Chapter 16:
Franco, who had previously treated Germany as a step below Italy, began to show immense favor to Germany after the Condor Legion's great performance in the Battle of Brunete.
I'm not a working-level official in diplomacy, so I don't know the details, but if things follow the Original History, Germany would receive various rewards, like resource mining rights.
Though the insatiable Nazis would exploit them so much that it would become the main reason Franco would refuse to join the Axis powers in World War II.
Time flows like water.
After receiving a recommendation from Colonel Model and fighting in a few more minor battles, my admission to the War Academy was confirmed, and I was able to get a promotion to Captain.
I was a bit surprised by the unusually fast promotion, less than a year after becoming a First Lieutenant, but it was apparently made possible thanks to the superiors in the Condor Legion, including Colonel Model and Lieutenant Colonel Richthofen, who argued for my contribution to the military gains in the Battle of Brunete with the 88 Anti-aircraft Gun.
When I first saw Richthofen, my impression was that of a madman who rained incendiary bombs on civilians, but he was surprisingly kind to me, and now my gratitude for him has grown.
If he is to remain merely a warlike patriot, Germany must not create situations where they have to drop incendiary bombs on civilians.
And then there was Colonel Walther Model.