Russian volunteer units with Axis forces
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German Army intelligence units related with the Russian cause

  • "Fremde Heere Ost" Intelligence Section
  • "Wehrmacht Propaganda IV" or "WPrIV"

German Commanders linked with Russian units

  • SS-Brigadeführer Christoph Diehm
  • SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Siegling
  • SS-Hauptsturmführer Albert Löffler
  • SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Henningfeld
  • SS-Brigadeführer Peter Hansen
  • SS-Standartenführer Gustav Lombard
    Gustav Lombard
    Gustav Lombard was an SS Brigadeführer who served in World War II. During World War II, Lombard commanded the 8. SS-Division Florian Geyer, 23. SS-Mountain Division Kama and the 31. SS-Volunteer Grenadier Division...

  • SS-Oberführer Constantin Heldmann

Russian Anti-Soviet Leaders and Commanders

  • Waffen-Brigadefuhrer der SS Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski
    Bronislaw Kaminski
    Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski was the commander of the S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. , an anti-partisan formation made up of people from the so-called Lokot Autonomy territory in the Nazi Germany occupied areas of Russia, which was later...

  • General Andrei Andreivich Vlasov
    Andrey Vlasov
    Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov or Wlassow was a Russian Red Army general who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.-Early career:...

  • General Mikhail Meandrov
    Mikhail Meandrov
    Mikhail Meandrov was a Soviet officer . Taken prisoner by the Germans in World War II near Leningrad in 1941, he later became an important commander in the Nazi-allied Russian Liberation Army. Taken prisoner by the Soviets, he was executed in 1946....

  • Generalmajor Sergei Bunyachenko
    Sergei Bunyachenko
    Sergei Kuzmich Bunyachenko , October 5, 1902 near Kursk – August 2, 1946 in Moscow) was a Soviet Red Army defector to the German side during World War II and a Major General in the anti-communist Russian Liberation Army movement...

  • Generalmajor Georgi A. Zverev
  • Officer Major Kostyenko
  • Officer Colonel Sakharov
  • Sonderfuhrer K-officer (later Major-General of Wehrmacht) Boris Smyslovsky
    Boris Smyslovsky
    Boris Alexeyevich Smyslovsky was a Russian general, émigré, and anti-communist. His pseudonyms were Artur Holmston and von Regenau...

    , a.k.a. Artur Holmston
  • Company Commander General Bredow
  • Regimental Commander General Zinkevich
  • Regimental Commander General Shatilov
  • Staff Commander General Gontarev
  • Officer Cadet Vasiliev
  • General Mikhail Skorodumov
    Mikhail Skorodumov
    Mikhail Skorodumov was a Russian general who participated in World War I, the White movement, and founded the Nazi-alled Russian Corps in Serbia during World War II....

  • General Boris Shteifon
    Boris Shteifon
    Boris Aleksandrovich Shteifon was a general in the Imperial Russian Army, who subsequently served as a general in the Russian anti-communist White army, and as the leader of the Nazi-allied Russian Corps in Serbia during World War II.-Biography:Shteifon was born on December 6, 1881 in the city of...

  • General Anatoly Rogozhin
    Anatoly Rogozhin
    Anatoli Ivanovich Rogozhin was a Russian officer who served in the Imperial Russian Army, the White Army, and was the last commander of the Russian Corps in Serbia during World War II....

  • SS Commander General Frolov

Russian political leaders

  • Konstantin Voskoboynik
  • Bronislaw Kaminski
    Bronislaw Kaminski
    Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski was the commander of the S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. , an anti-partisan formation made up of people from the so-called Lokot Autonomy territory in the Nazi Germany occupied areas of Russia, which was later...

  • Andrey Vlasov
    Andrey Vlasov
    Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov or Wlassow was a Russian Red Army general who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.-Early career:...

  • Konstantin Rodzaevsky
    Konstantin Rodzaevsky
    Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky was the leader of the Russian Fascist Party, which he led in exile from Manchuria, chief editor of the RFP "Nash Put".-Far Eastern Fascism:...

  • General Kislistin

Russian volunteers in German Army forces

  • "Hilfswillige
    Hiwi (volunteer)
    Hiwi is a German abbreviation. It has two meanings, "voluntary assistant" and "assistant scientist" .- :...

    " or "Hiwi" Russians
  • Osttruppen Russian Security forces
  • Ostlegionen
    Ostlegionen
    Ostlegionen or Osttruppen were conscripts and volunteers from the occupied eastern territories recruited into the German Army of the Third Reich during the Second World War....

     (Russian sections)
  • 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS RONA (1st Russian)
  • 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian)
    30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian)
    The 30th SS Grenadier Division was a German Waffen SS infantry division formed largely from Belarussian, Russian and Ukrainian personnel of the Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling in August 1944 at Warsaw, Poland. The division was moved by rail to southeastern France by mid-August 1944 to combat the...

  • 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian)
    29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian)
    The 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS or Legione SS Italiana was created on 10 February 1945 as the second SS-Division numbered 29. The first on the 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS , was disbanded. The new unit created in November 1943, was based on the Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade...

     (Russian volunteers unit)
  • Kaminski Brigade
    S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A.
    S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. was an anti-partisan formation composed of people from the so-called Lokot Autonomy territory in the Nazi Germany-occupied areas of Russia during World War II....

     (Waffen-Sturm-Brigade RONA, Volksheer-Brigade Kaminski)
  • Russian Liberation Army
    Russian Liberation Army
    Russian Liberation Army was a group of predominantly Russian forces subordinated to the Nazi German high command during World War II....

     (ROA)
  • Guard Corps Brigade of ROA
  • 2nd KONR Division (600. (Russische) Infanterie-Division)
  • 1st KONR Division (650. (Russische) Infanterie-Division)
  • 3rd KONR Division (in development still at the end of the war)
  • Freiwilligen-Stamm-Regiment 3 (Russians & Ukrainians)
  • Freiwilligen-Stamm-Regiment 4 (Russians & Ukrainians)
  • Freiwillige SS reg. "Warager" (Wrangel SS Regiment)
  • 1st Russian National People Army (1st RNA, also known as "Boyarski Brigade")
  • Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling
    Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling
    Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling - was a Nazi German auxiliary police brigade formed by 31 July 1944 at East Prussia from the retreated from Belarus dozen remnants of the SiPo, SD, Ordnungsdienst units, Kommandanturas personnel and BKA units composed from the Ukrainians, Belarusians,...

  • "Sonderheadquarters R" (special headquarters Russia)
  • "Special division R" (12 training reconnaissance battalions)
  • 1064th Russian Grenadier Regiment of 599 Russian Brigade
  • 1st Russian National SS brigade "Drushina"
  • Russian Corps
    Russian Corps
    The Russian Corps was an armed force composed of anti-communist Russian emigres that existed during the Second World War in German-occupied Serbia...

     (Russisches Schutzkorps or Russisches Schutzkorps Serbien)
  • Russian fighter volunteers in "Fehrbellin Platz", Berlin

Russian volunteers in the German Air Force

They were equipped with German and captured Soviet aircraft including: Arado Ar 66
Arado Ar 66
-See also:-References:* Smith, J.R and Kay, Antony L. German Aircraft of the Second World War. London: Putnam, 1972. ISBN 0-85177-836-4.-External links:*...

C, Gotha Go 145
Gotha Go 145
-See also:-Bibliography:* Bishop, C. Luftwaffe Squadrons, 1939–1945. Amber Books, 2006.* Donald, D. Warplanes of the Luftwaffe: Combat aircraft of Hitler’s Luftwaffe, 1933 -1945. Aerospace Publishing, 2001....

C, Polikarpov U-2 VS(Po-2) or Yakovlev Yak UT-2 (AIR-20) among other types for making night land attacks against Red Army
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 lines on the Eastern front. Their command HQ was detached in Minsk, Belarus.
  • 1.Ostfl.St.(Russische) (Eastern volunteers Sqdn.) (Minsk)
  • 1/NSGr.1 (Russische) (Kovno)
  • 2/NSGr.1 (Russische) (Kovno)
  • Stab I./Eins.Gr.Fl.Sch.Div. (Russische) (Borisov)
  • Russisch Lehr Fl. Div. (Air Training operative Div). (Borisov)
  • 2/Eins.Gr.Fl.Sch Div. (Russische) (Borisov)
  • 3/Eins.Gr.Fl.Sch.Div. (Russische) (Borisov)
  • 1/Eins.Gr.Fl.Sch.Div. (Russische) (Dubinskaya)

Newspapers

  • Dobrovoletz (Der Freiwillige) – Russian volunteer units
  • Novoye Slovo — Official political news of Andrei Vlasov, in Berlin

Russian right parties and political organizations

  • Narodnaya Socialisticheskaya Partiya (Russian National Socialist Party), later renamed Nacional-Socialisticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya Rossii (National-Socialist Labour Party of Russia) with first led by K. Voskoboynik, later for Bronislav Kaminski, in Lokot Autonomy, a Russian autonomous area not under direct German control.
  • Russian National Committee (Narodnaya Rossiya Komitet)
  • Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
    Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
    The Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia was a committee composed of military and civilian anticommunists from territories of the Soviet Union...

     (Komitet Osvobozhyeniya Narodov Rossii) (KONR), movements led by General Andrey Vlasov
    Andrey Vlasov
    Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov or Wlassow was a Russian Red Army general who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.-Early career:...

    .
  • Smolensk Manifesto
  • Prague Manifesto also Hdraschin Manifesto
  • Russian Propaganda Schools

See also

  • Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II
  • Reichskommissariat Moskowien
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