Who Knew? 10's of thousands of Russians fought with the Nazis in WWII. Pooty are you a Nazi? [View all]

The Russian Liberation Army – Meet the Legion of Soviet POWs Who Joined the Nazis to Fight Stalin

IT WAS JUST after VE Day in May of 1945 when James Hayes, a major in the U.S. Army’s 80th Infantry Division, was enjoying a break outside of his regiment’s command post in Hungary. As the young officer sipped a coffee, prisoners from the defeated German Sixth Army (reformed after the defeat at Stalingrad) were shuffling by with their heads down.

As the column trudged along, a GI approached. The man was escorting what appeared to be a German general staff officer. Hayes waved the sentry over. The Wehrmacht officer in tow saluted sharply and then in rapid-fire German asked to be sent forward saying he had orders for a “General Vlassov” (actually spelled Vlasov).

The stranger described the general as “a renegade Cossack” in the employ of the Third Reich who led an army of Russian deserters against their Soviet countrymen. According to the German officer, he was to order the turncoat Vlasov to “link up with the Americans and immediately attack the Russians in Austria.”

The American listened politely to the wild story but, unmoved, sent the officer standing before him to join his defeated comrades as they marched into captivity. Hayes learned much later that Vlasov, along with many of his lieutenants had been turned over to the Soviets and executed for treason.

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Yes, there were hundreds of thousands of Russians that sympathized with the Nazis. The more I learn, the more the present world makes sense, even if I don't like what I see.


On edit: The first link was wrong. Corrected it.