Front officer

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During the Second World War , the Germans fighting on the side of the Red Army were designated as front officers . At the beginning of the war it was mainly German communists who had emigrated who were reinforced by members of the National Committee for Free Germany at the end of the war . About 2,000 front representatives on the Soviet side were assigned to the military fronts .

In addition to the pro-Soviet propaganda, mainly through leaflets and loudspeaker deployments, military reconnaissance was also carried out.

The Comité “Allemagne libre” pour l'Ouest (CALPO) also appointed German emigrants and former German members of the armed forces as representatives from the front. In 1944 about 80 people were trained for propaganda use .

Known front officers (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heike Bungert: The National Committee and the West , Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997, p. 212.
  2. ↑ Hans Gotthard Ehlert (Hrsg.), Armin Wagner (Hrsg.): Comrade General !: the military elite of the GDR in biographical sketches , p. 69.
  3. ^ Journal of History , Volume 42, Rütten & Loening, 1994, p. 655.
  4. ↑ Stefan Doernberg, Heinz Kühnrich: In league with the enemy: "Germans on the allied side" , Dietz, 1995, p. 105.
  5. ↑ Gottfried Hamacher. With the assistance of André Lohmar: Against Hitler - Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement: short biographies . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin. Volume 53. ISBN 3-320-02941-X ( PDF ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove them Note. , See also in the DRAFD e.V. wiki ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rosalux.de