Als die spanischen Faschisten (Ost)Europa entdeckten: zur Russlanderfahrung der 'Blauen Division' (1941-1944)

'The article deals with the different adaptations of the Fascist concept of Europe which were elaborated by Spanish Fascist milieus from 1939 to 1945, and stresses the importance of Catholicism as a component of the contradictory European views of Phalangists. There was also an ambivalent idea of what Eastern Europe and particularly Russia was, which in its turn was very impregnated by the image o…