Battle of the Bulge, EUROPA WOCHE Nr. 100 Jan. 23, 1945 GERMAN NEWSREEL

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EUROPA WOCHE Nr. 100
January 28, 1945

0:56 - Swearing-in of Volkssturm units in Prague
2:39 - War disabled soldiers learning to ski
3:19 - Women in the aircraft industry
4:10 - Processing of sugar beets
4:50 - Training of Norwegian workers
5:55 - Ceremonial handover of newly built residential buildings in Spain
7:12 - Russian Orthodox church service
7:44 - Russian volunteers from different regions with Goebbels in Berlin
9:06 - Combat operations in the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge)

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The Russian Liberation Army was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II. The army was led by Andrey Vlasov, a Red Army general who had defected, and members of the army are often referred to as Vlasovtsy. In 1944, it became known as the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.

Vlasov agreed to collaborate with Nazi Germany after having been captured on the Eastern Front. The soldiers under his command were mostly former Soviet prisoners of war but also included White Russian émigrés, some of whom were veterans of the anti-communist White Army from the Russian Civil War (1917–23). On 14 November 1944, it was officially renamed the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, with the KONR being formed as a political body to which the army pledged loyalty. On 28 January 1945, it was officially declared that the Russian divisions no longer form part of the German Army, but would directly be under the command of KONR.

During the march south in May of 1945, the first division of the ROA came to the help of the Czech partisans in the Prague uprising against the German occupation, which started on May 5. Vlasov was initially reluctant to agree to that move, but ultimately did not resist General Bunyachenko's