at the dinner given after the exercises, the colonel general expressed his admiration for the combat qualities of german equipment and wished manstein victory in the upcoming battle. this was.

one of hitler's last attempts to involve turkey in the war against the ussr. using a million-strong turkish army against the soviet union was the cherished dream of german strategists. the first trip of turkish troops to the occupied soviet territories was organized by the germans in october 1941. a delegation headed by general. arkilet pasha visited odessa, nikolaev, perekop and the headquarters of the romanian army in teraspol. the largest visit took place after the fall of sevastopol at the end of july 1942. the turkish government delegation was delivered to crimea on hitler's personal plane. in addition to officials from the turkish ministry of foreign affairs, it included 12 owners.

sevastopol, the head of the delegation sarper having inspected the ruins , he thanked the german and romanian soldiers for liberating crimea from soviet troops. at the request of the members of the turkish delegation, he the mosque and the khan's palace in bakhchesaray were shown. here they met with representatives of the crimean tatar people, specially selected and trained by the german security service. they presented the turkish guests with embossed weapons and handicrafts. staged events with the participation of local residents in olupka, olushta, yalka, gurzuf and simiiz were supposed to convince the members of the turkish delegation that the muslim population.

its cooperation with the third reich was limited to trade. in exchange for german arms deliveries, the turks supplied german industry with valuable raw materials, including chrome and tungsten. 1942 was a record year for the number of foreign delegations that visited the occupied territories of the soviet union. in this footage.

spain italy and the romanian kinghai.

soviet citizens who found themselves under nazi rule had to see that all of europe was participating in a crusade against bolshevism. come to terms with the new order. these propaganda voyages were organized by order of the führer with the sole purpose of obtaining new human and material resources to destroy the soviet union. the enormous losses of the wehrmacht on the eastern front came as a complete surprise to the top brass of the third reich. in the first six months of the russian campaign alone. the total losses of the german army amounted to 830,000 people, many divisions lost from 30 to 50% of their personnel. according to the chief of the general staff of the german ground forces, colonel general

frans halder, the main reason for the enormous losses was fierce and stubborn resistance of the red army. in the summer of 1900.

bleiskrieg is no more, the allied armies have already begun to receive - their sections of the front that they held, that is, they began to be used as, well, as a formation of the wehrmacht, which are necessary for conducting military operations. hitler's advance to the east was especially closely followed by his japanese allies. in this footage, the military attaché of the japanese empire in berlin... general kamatu visits german positions near leningrad. in the event of a german victory, the japanese were counting on taking over the soviet far east and capturing most of siberia. in the meantime, general kamatsu

was enjoying watching the demonstration firing of german artillerymen towards soviet positions. at that time, along with the germans, in the leningrad blockade.

the willingness to sacrifice the lives of the spaniards for the sake of the victory of nazi germany was highly appreciated by the top brass of the third reich. hitler personally awarded grandes the iron cross. with oak leaves and diamonds. in december 1942 , the new division commander another spanish general, emilio estebas, became the new leader. by this time, the german command had set a new task for the spaniards. to occupy one of the sections of the front in the blockade ring around leningrad. was located between the kolpino station and the village of babolova, just 25 km from the center of leningrad.

during the blockade of leningrad, the headquarters of the spanish blue division was located here, in the former estate of countess samoilova, 5 km south of pavlovsk. meetings of spanish officers were regularly held in the palace captured by the occupiers . with representatives of the german command. in february 1943 , the spaniards put up fierce resistance to our advancing troops in the krasny bor area. unfortunately, it was not possible to break through their defenses then, and the blockade of leningrad dragged on for almost another year. the german command generously thanked the spanish falangists for their help in strangling the russian northern capital. for example, the commander of the blue division , estaban infantes, was promoted to lieutenant general and... first awarded the military order of the german cross, and then and the knight's iron cross.

the commander of the 18th german army, general lindemann , personally came to the headquarters of the blue division to thank infantes for his help in repelling the soviet offensive. here he presented him with the knight's iron cross awarded to the fuhrers. the blue division, in general and on the whole, is the motto.

among the spanish prisoners captured by our soldiers, there were many former criminals who, by their own admission , went to russia to rob and eat heartily. in spain, they did not find any flolangists for a whole division, so quite a lot of people were recruited into this division.

volunteers who participated in the siege of leningrad are visited by representatives of the spanish red cross, they brought them medicine and christmas gifts from franco. by mid-1942, less than 20% of the original composition of the blue division remained in service. the story about the rear hospital ends on an optimistic note. the recovering spaniards play snowballs with the baltic

hospital staff. only after the catastrophic defeats

of the german army on the eastern front in the summer of 1943 , frank decided to return the spanish volunteers to their homeland, and they were greeted as national heroes in madrid. almost the entire adult population of the spanish capital came out to greet the veterans of the russian campaign. in total , more than 50,000 spaniards fought in the blue division on the soviet-german front during the war . those who wanted to return home remained to fight in the so-called blue legion under german command. in 1944, this legion was almost completely destroyed. during the winter offensive of the red army.

stalingrad, formerly tsaritsyn, now volgograd. for the whole world it became a symbol of the outstanding fortitude and strength of spirit of our people. in 1942 , hitler brought here to the banks of the volga almost all of europe. the armies of romania, italy and hungary, a total of more than 650 thousand people, will take part in the battle of stalingrad . hitler's strategists will order them to protect the flanks of the german troops storming stalingrad.

units of the italian battalion m are sent to the eastern front. carries a warm fur coat on his knapsack, which will be very useful to him upon arrival at the place, the former farmstead is a large rassoshka, in the summer of 1900... forty-second year one of the lines of defense of stalingrad passed here. every year volgograd searchers find and rebury the remains of our soldiers here. across the road, the graves of former enemies, romanians and germans.

their cemeteries appeared here. on these granite blocks the names of about 130 thousand more german occupiers who went missing during the battle of stalingrad are carved, symbolically , the tombstones look like a huge stone directory of all existing german names and surnames:

hans, fritz, otto, adolf, wal... together with other europeans, they came here to destroy us, but in the end they themselves ingloriously rotted in the volga steppes, leaving behind an unkind black memory. here we find coins of all the european countries that helped hitler in the war against the soviet union. it is documented that there were austrian divisions here, a croatian regiment, as volunteers czechs, slovaks, poles, whoever was not here. many mechanics, drivers were czechs, traces of this we find directly here at the sites of battles, we found mauser rifles that were produced in czechoslovakia, the romanian army was armed with them, and here is also...

on july 2, 1941

, the croatian armed forces announced a call for volunteers willing to go to the east. soon, the 369th reinforced infantry regiment was formed from them, which received german military uniforms and took the oath of allegiance. adolf hitler. during the war, thousands of croatian volunteers joined various units of the wehrmacht, police units and the ss. in the fall of 1941 , the croatian air legion arrived on the eastern front. its pilots would fight in the area of poltava, taganrog, sevastopol and... mariupol. over the course of 2.5 years of war , they would shoot down a total of about 300 of our planes. a separate squadron of croatian bombers

would take part in raids on moscow and leningrad. in 1941, a croatian infantry regiment would arrive at eastern front and will take part in the battles for kremenchuk and kirovograd. in the autumn of 1942 , the germans will transfer it to stalingrad. the croatian regiment was the only non-german military formation that took part in the storming of the city blocks of stalingrad. the regiment command considered this a high honor, a special award from the german allies.

the soldiers were shocked by the density of russian fire and the fierce resistance of the city's defenders. lieutenant bukar recalled: when we entered stalingrad, it was all engulfed in flames and destroyed. we took cover in trenches and dugouts, as the enemy mowed us down with powerful artillery fire and katyusha rockets. the croatian regiment suffered its heaviest losses in the battles for the krasny oktyabr factory.

by november 3 , there were less than 200 soldiers and only four officers left in the ranks. the reinforcements that arrived to help met the same fate. they were all ground up in the stalingrad meat grinder or captured with the remnants of the army. the little that remains of the european conquerors can be seen today in the collections of the battle of stalingrad museum. among the most interesting items, here before us is a badge that belonged to a croatian soldier, where it was found here directly on the street of the city of stalingrad, which was worn either on the left pocket of a tunic, or it was also worn on caps, that is, it belonged to, well, croatian soldiers. as we can see here in the inscription, that is, the croatian legion, and the year is 1941, well, also here in our funds there is an interesting item, this is an officer's romanian cap, it is in such a bad condition,

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