defector, Red Army general Andrey Vlasov, and other volunteers from the Soviet Union as "General of the Eastern Troops" (General der Osttruppen), a position...

Armee-gebiet 580 3666/43, 30.9.43, RH20-2/558 „Zuverlässigkeit der Ostverbänden“, “ Komm. Der Osttruppen z.b.v. 720 beim Aok 2 1042/43, 7.10.43 RH20-8/979 >„Zuverlässigkeit...

1944 Strik-Strikfeldt was interviewed by General Köstring when the latter was appointed head of the Osttruppen formations. Köstring confirmed that the...

August 1944. Recruits were to come from criminals, Eastern volunteers (Osttruppen), and military delinquents. On 19 February 1944, permission to take volunteers...

(1997). Eastern Troops in Zeeland, The Netherlands, 1943–1945: Hitler's Osttruppen in the West. New York: Academic Publishing Group. ISBN 1891227009. James...

Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2021. "Osttruppen units in the Wehrmacht". Axis History. 29 March 2013. Archived from the...

nearly 800 men of the Georgian Legion, serving in the German army as Osttruppen, rebelled on 5 April 1945. Their rebellion was crushed by the German army...

which time two of its Jäger battalions were made up of USSR-recruited Osttruppen. The division fought rearguard actions during the withdrawal through Hungary...

overage, ill-equipped and led by inadequate officers and NCOs. Some were Osttruppen units composed of non-German volunteers from the Soviet Union. These were...

successful. On Delta and Alpha beaches, German resistance was low. The Osttruppen surrendered quickly, and the biggest threats to the Allies were the mines...