Russian Waffen-SS: the Kaminski Brigade (SS RONA)

This video is about Russian collaboration in World War II and focuses on the SS RONA, also known as the Kaminsky Brigade led by Bronislav Kaminsky. This unit's full name was the Waffen-Sturm-Brigade der SS RONA and later it became known as the 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS RONA (1st Russian). They ruled over the so-called Lokot Autonomy (or Lokot Autonomous Region) which was under control by Konstantin Voskoboynik and after his death Kaminsky rose to power. They unleashed a reign of terror in the Lokot and later helped the Germans with crushing the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Eventually the unit was merged into the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) under collaborating general Andrey Vlasov. He would later establish the Russian People's Liberation Committee (KONR).

History Hustle presents: Russian Waffen-SS: the SS RONA (Kaminski Brigade).

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– The Unknown Eastern Front. The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers (Rolf-Dieter Müller).

– Hitler's Russian & Cossack Allies 1941-45 [Men-at-arms] (Nigel Thomas).

– Joining Hitler's Crusade. European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941 (David Stahel) The Soviet Union (Oleg Beyda and Igor Petrov).

– Russia's War (Richard Overy).

– Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (Norman Davies).

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Ostfront 1942 - Heavy Combat Footage

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