Sunday, August 27, 2023

Heinz Reinefarth and the Cossacks


Wearing a Cossack fur hat called kubanka, SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei Heinz Reinefarth (second from left, Kommandeur Kampfgruppe Reinefarth) having a discussion with members of Kosaken-Regiment 3 on Wola street during the Warsaw Uprising. The 3rd Cossack Regiment - led by Oberst Jakub Bondarenko (second from right) - composed of both Don and Kuban Cossacks. Cossack units constituted the largest ethnic group among foreigners fighting against the Polish insurgents. The SS officer in the center might be SS-Hauptsturmführer Alfred Spilker, the head of a special SD task force that carried out a large number of murders in the Wola area between 5 and 8 August 1944.

Source :
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-genera-heinz-reinefarth-w-czapce-kubance-i-3-puk-kozakw-171470629.html?imageid=C3B0BB6E-F5E6-4D16-BC8F-207EEBF25FCB&p=575952&pn=1&searchId=2366725a65359a6694aa88eaf47b3166&searchtype=0
http://alifrafikkhan.blogspot.com/2016/07/foto-pemberontakan-warsawa-warsaw.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genera%C5%82_Heinz_Reinefarth_w_czapce_kubance_i_3_pu%C5%82k_Kozak%C3%B3w.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/groups/691098008051629/posts/1619517001876387/
https://stabswache-de-euros.blogspot.com/2011/05/tragedy-of-faithful-wiking.html

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