Miguel Ezquerra

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[edit] MIGUEL EZQUERRA

Miguel Ezquerra Sanchez (1903? - 1984). Spanish Military, did it combat in the Spanish Civil War and in the Second World War, framed in an unit of the Blue Division or 250. Infanterie-Division in the German Army, in the area of Leningrado, where it will participate in the terrible Battle of Krasny Bor.

Later, once the Blue Division already repatriated, April 2 1944 cross the Hispanic-French frontier secretly to sign up in the Wehrmacht, where it ends up being official of the Waffen-SS.

As part of the 11 voluntary Division Nordland of the SS Panzergrenadier and with the range of SS-Haupsturmführer, Miguel Ezquerra fought the last days of the war against the troops sovietic in Berlin, commanding an unit formed by Spaniards, which were the last defenders of the ring formed to protect the búnker of Hitler.

Miguel Ezquerra was author of the book "Berlin to life or death". Few data are known on him, later life to the war and death. But in what is agreed it is that it was one of the biggest Spanish combatants in the Second World War. He received several recognitions for their value and loyal action in battle, receiving the distinction of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross^{[citation needed]} and the German nationality granted personally by the same Adolf Hitler. (Cfr. Interview Review N. 339, Madrid, November 1982). [1]

From the year 1995, the remains of Ezquerra rest next to those of their comrades in the Vault of the Blue Division in cemetery of the Almudena of Madrid, located in the plateau 3ª, area A of this cemetery.