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Episode 41, the Spanish Civil War Part 6, International involvement.

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information. Perhaps the most well-known part of the Spanish Civil War is not the events of the war

itself, but instead the involvement of other nations in the conflict. As the coup became a civil

war, both the Nationalists and the Republicans reached out to various governments around Europe

in search of

assistance. The nationalists would begin almost immediately to receive that assistance from Germany

and Italy, support which came in the form of military advisors, troops, equipment, and supplies.

The most famous piece of this assistance was probably the Condor Legion, the squadrons of German aircraft, that

would assist the nationalist military and be involved in one of the most well-known incidents

of the war with the bombing of Gurneika in 1937.

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