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Post by pieter on Aug 1, 2014 7:38:00 GMT -7
Collaboration Russian Cossacks in Wehrmacht and Waffen SSThe first collaborators were formed from Soviet Cossack POWs and deserters after the consequences of the Red Army's early defeats in the course of Operation Barbarossa. After the horrors of Collectivization and Decossackization, in summer of 1942, many of the Germans reaching Kuban were greeted as liberators. Many Soviet Kuban Cossacks chose to switch to the German side either when in POW camps or on active service in the Soviet Army. For example, Major Kononov deserted on August 22, 1941 with an entire regiment and was instrumental in organizing Cossack volunteers in the Wehrmacht.  Major General Ivan Kononov NikitchSome Cossack emigres, such as Andrei Shkuro and Pyotr Krasnov chose to collaborate with the Germans as well and stood at the helm of two Cossack divisions on German service. However, most volunteers came after the Germans reached the Cossack homelands in summer of 1942. The Cossack National Movement of Liberation was set up in hope of mobilizing opposition to the Soviet regime with an intent to rebuild an independent Cossack state.  Commanding officer Major Ivan Denisovich Frolov (center) with the officers of Russian National Liberation Army (RONA) during the Warsaw Uprising  Russian-Cossack volunteer in a German army uniformWhile there were several smaller Cossack detachments in the Wehrmacht since 1941, the 1st Cossack Division made up of Don, Terek and Kuban Cossacks was formed in 1943. This division was further augmented by the 2nd Cossack Cavalry Division formed in December 1944. Both divisions participated in hostilities against Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. In February 1945[/b], both Cossack Divisions were transferred into the Waffen-SS and formed the XVth SS Cossack Cavalry Corps. At the end of the war, the Cossack collaborators retreated to Italy and surrendered to the British army, but, under the Yalta agreement, were forcibly repatriated with the rest of the collaborators to the Soviet authorities and some executed. (see Betrayal of the Cossacks)
P.S.- In the present civil war in Eastern-Ukraine Cossacks are again present, this time at the side of the Pro-Russian rebels. You could say they are the descendants of the Pro-Sovjet Cossacks during the Second World War.
Meet the Cossack Wolves' Hundred, a Russian paramilitary force in Eastern Ukraine. On May 12, 2014
The same Pro-Russian rebel Cossack somewhere in Eastern-Ukraine
But there are also Pro-Ukrainian Cossacks
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Post by Jaga on Aug 1, 2014 9:54:10 GMT -7
History of Cossacks in Wehrmacht was always of interest to me, thanks for posting.
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Post by pieter on Aug 1, 2014 10:13:22 GMT -7
You're welcome Jaga. The Cossack theme just came to the surface when the Crimea and Eastern-Ukraine crisis emerged. Suddenly they appeared and didn't seem to go away. I was learnt that Cossacks always have been a sort of mercenary people, and that Cossack troops were used by the Russian Czar, the Ukrainians and even the Poles and Lithuanians if it suited them.
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Post by pieter on Aug 1, 2014 11:44:08 GMT -7
Once a year on august 1st, the people of Warsaw pay hommage to the fallen heroes that fought for freedom in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. The biggest rebellion against German Nazi occupation during WWII cost over 200 000 lives and destruction of the capital.
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Post by pieter on Aug 2, 2014 8:27:44 GMT -7
Foreign soldiers serving in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS Two Russian askaris peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Picture from Stroop Report.
Original caption: "Askaris used during the operation."During WWII, the Germans used the term " askaris" for Red Army, largely Russian, deserters who formed units fighting against the Red Army and in other action on the Eastern front. Soviet archives apply the term to Latvians, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians—who all fought against the Red Army, not Russians. This term was also applied to the Western Ukrainian volunteer units like the Nightingale Battalion, Schuma battalions, and the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, which was used in many operations during WWII. Most of them were either Red Army deserters or anti-communist peasants recruited from Western Ukrainian rural areas under German occupation.  Askaris in the Warsaw Gettho. Askaris were volunteers in the volunteerunits (Hilfseinheiten) of the SS ... It were especially Latvians, Lithuanians, Whiterussians and Ukrainains. Not excactly first class soldiers, but Nationalists and Antisemites. Estonian Askaris assigned to the operation" at the Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto Uprising MeaningAn askari was a local soldier serving in the armies of the European colonial powers in Africa, particularly in East Africa, Northeast Africa, and Central Africa. Not only was the word used in that sense in English, but also in French, German, Italian, Urdu and Portuguese. The designation is still in use today to describe police, gendarmerie and security guards. During the period of the European colonial empires in Africa, locally recruited soldiers were employed by Italian, British, Portuguese, German and Belgian colonial armies. They played a crucial role in the conquest of the various colonial possessions, and subsequently served as garrison and internal security forces. During both World Wars askari units served outside their colonies of origin, in various parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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Post by pieter on Aug 2, 2014 15:25:29 GMT -7
Guys who attack funny ladies? Guys who can't stand opposition!
I know the Cossacks from the Polish, Ukrainian and Russian history. The first time I heard of them and saw images of them in reference to the Second World. They fascinated me as strange, sinister guys in long black clothes and black fury hats, who attacked German nazi troops on their horses with their long swords. They must have scared the Germans like hell, when they suddenly appeared like black ghosts out of the white Russian landscape.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by pieter on Aug 2, 2014 15:42:29 GMT -7
I hope that we can avoid terrible, sad and sickening circumstances like shown in the video under this message in present day Europe, and that we can work hard, struggle and fight to keep our democratic system, freedom and Western, European values in the European Union.
Due to the ongoing polarization both anti-semitism and islamophobia are growing. I hope that pogroms, lynchings, genocide and political murders will be a phenomenon of the past. Large Islamist terror attacks can spark a chain of hatred, revenge and reprisals in Europe. You have a large group of unsatisfied unemployed Europeans and people who are fed up by the traditional, old fashionate, reasonable, moderate (centrist), tolerant and respectful political parties and politicians, prime ministers and ministers, kings, queens and presidents. European thugs like the thugs in the video, will find an excuse (reason) in a large terror attack with a lot of dead or the assasination of a popular Western personality, to attack Muslim community centers, Muslim primary schools, Muslim highschools, Muslim migrant neighborhoods, shops and other property of Muslim migrants and mosques. The Muslim migrants will react and retalliate with violent riots, attacks on police stations and government buildings. The jewish minorities in the European countries are vulnerable and suffer under the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because after every large Israeli ground operation against the occupied territories, they are a target for vandalism, hate crimes, verbal attacks and other anti-semitic incidents. So both Jews and Muslim migrants suffer under the conflict in Israel/Palestine. A positive phenomenon is that the Muslim and jewish minorities in Europe increasingly understand eachothers problems and often started to cooperate, for instance in intiatives for dialogue between the communities, cultural exchange and even joined peace initiatives.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by karl on Aug 3, 2014 10:05:36 GMT -7
I hope that we can avoid terrible, sad and sickening circumstances like shown in the video under this message in present day Europe, and that we can work hard, struggle and fight to keep our democratic system, freedom and Western, European values in the European Union. Due to the ongoing polarization both anti-semitism and islamophobia are growing. I hope that pogroms, lynchings, genocide and political murders will be a phenomenon of the past. Large Islamist terror attacks can spark a chain of hatred, revenge and reprisals in Europe. You have a large group of unsatisfied unemployed Europeans and people who are fed up by the traditional, old fashionate, reasonable, moderate (centrist), tolerant and respectful political parties and politicians, prime ministers and ministers, kings, queens and presidents. European thugs like the thugs in the video, will find an excuse (reason) in a large terror attack with a lot of dead or the assasination of a popular Western personality, to attack Muslim community centers, Muslim primary schools, Muslim highschools, Muslim migrant neighborhoods, shops and other property of Muslim migrants and mosques. The Muslim migrants will react and retalliate with violent riots, attacks on police stations and government buildings. The jewish minorities in the European countries are vulnerable and suffer under the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because after every large Israeli ground operation against the occupied territories, they are a target for vandalism, hate crimes, verbal attacks and other anti-semitic incidents. So both Jews and Muslim migrants suffer under the conflict in Israel/Palestine. A positive phenomenon is that the Muslim and jewish minorities in Europe increasingly understand eachothers problems and often started to cooperate, for instance in intiatives for dialogue between the communities, cultural exchange and even joined peace initiatives. Cheers, Pieter Pieter Your presentation has brought to surface what many would call as offensive, but then, those many do not understand what actions could/would occure to those out side the sympathies of the many. In such situations as an associated incident of war, the many are responsible people,, until the few take the opportunity to commit to others that would others wise be not permissible by the protectective laws of that state of occurance. It is of course observed in the video of the victims of crimes committed against them. With this though, it should of note of lack of assistance by those by standing to these victims. These ladies have just suffered a most humiliating assault against them in full view of the public in a public area, they are in shock, fully humiliated, and have not the offer from others in full view to place a coat or article of clothing to these women to cover them selves by. Only is one lady to offer assistance to a victim as depected in the lead photo. A situation that is most notable of crowd indifference whilst viewing the situation as a spectical. A clear and present situation of breakdown of social conscience and moral responsibility. Kar |
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Post by pieter on Aug 3, 2014 10:38:28 GMT -7
Examples of the rising anti-semitism in Europe
I believe that criticism of Zionism by non-jews must be possible and that criticism of Zionism by concious and ethical jews isn't anti-semitism, as long as these people do not deny the Holocaust (Shoa) or say that the present Israeli jewish population and Diaspora in the rest of the world should be killed. But I do believe that there is a 'wrong' kind of anti-semitism, which abuses anti-zionism to serve an anti-semitic goal. Often these people don't give a darn about Muslim migrants, the Palestinian suffering and cause, and the suffering of Palestinians in the civil war in Syria, their oppression in Iraq by Shia Arab Muslims, and their marginal position in Lebanon, Egypt and Saoudi Arabia. I believe that anti-semitism and anti-arab Islamophobia will merge or are already merged in a general kind of xenophobia, racism and discrimination and hatred for European jews, Israeli's, Palestinians, Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian Berbers and Arabs, Palestinian refugees, North-African Arabs (who are here in Europe next to their Berber brethren), Syrian, Iraqi, Bosnian Muslim refugees and Turkish and Kurd migrants.
The bad thing of the present day fierce anti-semitism in Western-Europe (I say Western-Europe, because there is more anti-semitism today in Western-European countries like the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany, than in Central- and Eastern-European countries like Poland, the Czech republic, Slovakia, the Baltic states, Bulgaria and Rumania. Maybe Hungary is an exception with the far right, neo-facist Jobik movement.) is the fact that it makes no distinction between Israel and Israeli politics and measures and the pluriform European Diaspora. Anti-Zionist anti-semitism is directed to jews who have nothing in common with Israel and often don't feel connected with Israel or have no links with Israel. It is a fact that in Europe an increasing amount of anti-semitic incidents (both verbal and physical) is caused by Muslims, Muslim immigrants who feel connected to Palestine, and are influenced by anti-semitic and anti-zionist Arab and Muslim foreign channels they receive via their satellite dish, and via Islamist, or Radical (extremist) far right and far left Pan-Arab, Arab socialist and Arab Nationalist websites and blogs.
Like the European extreme-right, far left terrorism, anti-semitic Hooliganism, Nazi-skinheads, these Muslim migrant extremists form a danger to our societies due to their fierce anti-semitic hatred and rejection of the Western-European parliamentarian democracy, the separation of powers ( the trias politica principle ), freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of gathering, freedom of opinion, freedom of religion, equality of the law, equality between the genders, and belief in progress, innovation, the right to disagree with each other and respect the opinion of 'the other'. I find it worrysome that today jews don't feel themselves free and safe enough to be who they are and express their religion in my country, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Belgium, France and Great-Britain. I don't see the same intolerance of European jewish communities and religious groups against Muslim migrants and other non-jews. Thank god moderate, secular, liberal and conservative Muslims in the Netherlands and other countries speak against extremism, intolerance, anti-semitism, Islamism (Salafist Jihadism) and anti-Western attitudes within their own communities. Muslim leaders, Muslim parents, Muslim politicians -who are part of social-democratic, liberal and christian-democratic/conservative parties- speak out against radicalization, anti-semitism and criminality of youth out of their own communities.
But is it stays a fact that synagogues, Jewish schools, jewish institutions and especially jewish individuals are targets of hate crimes in European cities and towns. It is a problem that jews can't be jews in Europe, that they have to hide their identity. In the same time it is worrisome that Muslims also are the target of hate crimes. That Muslim women with head gears, veil's, niqab's or Burqa's are attacked, spit at, drawn and pulled to remove their religious clothes, swore at and even beaten. They get hateful looks, people look with disgust at them and make derogatory remarks or mock them and see them as primitive, backward and oppressed women and girls, or women and girls who force their way of life on, liberal and secular Muslims migrant girls who do not ware headgears or modest Muslim dresses, and especially, Western, non-Mulsim women. I have no problem with headgear wearing Muslim women and girls. I had colleagues who wore them. They weren't less integrated in the sense, that they spoke perfectly Dutch and did their job properly. Other migrant women and girls without a Muslim dress often spoke less good Dutch than them. But these visible Muslim women and girls, because they were recognizable as Muslims received direct and indirect rejection, judgements or received a distant approach of colleagues and Dutch compatriots (I say compatriots, because they are Dutch citizens with a Dutch passport). The xenophobia, discrimination and 'racism' against Muslim migrants has roots of a few decades, and roots in old views which are rooted in what the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said would call 'Orientalism'. From the Muslim Moors, who conquered the Iberian Peninisula in the Middle ages and brought their Muslim civilization to Southern-Europe to the Ottoman Turkish empire (Muslim European Bosnia Herzegovina, the Sandžak region in Southern-Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, and the ethnic Muslim minorities in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Griece (480,824 Albanian citizens [4,44% of the Greek population]) and the fear and rejectionist attitudes towards the new Muslim migrants (the Turkish, Kurd and Moroccan guest workers) that came to Western-European countries during the sixties, seventies and eighties to work in the traditional industries, did cleaning work or other low paid jobs. Back then the European politicians, employers and labour unions weren't interested in their integration. Native European people thought these people would go back to their own countries after a few years. The Muslim immigrants stayed and imported their families. And today a few generations (3 generations) live in Western-Europe. Due to the lack of integration, most of them still have their Moroccan and Turkish ethnic and national identities and their Sunni Muslim religion and identity.
That urges them and makes (and made) them to identify with the suffering of all Sunni Muslim people in the world, wherever they are persecuted, occupied, attacked, harassed, humiliated, killed or wounded. So these Muslim migrants felt connected to the Bosnian muslims during the (civil-) wars in Lebanon (1975 - 1990), the Nagorno-Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia ( a war between Muslim Azerbaijani and Christian Armenians), the Kashmir conflict in Northern-India (22 October 1947 – ongoing), former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo), Chechenia, Palestine, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Tunesia, the Arab Spring ( 18 December 2010 – present), the 2013 Burma anti-Muslim riots, and the military coup and oppression of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the Egyptian revolution of 2011.
Ofcourse the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict gets the most attention of the Muslim migrant youth and Muslim migrants in general. (also Muslim migrant adults, parents, fathers, mothers, uncles and aunts to to demonstrations. Often Migrant working class, but also Migrant middle class people) But Palestine is linked with the situation of the Palestinians all over the Arab world, and the conflicts and wars in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That mix and the feeling and ideas that the Western-powers are involved in these conflicts in the Muslim world on the wrong side of the authorities and oppressive rulers who oppress their Muslim populations, makes these muslim migrant peoples so tense, irritatted, frustrated, angry, sad and partly anti-Western. (anti-USA, anti-Great-Britian, anti-Israel, anti-Europe and anti-Egypt and anti-Arab regimes in the Arab countries)
That is dangerous, because not only militant, anti-Israeli and anti-Western 'resistance' and 'terrorist' movements like Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah gained support in Europe, but also the more extreme Salafist Jihadist Islamist groups and movements like Al Qaida, ISIS and the Al Nusra front gain support. Every Western-European nation has dozens or hundreds of Muslim migrant youth and converted native European youth who went to Syria and Iraq to fight as Jihadist fighters. These young guys were and are involved in war crimes, and many of them were killed and wounded in combat. Those who return to the Western-European countries pose a threat to the security, safety, stability and peace in the countries they return too. Because they are often integrated Muslims, they can spread the message of Jihad (armed struggle) and Sharia law, not only in Turkish, Moroccan Berber, Arabic and Kurd, but also in Dutch/Flemish, French, German and English and in Scandinavian languages. These people are a real threat to the Western-European countries. They spread a vicious anti-semitism, anti-Western, anti-democratic and thus anti-Dutch, anti-Belgian, anti-German, anti-Danish, anti-Swedish, anti-Norwegian, anti-French and anti-American and anti-British message. What the West doesnl't realize is that these people in their ideology see America as the BIG SATAN and Israel as the LITTLE SATAN. They see Israel as a puppet state of the USA and Great-Britain, crusader states and empires in their medieval Islamist (Salafist and/or Wahhabite) point of view. Palestinians today even see Egypt and the USA as a greater enemy than Israel. Because in their view, Egyptians and Americans speak like Israeli leaders.
(These young boys come from Arnhem)
I fear that if the situation deteriorates, the Jews of Western-Europe will leave Europe, and emigrate to Israel, the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. There is even a possibility that some Western-European jews will move to Central-European countries like Poland and Germany. For the first time in a century the anti-semitism in Europe is larger outside Germany and Russia. Western-European countries suffer from a growing anti-semitism due to the presence of Muslim anti-semitism, far right anti-semitism and leftwing anti-semitism. It is sad and stupid that the majority of the Muslim migrants don't understand that the fierce anti-semitism in Europe has an ugly mirror. The mirror of xenophobia, racism and anti-Muslim migrant discrimination, ethnic labeling and in fact a new kind of second anti-semitism; anti-Arabism (Arabs are Semitic people)
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Aug 3, 2014 10:45:55 GMT -7
A horrible time to live.
My aunt, Jennie, on my mothers side, a blonde haired blue eyed catholic beauty, was interred in Auschwitz and released at the end of the war. Since she immigrated back to the USA she never spoke of that time up till her passing.
How many horrors were on the lives of the unlucky human beings.
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Post by pieter on Aug 3, 2014 11:54:30 GMT -7
French jews defend their quarter in Paris against a violent Pro-Palestinian French Muslim migrant mob. You see that the French jews, armed with wooden chairs, baseball bats and their numbers (it is a group of jewish men and boys) try to stop the advance of the Muslim mob who is marching to their synagogue. Later you see that the French riots police can't handle the situation. And that's why the french jews had to act. Therefor they look like a bunch of Hooligans and rioters. What you don't see is that they were attacked and brought into a defensive situation first.
France has a large Jewish population and a departments of the Jewish Defense Leage and Betar. Militant jewish groups who will defend jewish property, people and targets.
Thousands of protestors destroy the streets of Paris, while shouting anti-semitic slogans (Death to Jews / Morts aux Juifs) and attacking Jewish owned shops while also attacking anything and anyone they can get their hands on.
P.S.- This has nothing to do with Palestine, this has to do with vandalism, violence, hatred, anti-French and anti-jewish sentiments, under the disguise of anti-zionism.
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