Yugoslav fighters in Spanish Civil War
Flag of the International Brigades Yugoslavs who fought as volunteers in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side are called "Spanish fighters" or "Yugoslav Spaniards". Belgrade Association of Spanish troops is in possession of information that there were 1.755 volunteers from Yugoslavia in international brigades and other units of the Spanish Republican Army, of which 595 were killed in Spain and 116 were killed later in the National Liberation Struggle. Battalion Duro Dakovic in Spain. National identity was not important, but the available data suggest that the majority of the Yugoslav fighters wereCroats (48 %), followed by Slovenians (23%), Serbs (18%), Montenegrins (3.2%) and Macedonians (1.5%) .German and Jewish names were also on the list of fighters. The same incomplete data says that the according to political affiliation there were communists (561), social democrats (10 %), members of the Croatian Peasant Party (8 %), anarchists ...