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Stephan Bandera and OUN
OUN or Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was a paramilitary which was first organized in 1920 to help fight for Ukrainian independence. They originally formed in Prague, after the Soviets took over Ukraine after World War 1. Before World War Two OUN was a terrorist organization which mainly focused on attacking Polish Officials, who were deemed…
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Kedia and his Network
Michael Kedia was an organizer for many of the Caucus partisan groups, which would later work with the Germans in order to defeat the Soviets. Throughout his life Kedia would refer to himself as a Georgian, even though his background was much more complex than that. His family was ethnically Armenian. Born in the Sudetenland…
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The Fifth Columnist
Alfred Rosenberg wouldn’t be doing any more work with eastern Europeans until after the Beer Hall Putsch end the Aufbau Vereinigung, until operation Barbarossa was initiated. He had already proven himself as a competent organizer, and now he had a new job, to handle logistics, and other forms of networking in the newly conquered region,…
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Operation Zepplin
Operation Barbarossa commenced in June 1941, where the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Many Russians who felt betrayed and mistreated by the Soviet, didn’t want to fight for the communist. This led to many disenfranchised Russian to surrender. Over the course of a year this amounted to many prisoners of war falling into the German’s…