Adolf to Azov

Allied intelligences had suggested the German Nazis had built an extensive network of back collaborators across Europe. What they didn’t realize was how loyal they were to the Nazi cause.

It wouldn’t be until days after the D-day landing that the allies learned how deep this alliance was. Many of the prisoners captured in those early days were from different places, and with different backgrounds. While some of these foreigners were defending the beaches where prisoners, not all of the foreigners fighting on the sides were. As the allies kept fighting and cross through Italy and France, they managed to capture Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Russians, Baits, Cossacks, Ukrainians, and dozens of other nationalities and ethnic groups, who were fighting along Germans as Nazis. Allied intelligence noticed that many of these foreigners fighting along the side had a very deep devotion for the Nazi cause. This wasn’t just some political or financial appreciation, but something similar to a religious devotion. Not only were there devoted Nazis, but they were also anti-communist as well. While many of the captured had to admit and change their stance from pro-Nazi to anti-Nazi, many of the prisoners held on to their anti-communist beliefs.

As Germany was losing the war, and the threat of a war with Russia started to grow, the allied spent time pondering how they might be able to muster the same type of foreign movements could be activated in Europe to fight against the Soviets. It would take a tremendous amount of time and effort for the allies to sort out how this whole network was organized. The Americans decided to send spies into Nazi Germany to discover how these foreign Nazi movements operated and recruits.