250th Spanish Blue Division

[Aetius]

This is an extract form the feldgrau website. The complete history of the division can be found here: http://www.feldgrau.com/InfDiv.php?ID=163

"(...) After being transported via rail to Poland, the division was left to continue its transfer to the front on foot. Setting out on August 29th, 1941, the division headed for Smolensk over 1,000 miles away marching four abreast in a column that stretched over 30 miles long. Each regiment of the division occupied a span of over 8 miles. Every six miles the division stopped to rest for but a few minutes. The division initially passed through Vilna, Grodno, Molodeschno, Minsk and later arrived in Orsha just outside of Smolensk. All of the cities the division passed through were wholly or partly in ruins, devastated by the German advance and terrible fighting that had taken place in the days and weeks prior to their arrival. On September 25th, 1941, nearly one month after embarking on its grueling foot march, lead elements of the division crossed the Dnieper River at Gusino and set up camp at Svetitsy about 40 miles outside of Smolensk. The rest of the division was stretched out to the west with the rear of the divisional column stopping in Orsha. The next day consisted of a much needed rest, during which - much to the suprise of the division - orders were issued to countermarch back through Orsha and to move towards Vitebsk a little over 100 miles to the north. The division had now been assigned for service in the siege of Leningrad under Armeegruppe Nord, 16.Armee instead of taking part in the attack on Moscow under Armeegruppe Mitte as had been anticipated for the duration of the transit.

On September 27th, 1941, the division headed out once more in a long column formation to reach Vitebsk to the north. Once there, the lead elements entrained for the more than 450 mile trip to their final destination along the front - the region of Novgorod along the shores of Lake Ilemn and the Volkhov River. The 250.Infanterie-Division was to replace the 126.Infanterie-Division deployed defensively along a 40 mile front on the shores of the Volkhov just north of Novgorod. Starting on October 7th, 1941, lead elements of the division began arriving at the front and even took casualties, namely, portions of Artillerie-Regiment 250. On the same day portions of the Artillerie-Regiment were starting to take over the positions of the 126.Infanterie-Division, other units of the division were still bording trains in Vitebsk for the rail transport north! On October 10th, new orders were issued for the division to shift its positions along the Volkhov to the south, and to instead replace the positions of the 18.Infanterie-Division (mot.). This obviously made the situation somewhat confused as portions of the division were already in the process of taking over positions of the 126.Infanterie-Division. To fix the situation it was decided that those positions of the 126th that the division had replaced would remain occupied, as they were luckily all located to the south, and that the positions of the 18th, located even further south of the 126th, would be fully replaced. Thus, the 250.Infanterie-Division would occupy a front of more than 50 miles from the northern tip of Lake Ilmen in the south to just south of Miasnoi Bor at Zmeisko in the north - the former positions of the entire 18.Infanterie-Division (mot.) and the southern portion of the lines of the 126.Infanterie-Division, now shifted to the north, but still along the Volkhov. (...)"

So I guess the division will only show up in the Leningrad title.