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Panzerjager Brigade Russland
In February 1945 the striking anti-tank brigade “Russia” was formed from the ROA soldiers and officers. 1,200 persons served in it under the command of Colonel Galkin. The brigade was subordinated to anti-tank division “Vistula” and fought hard on the river Oder. They called it “fire brigade” because it fought on the most dangerous front zones. In the beginning of…
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Ukraine and Nationalism WWII
INTERWAR UKRAINE The Ukrainian territories under Bolshevik control had been constituted as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which in 1922 became a founding member of the Soviet Union. Although it possessed all the structures and symbols of an independent state, Soviet Ukraine was effectively governed from Moscow. During the early…
Prague 1945
Until the end of April Bohemia, Moravia, and the Sudetenland lay quietly, like an enchanted island, amid the tempests all around. In March of 1939 the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia had been made into a “Protectorate” under German domination. Future generations will perhaps see nothing unusual in the…
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…