Anger in Spain at vandalism of memorial to German fighter pilot

Memorial to German airman shot down in Spanish civil war had been looked after by Spanish ace who killed him

A group that celebrates the republican pilots who fought fascism in the skies over Spain has condemned the vandalism of a memorial stone to a German airman that was looked after by an unlikely visitor - the Spanish ace who killed him.

Friedrich Windemuth, a member of the notorious Condor Legion sent by Hitler to aid Franco during the Spanish civil war, died after being shot down over northern Catalonia by the Spanish pilot Jose Falco in February 1939.