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Freiwillige SS Reg. Warager
In March 1942 the formation of volunteer battalion began in Belgrad. It was done under the order of the Commander-in-Chief in the Balkans who wanted to recruit Russian volunteers for the landing operation near Novorossiysk. The battalion was formed under the command of Captain M. A. Semenov and was a combatant infantry detachment with the strength of 600 persons. The…
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RUSSIAN NATIONALS IN GERMAN SERVICE
It is truly ironic that the most numerous units of foreign nationals raised by the Germans during World War II came from among the “sub-human” Slavs of the Soviet Union. Faced with waging war in a country of vast distances and infested with enemy partisans, the Germans had no choice…
Article: Answering Vlasov’s Call: Memory and Slovene Perceptions of the Osttruppen, 1945
Gregor Kranjc Using archival evidence, this article reveals atrocities committed by the Varjag regiment, a nominal part of General Vlasov’s anti-communist Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, in Slovenia in the final months of World War II. The fact that the Varjag unit mistreated a civilian population…
FILM: Vlasov: General for Two Devils
Germany, 1995, b&w/Color, 59 minutes, English commentary and subtitles. Patriot or traitor? More than one-half century after his execution, General Andrei Vlasov remains one of World War II’s most controversial figures. A brilliant Soviet commander, Vlasov was captured by the German Wehrmacht in July, 1942, and soon became central to…
Vlasov -The End
In and around Prague the Germans were rather weak. Their forces consisted mostly of S.S. troops with some heavy tanks but no artillery. But of course the Czech forces were badly equipped too. The heaviest fighting took place in the outskirts of the city where the Germans were opposed by…
Collaboration with Nazi Germany – The Soviet Union
Many inhabitants of the eastern portions of the Soviet Union, such as the Baltic States and Ukraine, openly welcomed the German army as their liberator and collaborated fully with it, until they discovered that German occupation policies were even more repressive than Soviet rule had been. In 1943 alone, as…
Warsaw Uprising – Wola 1944 Order of Battle
The map of 200 places, where Germans murdered 50 thousand dwellers of the district of Wola during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Soldiers from Kolegium “A” of Kedyw on Stawki Street in Wola district – Warsaw Uprising 1944. A German strike was delivered from the direction of the Wola district on…