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    Hiwi ([ˈhiːviː]), the German abbreviation of the word Hilfswilliger or, in English, auxiliary volunteer, designated, during World War II, a member of...
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  • Hiwi refer to: Hiwi (volunteer), POWs of occupied nations who volunteered to help the Nazis Hiwi al-Balkhi, 9th century exegete and critic of Bible Hiwi...
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    to have 4 additional prongs (making it resemble a Jewish menorah). Hiwi (volunteer) Trawniki men From page 76: Berlin hoped to form a Ukrainian National...
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    Wehrmacht forces as Hiwis (or Hilfswillige). The Ukrainian collaborationist forces were composed of an estimated number of 180,000 volunteers serving with units...
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    Ostlegionen (category Foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht)
    during the Allied landings codenamed Operation Dragoon (August 1944). Hiwi (volunteer) German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war Nazi racial...
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    nicknamed Hiwis fought in both the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS. Russian Emigres served in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, a multinational volunteer force of...
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    Ukrainian Liberation Army (category Foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht)
    in reference to a number of companies and local Ostbataillonen of Hiwi volunteers desiring to free their own territories from the Soviet rule. They included...
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    battalions. Some 1,000 Hiwis are known to have run away during field operations.: 366  Although the majority of Trawniki men or Hiwis came from among the...
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    Russian Liberation Army (category Foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht)
    several hundred thousand ex-Soviet volunteers were serving in the German forces, either as Hiwis or in Eastern volunteer units (referred to as Osteinheiten...
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    Police Battalion 101 from Orpo. After the war ended, the last 1,000 Hiwi volunteers forming the SS Battalion Streibel blended in with the civilian population...
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    were “military collaborators” with the Wehrmacht in some way either as Hiwis (or Hilfswillige) or in some other capacity, including 275,000 to 350,000...
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  • Both military and civilian auxiliaries were called Hiwis (German abbreviation for auxiliary volunteer) with the former Soviets soldiers frequently wearing...
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    fallen to only 1,000, making it badly understrength. It was hoped Turkmen hiwis could fill a shortfall in recruits, but these plans were abandoned after...
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  • 1945, large numbers of Russians were liberated, including POWs, Hiwis (volunteers in the Army), and slave laborers (Ostarbeiter). Those in areas under...
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    voluntary organizations). They were placed under the same authority as Hiwis, auxiliary personnel of the army (German: Behelfspersonal) and they were...
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    arms, panzerfausts, machine guns, and hand grenades throughout the war. Hiwis were auxiliary forces recruited from the indigenous populations in the areas...
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  • Bezen Perrot (category Foreign volunteer units of Nazi Germany)
    refusing to join French collaborationist units such as the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism, while sharing their hatred of what they perceived...
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    40,000 and 65,000 Hilfswillige (Hiwi), or "volunteer auxiliaries," recruited from Soviet POWs and civilians. These Hiwi often served in supporting roles...
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    male and 3,050 female auxiliaries, 900 Hungarian and Italian 'volunteers', 3,600 Russian Hiwis, and 3,000 others, thus making up a total of 62,550 persons...
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    Arajs Kommando Selbstschutz Volksdeutscher Trawnikis Order Police battalions Hiwi Security Battalions (Greece) Waffen-SS divisions SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT)...
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    Arajs Kommando Selbstschutz Volksdeutscher Trawnikis Order Police battalions Hiwi Security Battalions (Greece) Waffen-SS divisions SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT)...
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  • training facility where Ukrainian volunteers were trained by the SS and then enrolled as auxiliaries, colloquially known asHiwis. Trawniki became an Operation...
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  • competent older conscripts, later also with prisoners of war and foreign volunteers (Hiwis). The main task was the construction and maintenance of military air...
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  • Łomazy and Parczew and the Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki concentration camps, as well as aiding Hiwi units in the shooting of circa 10,000 of the total....
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    Contingent and in Whitmore's Corps of Guides 1869–70, and was wounded at Manawa-hiwi Urewera Country on 7 May 1869. New Zealand Cross Parham, W. T. "Thomas Adamson"...
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  • Obergruppenführer and SD General Friedrich Jeckeln called for 70–80,000 Hiwis for the Wehrmacht. Chief-of-Staff of the Northern Front Field Marshal Walter...
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  • Whaling Commission and diplomacy. Edward Te Rangihiwinui (Hiwi) Tauroa JP. For public services. Hiwi Tauroa Civil division Professor Patricia Rose Bergquist...
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    general Friedrich Jeckeln called for 70–80,000 men for the Wehrmacht as Hiwis. Chief-of-Staff of Army Group North Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model demanded...
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    2020, a Belgian woman placed flowers on the grave of the first Dutch SS-volunteer Willem Heubel. Among the most notable dead in the cemetery are: Julius...
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  • Army who wanted to absorb and "assimilate" Dabendorf. When many Russian Hiwi's were withdrawn from the Eastern Front and sent to work on fortifications...
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