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The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945 : War, Occupation, Memory / Xosé Núñez Seixas ; translated by Andrea Blanch, Daniel Blanch, and Craig Patterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Núñez Seixas, Xosé M. (Xosé Manoel), 1966- author.
- Series:
- Toronto Iberic.
- Toronto Iberic Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Spain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Spanish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Germany.
- Germany. Heer. Infanteriedivision (1941-1943), 250.
- Germany.
- Germany. Heer. Infanteriedivision (1941-1943), 250--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (363 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945 addresses the history and memory of the Spanish volunteers that served alongside the German army in the invasion of Russia.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: The Blue Division, the Franco Regime, and the Second World War
- Placing the Blue Division within New Military History
- Enemies and Friends: Russia, Germany, and Spanish Fascism (1917-41)
- From the Imagined Russian to the Real Russian (1917-41)
- Hitler, German Nazism, and Spanish Fascism (1930-41)
- Italian and German Echoes (1924-36)
- Fascinated by the Third Reich (1936-41)
- 2 Russia Is Guilty!
- Extermination and Brutalization: Operation Barbarossa and a Different Kind of War
- Allies in the "European Crusade against Bolshevism"
- European Volunteers against Bolshevism: Myth and Reality
- Spanish Volunteers against the USSR: Recruitment, Sending, and the Nature of the Blue Division
- Who Volunteered for the Blue Division?
- The "Fever" of the Summer of 1941
- The Replacements of 1942-3: Mercenaries, Conscripts, or Volunteers?
- Social and Prosopographic Profile of the Volunteers
- Falangists, Ex-combatants, and "Wartime Francoists"
- Clearing Your Military Record ... or Deserting
- "Spain on the Volkhov": Falangism in the Blue Division
- 3 A Long March: From Central Europe to the Volkhov Front
- The Wehrmacht and Spanish Soldiers
- The Admired Wehrmacht: An Egalitarian Army?
- Spanish and German Soldiers: Stereotypes, Coexistence, and Conflict
- On the German Home Front
- The "Achievements" of the Third Reich: Spanish Impressions
- Iberians and Bavarians
- German Girls: "A Taste of Paganism and Nature"
- Occupied Populations on the March to the Front: Spaniards, Poles, and Baltic Peoples
- 4 The Blue Division on the Front
- Lost Victories: The Volkhov Front (October 1941-August 1942).
- War of Positions in the Siege of Leningrad (September 1942-November 1943)
- The Short-Lived Blue Legion (December 1943-March 1944)
- Life on the Front: The Daily Experience of Spanish Combatants
- Cold, Filth, Boredom … and Peril
- Jünger or Remarque?
- Comradeship and the Cult of the Fallen
- 5 Occupation Practices of the Blue Division in Northwest Russia
- Another Image of the Enemy
- From "the Horde" to "the Ruski"
- Victims, Exotics, and Noble Savages: Russian Civilians
- A "Stinking and Depraved Poverty"
- The Karamazov Revived?
- A Pseudo-Asiatic People?
- The Noble Savage: An Opportunity for Redemption
- An Idyllic Relationship? The Occupiers and the Occupied
- Colourful and Undisciplined Occupiers
- Sleeping with the Enemy
- Ugly Panienkas, Idealized Katiushas, and the Children
- Dealing with Partisans: Benevolence or Inefficacy?
- The Spanish Division and the "Jewish Question"
- Anti-Semitism without Jews
- Encountering the Eastern European Jews, 1941-3
- Grodno, Oshmiany, Vilnius, and Riga
- Protectors or Bystanders?
- 6 The Last Crusaders of the Nazi New Order (1944-5)
- Spaniards in the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS (1944-5)
- Nazis, Radical Falangists, and Survivors
- 7 War Veterans and Memories from the Eastern Front in Franco's Spain (1942-75)
- Prosopography of the Trajectories of BD Returnees
- Agents of Memory: Blue Division Veterans' Associations
- The Blue Division Post-war Narrative
- Clichés in Blue Division Memory
- An Unpleasant Topic: The Holocaust
- Epilogue: "We Were Right!" The "Conversion" of Russia
- 8 Conclusion: A Spanish Exception in the War of Extermination?
- Notes
- Sources and References
- Index
- Toronto Iberic.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Núñez Seixas, Xosé The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-4167-8
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