Foreign Officers and Men Serving in the Wehrmacht / Ausländische Offiziere und Männer in der Wehrmacht

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Agustín Muñoz Grandes

Agustín Muñoz Grandes, 27 January 1896 – 11 July 1970, was a Spanish general, and politician, vice-president of the Spanish Government and minister with Francisco Franco several times; also known as the commander of the Blue Division between 1941 and 1943.

Agustín Muñoz Grandes

General Agustin Muñoz Grandez, first head of the Blue Division decorated with the Knights Cross with oak leaves.

Agustín Muñoz Grandes, commander of Spanish volunteers for German Wehrmacht.

From left to right: Lieutenant General Agustín Muñoz Grandes (Commander 250. th Infantry Division), General Friedrich Fromm (head of army armor and commander of the fromm), Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler (Nazi gauleiter of the Phil? Friedrich Von Cochenhausen (commanding general of the Deputy XIII). He was a member of the armeekorps corps in nuremberg. The Picture was in the summer of 1941.

12 March 1942: Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Generalleutnant Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Commander of 250. Infanterie-Division. The officer awarding the medal behind is General der Kavallerie Georg Lindemann.

Andrey Vlasov

Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov or Wlassow (Russian: Андрéй Андрéевич Влáсов) 14 September 1901 – 1 August 1, 1946, was a Russian Red Army general. During World War II, he fought in the Battle of Moscow and later was captured attempting to lift the siege of Leningrad. After being captured, he defected to Nazi Germany and headed the so-called Russian Liberation Army (Russkaya osvoboditel’naya armiya (ROA)). At the war’s end, he changed sides again and ordered the ROA to aid the Prague uprising against the Germans. He and the ROA then tried to escape to the western front but were captured by Soviet forces. Vlasov was tried for treason and hanged.

Lieutenant General A. A. Vlasov.

Vlasov talking to volunteers on November 18, 1944.

Vlasov speaking to Russian ROA volunteers near Dabendorf, Autumn 1944.

General Vlasov and soldiers of the ROA.

Vlasov and General Georgi Zhilenkov (center) meeting Joseph Goebbels, February 1945.

Vlasov and Himmler.

Vlasov’s order no. 65 to prevent dedovshchina in Russian Liberation Army on April 3, 1945.

Vlasov memorial in Nanuet, New York.

Mass grave of two generals and 187 unknown ROA soldiers, Olšanské hřbitovy cemetery in Prague.

Badge.

Flag of the KONR.

Chiang Wei-kuo

Chiang Wei-kuo, 6 October 1916 – 22 September 1997, or in a different order and spelling Wego Chiang was an adopted son of the nationalist Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek and adoptive brother of later President Chiang Ching-kuo. His biological father was Dai Jitao.

His military training received Chiang Wei-kuo in Germany in the 1930s. He graduated from the Military Academy in Munich and was then the mountain rangers in the mountain infantry regiment 98 of the first Mountain Division trained. During the Anschluss of Austria, he was a tank commander and almost at the Polish campaign participated if he had not just been recalled back to China. There he made a rapid career and rose to major general. During the Japanese-Chinese war and the Chinese Civil War, he was the commander of an armored division. After the end of the Civil War, he held several high positions in the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Chiang Wei-kuo

Chiang Wei-kuo on the left.

Other Individuals:

Oberleutnant Emilio Barañano
Julio Salvador Díaz-Benjumea
José Escobedo
Oberleutnant Federico Garret-Rueda
Oberleutnant Ramón Escudé Gilbert
Yang Kyoungjong
Hauptmann Bengoechea Menchaca
Tobias Rimpf
General Shilenkov – Russian

7 July 1942: Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse award ceremony for the celebrated members of 15.(Spanische)Staffel, awarded by General der Flieger Robert Ritter von Greim (Oberbefehl über das Luftwaffenkommando Ost). The recipients, from left to right: Oberleutnant Federico Garret-Rueda, Hauptmann Bengoechea Menchaca, and Oberleutnant Emilio Barañano (Baraño).

2 July 1942: General der Flieger Robert Ritter von Greim (Oberbefehl über das Luftwaffenkommando Ost) greeted by Major Julio Salvador Díaz-Benjumea (Staffelkapitän 15.[Spanische]Staffel / Jagdgeschwader 51) in his visit to the 15.(Spanische)Staffel base at Orel, Soviet Union. Behind Greim standing Hauptmann Hartmann Grasser (Gruppenkommandeur II.Gruppe / Jagdgeschwader 51 “Mölders”).

Second lieutenant José Escobedo severely wounded and decorated with an Iron Cross First Class for his bravery escaping a Russian POW camp.

Oberleutnant Ramón Escudé Gilbert, pilot of 2ª Blue Squadron in the Front of Russia. It takes on the left pocket of the single-breasted uniform jacket the symbol of pilots Spanish and German and the arm shield that it identifies to him like Spanish volunteer.