The Condor Legion was a secret military unit from Nazi Germany's air force and army that fought alongside the Nationalist faction during the <a href="/article/spanish-civil-war">Spanish Civil War</a>. It served as a crucial testing ground for new weapons and tactics, especially strategic bombing, which later became central to <a href="/article/world-war-ii">World War II</a>. Its most infamous act was the devastating bombing of <a href="/article/guernica">Guernica</a>.
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