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Russian Liberation Army

Index Russian Liberation Army

The Russian Liberation Army (Russische Befreiungsarmee; 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. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 81 relations: Abbreviation, Air force, Alfred Rosenberg, Allies of World War II, Andrey Vlasov, Antisemitism, Battle of Nuremberg (1945), Battle of Stalingrad, Belgium, Collaboration in the German-occupied Soviet Union, Committee, Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, Communism, Czechs, De jure, Defection, Eastern Front (World War II), Finland, First Russian National Army, France, George S. Patton, German Army (1935–1945), German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war, Heinrich Himmler, Helmuth von Pannwitz, Hinterschellenberg, Hiwi (volunteer), Infantry, International Security (journal), Italy, Kaminski Brigade, Lager Heuberg, Münsingen, Germany, Mikhail Meandrov, Moscow, Normandy, Normandy landings, Oberkommando des Heeres, Operation Keelhaul, Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, Ostarbeiter, Ostlegionen, Plutocracy, Prague, Prague offensive, Prague uprising, Prisoner of war, Rada, Ranks and insignia of the German Army (1935–1945), Red Army, ... Expand index (31 more) »

  2. Foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht
  3. Russian collaborators with Nazi Germany

Abbreviation

An abbreviation (from Latin, meaning "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis.

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Air force

An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare.

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Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (– 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German Nazi theorist and ideologue.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Andrey Vlasov

Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Андрей Андреевич Власов, – 1 August 1946) was a Soviet Red Army general and collaborator with Germany.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Battle of Nuremberg (1945)

The Battle of Nuremberg was a five-day battle between the forces of the United States 7th Army on one side, and Nazi Germany and Russian Liberation Army volunteers on the other during the last days of World War II.

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Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of StalingradSchlacht von Stalingrad see; p (17 July 19422 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Collaboration in the German-occupied Soviet Union

A large number of Soviet citizens of various ethnicities collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. Russian Liberation Army and Collaboration in the German-occupied Soviet Union are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht.

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Committee

A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization.

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Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

The Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (Комитет освобождения народов России, Komitet osvobozhdeniya narodov Rossii, abbreviated as КОНР, KONR) was a committee composed of military and civilian Nazi collaborators from territories of the Soviet Union (most being Russians). Russian Liberation Army and committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia are Russian collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.

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De jure

In law and government, de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.

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Defection

In politics, a defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one state in exchange for allegiance to another, changing sides in a way which is considered illegitimate by the first state.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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First Russian National Army

The 1st Russian National Army was a Russian pro-Axis army under Boris Smyslovsky, a Russian nobleman and former Tsarist guard officer, during World War II. Russian Liberation Army and First Russian National Army are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht and Russian collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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George S. Patton

George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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German Army (1935–1945)

The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946.

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German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war

During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to deadly conditions.

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.

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Helmuth von Pannwitz

Helmuth von Pannwitz (14 October 1898 – 16 January 1947) was a German general who was a cavalry officer during the First and the Second World Wars.

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Hinterschellenberg

Hinterschellenberg is a settlement in Schellenberg, Liechtenstein.

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Hiwi (volunteer)

Hiwi, the German abbreviation of the word Hilfswilliger or, in English, auxiliary volunteer, designated, during World War II, a member of different kinds of voluntary auxiliary forces made up of recruits indigenous to the territories of Eastern Europe occupied by Nazi Germany. Russian Liberation Army and Hiwi (volunteer) are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht.

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Infantry

Infantry is a specialization of military personnel who engage in warfare combat.

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International Security (journal)

International Security is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of international and national security.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Kaminski Brigade

Kaminski Brigade, also known as Waffen-Sturm-Brigade RONA, was a collaborationist formation composed of Russian nationals from the territory of the Lokot Autonomy in Axis-occupied areas of the RSFSR, Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. Russian Liberation Army and Kaminski Brigade are Russian collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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Lager Heuberg

Lager Heuberg (Camp Heuberg) is a Bundeswehr quarters located in the southern corner of the Truppenübungsplatz Heuberg (Heuberg military training area) in (Baden-Württemberg), near the city of Stetten am kalten Markt.

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Münsingen, Germany

Münsingen (Swabian: Mensenga) is a town in the district of Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Mikhail Meandrov

Mikhail Alekseyevich Meandrov (Михаи́л Алексе́евич Меа́ндров) (22 October 1894 – 1 August 1946) was an Imperial Russian and later Soviet officer.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Oberkommando des Heeres

The Oberkommando des Heeres (abbreviated OKH) was the high command of the Army of Nazi Germany.

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Operation Keelhaul

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.

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Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists

The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN; Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv) was a Ukrainian nationalist organization established in 1929 in Vienna, uniting the Ukrainian Military Organization with smaller, mainly youth, radical nationalist right-wing groups.

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Ostarbeiter

Ostarbeiter ("Eastern worker") was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labor in Germany during World War II.

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Ostlegionen

Ostlegionen ("eastern legions"), Ost-Bataillone ("eastern battalions"), Osttruppen ("eastern troops"), and Osteinheiten ("eastern units") were units in the Army of Nazi Germany during World War II made up of personnel from the Soviet Union. Russian Liberation Army and Ostlegionen are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht.

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Plutocracy

A plutocracy or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Prague offensive

The Prague offensive (lit) was the last major military operation of World War II in Europe.

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Prague uprising

The Prague uprising (Pražské povstání) was a partially successful attempt by the Czech resistance movement to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation in May 1945, during the end of World War II.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Rada

Rada is the term for "parliament" or "assembly" or some other "council" in several Slavic languages.

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Ranks and insignia of the German Army (1935–1945)

The Heer as the German army and part of the Wehrmacht inherited its uniforms and rank structure from the Reichsheer of the Weimar Republic (1921–1935).

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Repatriation

Repatriation is the return of a thing or person to its or their country of origin, respectively.

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The Russian All National Popular State Movement (in Russian: Rossiyskoe Obschenatsional'noe Narodno Derzhavnoe Dvizheniye, abbreviated as RONDD, Cyrillic: Российское Общенациональное Народно Державное Движение, abbreviated as РОНДД) was a Russian political émigré organization based primarily in West Germany that sought to unite the participants of the Russian Liberation Army and the anti-communist Russian white émigrés.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.

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Russian Protective Corps

The Russian Protective Corps (Russisches Schutzkorps, Русский охранный корпус, Руски заштитни корпус / Ruski zaštitni korpus) was an armed force composed of anti-communist White Russian émigrés that was raised in the German occupied territory of Serbia during World War II. Russian Liberation Army and Russian Protective Corps are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht.

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Russian Volunteer Corps

The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC; Russkiy dobrovolcheskiy korpus, RDK) is a far-right paramilitary unit of Russian citizens, based in Ukraine.

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Russians

Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.

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Semyon Bychkov (pilot)

Semyon Trofimovich Bychkov (Семён Трофимович Бычков; 15 May 1918 – 4 November 1946) was a Soviet military pilot during World War II.

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Sergei Bunyachenko

Sergei Kuzmich Bunyachenko (Серге́й Кузьми́ч Буняче́нко, Сергій Кузьмич Буняченко; 5 October 1902 – 1 August 1946) was a Soviet Red Army defector to the German side during World War II and a major general in the collaborationist Russian Liberation Army (ROA).

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Soviet Air Forces

The Soviet Air Forces (r, VVS SSSR; literally "Military Air Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"; initialism VVS, sometimes referred to as the "Red Air Force", were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial Russian Air Service in 1917, and faced their greatest test during World War II.

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Soviet partisans

Soviet partisans were members of resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against Axis forces during World War II in the Soviet Union, the previously Soviet-occupied territories of interwar Poland in 1941–45 and eastern Finland.

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Surrender (military)

Surrender, in military terms, is the relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power.

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Treason

Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.

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Ukrainian Insurgent Army

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (translit, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and partisan formation founded by the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on 14 October 1942.

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Ukrainian Liberation Army

The Ukrainian Liberation Army (Українське Визвольне Військо, УВВ; Ukrainske Vyzvolne Viysko, UVV) was an umbrella organization created in 1943, providing collective name for all Ukrainian units serving with the German Army during World War II. Russian Liberation Army and Ukrainian Liberation Army are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht.

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Ukrainian National Army

The Ukrainian National Army (abbreviated) was a World War II Ukrainian military group, created on March 17, 1945, in the town of Weimar, Nazi Germany, and subordinate to Ukrainian National Committee.

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United States Army Central

The United States Army Central, formerly the Third United States Army, commonly referred to as the Third Army and as ARCENT, is a military formation of the United States Army that saw service in World War I and World War II, in the 1991 Gulf War, and in the coalition occupation of Iraq.

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Waffen-SS

The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation.

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We Are Marching in Wide Fields

"We Are Marching in Wide Fields" ("My idyom shirokimi polyami") was the march of the Russian Liberation Army (RLA), which fought in World War II on the side of Nazi Germany.

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Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts

Among the approximately one million foreign volunteers and conscripts who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II were ethnic Belgians, Czechs, Dutch, Finns, Danes, French, Hungarians, Norwegians, Poles, Portuguese, Swedes, Swiss along with people from Great Britain, Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Balkans. Russian Liberation Army and Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht.

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Western Front (World War II)

The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The Italian front is considered a separate but related theatre. The Western Front's 1944–1945 phase was officially deemed the European Theater by the United States, whereas Italy fell under the Mediterranean Theater along with the North African campaign.

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White émigré

White Russian émigrés were Russians who emigrated from the territory of the former Russian Empire in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and who were in opposition to the revolutionary Bolshevik communist Russian political climate.

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White movement

The White movement (p), also known as the Whites (Бѣлые / Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II (1939–1945).

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps

The XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps was a World War II cavalry corps of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party, primarily recruited from Cossacks. Russian Liberation Army and XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht and Russian collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)

The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) (14.; translit), commonly referred to as the Galicia Division, was a World War II infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the German Nazi Party, made up predominantly of volunteers with a Ukrainian ethnic background from the area of Galicia, later also with some Slovaks.

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2nd Army (Wehrmacht)

The 2nd Army (2.) was a field army of the German Army during World War II.

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44th Infantry Division (United States)

The 44th Infantry Division was a division of the United States Army National Guard from October 1920 to November 1945, when it was inactivated after Federal Service during World War II.

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600th Infantry Division

The 600th (Russian) Infantry Division was a military division that was formed by the German Army during the World War II. Russian Liberation Army and 600th Infantry Division are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht and Russian collaborators with Nazi Germany.

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650th Infantry Division

The 650th (Russian) Infantry Division was a military division that was formed by the German Army during World War II. Russian Liberation Army and 650th Infantry Division are foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht.

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6th Army (Wehrmacht)

The 6th Army (6.) was a field army of the German Army during World War II.

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See also

Foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht

Russian collaborators with Nazi Germany

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Army

Also known as Russian Army of Liberation, Russische Befreiungsarmee, Russkaia Osvoboditelnaia Armiia, Vlasov Army, Vlasovtsy, РОА.

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