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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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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…
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Lithuanian Activist Front
One lesser-known fight, which the Americans studied was the June Uprising. This was an uprising which occurred when the Germans attacked Soviet occupied Lithuania, and Lithuanian nationalist rose up to help the Germans. It occurred after the Soviet Union invaded Lithuania, many Lithuanians were humiliated and mistreated by the new occupiers. They did many mean…
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Problems in Poland
After World War One, Germany was forced to give up much of its territory. Along with this was the creation of a new political state known as Poland, which gained much of Germany’s old territory. Along with its new territory, Poland also acquired multiple pockets of ethnic German populations. The Pols were not kind to…
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Peace Deals
While the whole world was looking to start a war and finish Germany, Germany was doing to exact opposite, trying to look for ways to form peace instead. Germany was trying to rebuild her military back even before Hitler got elected to power, it was in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Many of the…
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Bunds Camp
Just like all other groups of immigrants in America, the Americans Germans liked to stay together in their own community. In 1937 enough German immigrants were able to pull their money together and buy themselves their own recreation area in Andover New Jersey. The Germans built a meeting hall, and that same year Camp Nordland…
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The Haavara Agreement
Imagine that you have a bad roommate that you want to move, so you agree to help him move to another area which he got for a steel. In doing so you hope he moves out easily, but he ends up just telling lies so other people attack, while he lives for free somewhere else.…
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Jews Declare War on Germany
After Hitler came to power, he followed through on many promises that he made. Most of these promises involved going after Jews and communist in Germany. Since after World War One, Germany fell victim to reprisal by the allies. Not only that but there was a large amount of degeneracy flowing through Germany at the…
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The First Eastern European Nazi
Alfred Rosenberg was an Estonian German, who spent time going to school in Russia. However, in February 1918 Estonia was became occupied by Germany after the Red Army was sent into retreat. During this time on the 24th of February the Estonian had a Declaration of Independence. Surprisingly the Imperial Germans were respectful of this…