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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.

The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945addresses the history and memory of the Spanish volunteers that served alongside the German army in the invasion of Russia.