A diary of the Wehrmacht’s Russian officer 1941-1942.

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Otto Weber
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A diary of the Wehrmacht’s Russian officer 1941-1942.

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Zavadsky R. V. Own’s alien war. A diary of the Wehrmacht’s Russian officer 1941-1942.

We’re glad to introduce you a unique publication, which has just hit the shelves in Russia! Sorry, only in Russian. 322 pages.

Rostislav Vadimovich Zavadsky was born in St-Petersburg in 1908 in a noble family. After the revolution he emigrated with his parents. He graduated from the First Russian Cadet Corps in Sarajevo (Serbia), and later finished Russian Rifle General Vrangel’s Druzhina (Russkaia Strelkovaia Druzhina) in Belgium. With Germany’s attack on USSR he joined the ranks of the Wallon legion (Legion Wallonie, 373rd infantry battalion) and came to the front as an interpreter. Unique document gives its reader an opportunity to see the world through the eyes of an emigrant, who decided to take part in a war against USSR on the German side. The publication is supplemented with rare photographs and materials, part of which have never been published before.
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Otto Weber
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Re: A diary of the Wehrmacht’s Russian officer 1941-1942.

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To whom it may concern:
An article, dealing directly with the mentioned topic (Russian emigrants in the German Army during WW2), has been published recently in The Journal of Slavic Military Studies.

‘Iron Cross of the Wrangel’s Army’: Russian Emigrants as Interpreters in the Wehrmacht
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10. ... 9ZZbbEviW8

This article is based on little-known sources and unpublished documents and traces the fates of some White Army veterans, who during WWII served in the German Army, holding a rank of sonderführer. Some of them were evacuated to Gallipoli from Crimea in November 1920 (gallipoliytsy). The topic of Nazi administration attitude toward the use of Russian emigrants on the front is also touched upon. Special attention is given to the biographies of Russian emigrant interpreters in the 9th Army of the Wehrmacht. It is concluded that the final aims and motivation of Nazis and White émigrés were different. Realization of that contradiction helps the researcher to understand why a part of Russian military emigration had chosen collaboration and joined Hitler’s ‘crusade against Bolshevism’.
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