GERMANY’S PRACTICE WAR

madrid, 1936

a German officer, who has brought his camera to spain, poses with his adjutants and one of Franco’s generals. hitler had supplied men and materiel in support of the civil war that erupted in July 1936 between fascist and republican forces. Franco’s victory established the third far-right state in europe, along with Germany and italy. the spanish conflict ended on 1 april 1939, exactly five months prior to Germany’s invasion of poland.