Condor Legion - Ian Westwell

Condor Legion: The Wehrmacht's Training Ground by Ian Westwell describes how Hitler used the Spanish civil war as a training ground for his own later air wars. On 27 July 1936, Adolf Hitler sent the Nationalists 26 German fighter aircraft. He also sent 30 Junkers 52s from Berlin and Stuttgart to Morocco. Over the next couple of weeks the aircraft transported over 15,000 troops to Spain. In September 1936, Lieutenant Colonel Walther Warlimont of the German General Staff arrived as the German commander and military adviser to General Francisco Franco. The following month Warlimont suggested that a German Condor Legion should be formed to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

Softcover, 96pp.