Reich, as a way to pay back Adolf Hitler's help with the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War.

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References

  1. Carlos Caballero Jurado (2009). Atlas ilustrado de la Divisin̤ Azul(Illustrated Atlas of the Blue Division). Susaeta Ediciones. ISBN 84-677-0202-8.

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