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On June 28, 1941, Spain's dictator Francisco Franco - who had won his own civil war against Soviet-backed forces just two years earlier - made a bold announcement: Spain would send volunteers to join Hitler's invasion of Russia.

The response overwhelmed recruiting offices across Spain within hours. Civilians and military men rushed to enlist. Army officers even begged to serve as privates just for a chance to join. Historian Gerald R. Kleinfeld noted: [QUOTE] "For many of the young Spaniards who volunteered, it was a crusade against Communism."

Now, facing their old enemy in the frozen wastelands of Russia, the Blue Division pushed through bone-shattering temperatures of minus 56 degrees Celsius at Lake Ilmen, where 543 German soldiers lay trapped behind Soviet lines. The force the Germans had dismissed as undisciplined and useless had become their only hope of survival.