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The Russian Liberation Army (German: Russische Befreiungsarmee; Russian: Русская освободительная армия, Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, abbreviated as РОА, ROA, also known as the Vlasov army (Власовская армия, Vlasovskaya armiya) was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II.
The RONA insignia. The 29.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS „RONA” (russische Nr. 1), also known as the Russian Liberation People's Army (Russian: Русская освободительная народная армия, РОНА; transcription: Russkaya osvoboditel'naya narodnaya armiya, RONA), and as the Kaminski Brigade, was a collaborationist formation composed of Russian nationals ...
The Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (Russian: Комитет освобождения народов России, Komitet osvobozhdeniya narodov Rossii, abbreviated as Russian: КОНР, KONR) was composed of military and civilian collaborators with Nazi Germany from territories of the Soviet Union, most of them being ethnic Russians, and was the political authority of ...
We Are Marching in Wide Fields" [a] was the march of the Russian Liberation Army (RLA), which fought in World War II on the side of Nazi Germany. The text was written in June 1943 by Anatoly Flaume (under the pseudonym A. Florov), Mikhail Davydov wrote the music.
The Russian Liberation Army 1941: Red Army troops storming an apartment block amidst the ruins of war-torn Stalingrad during World War II. (Georgi Zelma/Slava Katamidze Collection/Getty Images ...
The St. Andrew's Flag, used by Russian Liberation Army and the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. Mass collaboration ensued after the German invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941, Operation Barbarossa. [1] The two main forms of mass collaboration in the Nazi-occupied territories were both military in nature
Operation Keelhaul was a forced repatriation of Soviet citizens and members of the Soviet Army in the West to the Soviet Union (although it often included former soldiers of the Russian Empire or Russian Republic, who did not have Soviet citizenship) after World War II.
Russian émigrés and defectors from the Soviet Union formed the Russian Liberation Army or fought as Hilfswillige within German units of the Wehrmacht primarily on the Eastern Front. [7] Non-Russians from the Soviet Union formed the Ostlegionen (literally "Eastern Legions"). The East Legions comprized a total of 175,000 personnel. [8]