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The '''Portuguese Legion''' ({{lang-pt|Legião Portuguesa}}) was a [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[paramilitary]] state organization founded in 1936 during the Portuguese President of the Council´s [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]'s
Its stated objectives were to "''defend the spiritual heritage [of Portugal]''" and to "''fight the [[communist]] threat and [[anarchism]]''". During [[World War II]], the Portuguese Legion was the only Portuguese state organization that openly adopted and defended [[Hitler]]'s aims for [[Europe]], some of them joined the German Army during the war, after the war the Portuguese Legion and Portugal itself were seen as fascists, so the Portuguese Legion lost some power.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}.
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