1942- One Last Opportunity: The German Experience with Indigenous Security Forces
Bronislav Kaminski, leader of the RONA. by Major Bob E. Willis Jr. U.S. Army The German Army had one last opportunity in 1942 to recover from its failure to secure the occupied areas and pre-empt the massive expansion of the partisan war to an uncontrollable scale. A number of senior field commanders that understood the reality of the situation…
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