Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII

Waffen-SS 'Unit Ezquerra'

After the Blue Legion was withdrawn it became illegal for Spaniards to serve on the Axis side. None the less, some of the volunteers refused to return to Spain, and volunteers continued to sneak across the border into France.
Most of these recruits joined the Waffen SS, however, some Spanish platoons were attached to the 3rd Mountain Division and the 357th Infantry Division. Two companies of Spaniards performed anti-Partisan work in Yugoslavia as part of the Brandenburg unit. In September 1944 one of these companies was sent to Austria, where it became the Spanische-Freiwilligen-Kompanie der SS 101. A second company (102) was soon formed. The 101 Company was attached to the 28th Waffen SS Division (Wallonien) and saw heavy action in Pomerania.
In the end, the 101st was attached to the 11th SS Division Nordland.




In April 1945 Colonel Miguel Ezquerra Sanchez commanded the three companies of Waffen-SS 'Unit Ezquerra'. The unit was formed from:

• 100 Spaniards who, like Ezquera himself, had served in the Blue Division, but remained in German service. (Ezquera had been a Blue Division Captain.)
• 150 Spanish recruits who had secretly crossed the Spanish/French border which had been closed by Franco.
• Some survivors from Belgian and French SS Divisions.

The men of 'Unit Ezquerra' were amongst the last troops fighting the Russians in the rubble of Berlin. Ezquerra survived the battle, and later escaped from Russian imprisonment to return to Spain.


1939 - 45 Spanish Involvement in WWII

Waffen-SS 'Unit Ezquerra'

Originally Posted by Nachtjager

If you get stuck, you could always mention German's Army Group North/Courland who remained fighting the soviets since the beginning of operation Barbarossa untill the end of the war in West Prussia. The only problem is that I think they we not all waffen SS and they didn't fight till the death, they fought untill they were ordered to surrender.