The Blue Division (Spanish: División Azul, German: Blaue Division, officially designated as División Española de Voluntarios by the Spanish Army and 250. Infanterie-Division in the German Army,) was a unit of Spanish volunteers that served in the German Army on the Eastern Front of the Second World War.
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