This has all happened before…
Here we see a very cold German-made Spanish Army Leopard 2E main battle tank and an ASCOD BMP Pizarro (the Spanish Army version of the Austrian Ulan and British Ajax) during a training exercise in Latvia, 13 Feb 2018.
The aspect of Spanish troops using German equipment in the snow somewhere East of Warsaw is not a new one.
I give you, División Azul:
Just saying.
The Spanish Blue division though not matching the discipline of the German Army won its admiration for its “crazy bravery.” When the division was withdrawn a regimental sized combat group was left behind, and when Franco pulled this out, die hard anti communists formed a battalion sized unit which was assigned to the SS.