General Vlassov anti-Stalinist Axis partner (Nov 1944)

German Wartime Newsreel. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr.742 (23 November 1944).

General Vlasov: in Prague Castle, he speaks to first meeting of Committee for the Liberation of Russian Nations (State Minister Frank also speaks); in Berlin, he speaks to eastern workers.

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[CrispinRobles]

There's no doubt that Vlassov was a hero and a martyr. He was handed over to the Bolsheviks by the allies, and the commies killed him.

[14Sebastian88]

The god old times German and Russian patriots united against the true enemy of Europe Jewish-Bolshevism. NS Victory-Europe's Freedom

[chickenwretch]

700,000 Russians fought along with the Germans not because they were Nazis, but because they saw in Stalin the betrayal of the Russian people. Vlasov, greatest hero and patriot of the war.

[notaire2]

Sehr seltener Bericht von General Vlassov. Danke fürs Hochladen!

[IanHunedoara8]

@IustitiaPax What Polish?? I'm a Greek of ethnic Vlakh descent and student of WW2 history

[IustitiaPax]

Armija Krajowa was indeed weakened and almost destroyed. But Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (NSZ-AK) retreated into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in January 1945, with Nazi permission. I agree, that "Generalne Gubernatorstwo na okupowanych ziemiach polskich" was indeed more or less a colony. But many Polish collaborators, and Polish blue police. You Poles always forget or deny the complex sides. And the Soviet KGB invented "Generalplan Ost" propaganda lie.

[IustitiaPax]

Von Stauffenberg's attempt would have meant nothing, as England, USA and Free French wanted the destruction of Germany, not just of Nazi dictatorship. It was a socio-economic war against German autarky and German independence in Europe, threatening Anglo-American hegemony and French domination of West Europe.

[IustitiaPax]

General von Stauffenberg saw mostly atrocities. In the senseless war at the Eastern front. He also witnessed all Soviet atrocities in 1941, when he still favoured the preventive strike against USSR. By 1944, however, he came to realize, that many noblemen were imprisoned by Gestapo in Germany, and of the totalitarian regime the Nazi leadership had established. In 1939-42, there was in Nazi Germany more freedom of speech and freedom of press, than in Germany or UK today (political correctness).

[IanHunedoara8]

@IustitiaPax Armija Krajowa was virtually annihilated by SS and Ukrainian Fascists at Warsaw by Dec 1944 and did not play a role in the fighting afterwards. Armija Ludowo fought in Pommern (Pomorze) There was never a "Protektorat" over Poland, unlike Czechia and Moravska. Direct Nazi control under "GeneralGouvernmemt" was an SS colony under Hans Frank.

[IanHunedoara8]

@IustitiaPax Yes, the same "lies" that turned Von Staufenberg against Hitler after witnessing atrocities at the Eastern Front???

[IustitiaPax]

The ROA in the Karawanken and in the Czech Protectorate wanted to justify themselves, in the face of coming Soviet reprisals, to gain Allied status with western Allies, like the ZB Armia Krajowa forces of Polish resistance (who in Febr 1945 had allied with Nazis and receded into Protektorát). You also forget the millions of Ukrainian SS volunteers and volunteer workers from Galicia. You only believe Soviet, Anglo-American "anti-Fascist" propaganda. That is: you believe lies.

[IustitiaPax]

Nonsense. These are Soviet statistics. About 800,000 Soviet POWs died, especially in 1941, because the offensive forces of the Red Army at the border with Germany-Romania-Hungary were formed from millions, and the German Army never thought to make so many POWs. Many Slavs volunteered to work in the Reich: Slovakians, Bulgarians, Croats, even many Poles did so. You just do not want to believe this.