A Failed Diversionary Landing, or how Abwehrtrained Belarusians Became Soldiers of the Vilnius-Novhrad Home Army Cover Image

Chybiony desant dywersantów, czyli jak przeszkoleni przez Abwehrę Białorusini zostali żołnierzami wileńsko-nowogródzkiej Armii Krajowej
A Failed Diversionary Landing, or how Abwehrtrained Belarusians Became Soldiers of the Vilnius-Novhrad Home Army

Author(s): Paweł Rokicki
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Military history
Published by: Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne im. gen. broni Kazimierza Sosnkowskiego
Keywords: German Third Reich;Abwehr;Home Army;Battalion „Dallwitz”;Belarusians;„Komar”;Vilnius;Michał Wituszko

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the incorporation of a group of Belarusians, that were initially trained and parachuted into the rear of the Red Army by the German Abwehr, into the Home Army partisan unit „Komar” in the Vilnius Region. As a result of a coincidence, these paratroopers ended up fighting with Polish partisans against the Soviet occupiers from November 1944 to June 1945. The text addresses the subject of the German Third Reich’s support for anti-Soviet, national resistance movements in Central and Eastern Europe during the final period of World War II.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2024
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 108-135
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Polish
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