When the Germans occupied the western territories of the Soviet Union, many of these prisoners formed military and police units of varying size which were used by the Germans in rear-echelon areas to fight Soviet partisans and terrorize the civilian populace. We must keep in mind, however, that at the time other large collaborationist forces were also fighting arm in arm with the Germans.įrom the very first weeks of the war against the Soviet Union, the Germans used numerous Red Army POWs as auxiliary troops. Among these soldiers, collectively referred to by the residents of Warsaw as “Kalmyks”, “Ukrainians” or “Vlasovtsy soldiers”, one unit gained particular infamy: the RONA Brigade ( Russkaja Oswoboditjelnaja Narodnaja Armja, Russian National Liberation Army), whose soldiers perpetrated the massacre of the residents of Ochota in August 1944. The brutal pacification of the Warsaw Uprising and the residents of Warsaw in 1944 brings to mind not only the cruelty of the Germans, but also the savagery of the infamous auxiliary units in German service. Russians in the Service of the Third Reich – Bronislav Kaminski’s RONA
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