The Condor Legion was a unit composed of volunteers from the
German Air Force (Luftwaffe) and from the German Army (Wehrmacht) which served
with the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War of July 1936 to March 1939.
The Condor Legion developed methods of terror bombing which
were used widely in the Second World War shortly afterwards. The bombing of
Guernica was the most infamous operation carried out by the Condor Legion.
Hugo Sperrle commanded the unit's aircraft formations and
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma commanded the ground element. In a cynical adaptation
of culture, members of the Condor Legion wore Basque berets.
That beret label and insignia pins are damn creepy.
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