March 1942: General Agustín Muñoz Grandes, commanding the Spanish volunteer División Azul (Blue Division) fighting on the side of the Wehrmacht in Russia, receives the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and get the Oak Leaves personally added by Hitler on 12. Dezember 1942. After the war, Grandes became Minister of Defense in the Franco dictatorial government and, eventually, First Vice President of Spain. He died in 1970.
Rekrutenangelobung beim Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 138 (3. Gebirgs-Division) in der Turba-Kaserne in Pinkafeld am 31. Mai 1939
Germans respecting the enemy - A RAF airman is buried with full military honors by German soldiers, Channel Islands, 1943