‘Iron Cross of the Wrangel’s Army’

What is it about?

This article is based on little-known sources and unpublished documents and traces the fates of some White Army veterans, who during WWII served in the German Army, holding a rank of sonderführer. It is concluded that the final aims and motivation of Nazis and White émigrés were different. Realization of that contradiction helps the researcher to understand why a part of Russian military emigration had chosen collaboration and joined Hitler’s ‘crusade against Bolshevism’.

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Why is it important?

The topic of White Russian emigrants was only barely touched in the Western science: there's one good book, but no books are available on the history of the Russian emigrants during WW2. This article enlightens Western reader that the compicated topic of collaboration with the Axis countries had one more dimension, which had its roots in Russian Civil War.