LEGION CONDOR
Picture Book for Training in the Hitler Youth Program
The Leader on June 6, 1939:
A terrible, threatening fate has appeared on our continent.
At one time I sent you out,‌
To help an unhappy land‌
to support a heroic man‌
Who, as a fervent patriot, wanted to save his country from destruction‌
and has done it gloriously.�
“The German volunteers o have accomplished admirable things!�
German trainers instruct Spanish volunteers‌
German tanks proceed, followed by Spanish flame throwers‌
In untiring service with light weapons‌
and with the most modern German war equipment.
A warm friendship connected the Spanish and the German
the German legionnaire and the Spanish soldier and thereby created
“Whenever the struggle became the greatest, the ‘Legion
German anti-tank weapons protected the retreating infantry from
German reporters under the hot skies in Spain‌
Light anti-aircraft cannons supported the attack‌
Heavy cannon batteries in firing position‌
Faced with the determination of the legionnaires and the superiority of the German materiel, the enemy counter attack collapsed.
“For the first time the young German Air Force appeared as
German dive bombers attack a Red Spanish harbor.
With the best machines in the world‌
the German fighters‌
in silent fulfilment ...
shoot down the red opponent.
The Legion continued the tradition of the World War.
German bombs brought confusion and destruction‌
And into its impregnable battle positions.
The Leader to his legionnaires:
All of Germany greets you‌
in proud joy and in heartfelt solidarity‌
You have now returned as the brave executors of my
I am so proud of you! The entire German nation is equally proud‌
“They have fallen, but their death and their suffering will
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