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Junkers Ju 87A with Condor Legion markings “Condor Legion” infantry training school in Ávila, Spain. Condor legionnaires celebrated on cover of the Nazi air ministry’s magazine, June 1939 The remilitarization of the Rhineland profoundly altered the balance of international relations in Europe. Up to this point, as had been made abundantly clear in 1923, the […]

Count Ernst von Mansfeld proved a resourceful and tenacious opponent. Having failed to break through north-west Bohemia and join Jägerndorf in May 1621, he entrenched 13,000 men at Waidhaus on the Nuremberg–Pilsen road just inside the Upper Palatinate. The remaining 2,000 were posted in Amberg and Cham to cover his rear against the Bavarians while […]