from the army in 1938, when hitler cleansed the army of not entirely nazi-minded generals, he expelled leeby, naturally, when the war began, he brought leeb in when he received orders to stop the offensive and to impose on leningrad, he first went on the offensive, he made the last attempt, leningrad, there is nothing there near leningrad, that is, everything must be led from somewhere, so he declared in his entourage it was recorded that we will not feed the leningraders, that is, not there should be fighting in the streets, there should be no need to feed the population, and let the troops there slowly die of starvation. in the first half of october , the 250th spanish infantry division arrived near leningrad to help the germans. spanish soldiers usually wore blue or blue shirts and therefore this connection was often called the blue division. it was formed in madrid in july 1941. mostly volunteers were recruited into the division. these people went to distant russia for ideological reasons. according to them, they wanted to get even with the communists, whom they considered guilty of sta