It was a unit of Spanish volunteers that formed an infantry division to fight against the Soviet Union in World War II. It was framed within the Heer, army of Nazi Germany. Between 1941 and 1943, about 50,000 Spanish and some Portuguese soldiers participated in various battles mainly related to the siege of Leningrad.
146 women were also part of the division, from the so-called Women’s Section, who traveled as nurses in the newly created Corps of Auxiliary Ladies of Military Health under the direction of María de las Mercedes Milá Nolla.
Luis Fernando Ruiz Valdez 