Vlasovci německým pohledem Anabáze 1. pěší divize Ozbrojených sil KONR na jaře 1945
Vlasov’s Russian Liberation Army from a German perspective: The anabasis of the First Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (VS-KONR) in the spring of 1945

Summary/Abstract: The establishment of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) as a political platform for the anti-Stalinist opposition as of November 1944 and the operations of the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the People’s of Russia (VS-KONR), particularly the First Infantry Division of the VS-KONR (the 600th Infantry (Russian) Division in German terminology) are historically linked with Prague. The testimony of the German liaison commander Helmut Schwenninger is a specific document on this division’s deployment on the Oder front and its subsequent advance into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In a succinct, diary style, he describes the actions and behaviour of the Russian commanders, including Lieutenant General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov and the division commander General Sergei Kuzmich Bunyachenko. In view of the fact that he accompanied the staff of the First Infantry Division in Kozojedy (29 April-3 May 1945) and in Suchomasty (4-8 May 1945), and was with it during its subsequent surrender to units of the Third U.S. Army, he also became a witness to its dealings with the command of the Army Group Centre, especially Field Marshall Ferdinand Schorner, and with representatives of the Czech resistance movement. He also witnessed its tragic end, when a substantial portion of its officers fell into the hands of the Red Army and SMERSH units.

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