Smolensk Committee

The Smolensk Committee (at times also listed as the Vlasov Committee ) was an association of Soviet military and politicians who were willing to cooperate with the German authorities and troops, founded in Smolensk on December 27, 1942 .

Although Adolf Hitler ignored the group founded on German initiative, it was promoted by high German officers, including Colonel Helmuth Stieff and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg . In the spring of 1943 General Vlasov was won over by the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) to write a "Smolensk Manifesto" calling for a fight against Stalin . This manifesto was dropped behind the Soviet lines. On June 8, 1943, Adolf Hitler banned further activities of the committee.

Web links

• Page 237 of the book Chronicle of the Second World War , by Hanno Ballhausen and Friedemann Bedürftig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Studt et al.: The Third Reich in Data , p. 201
2. ^ Wilhelm von Schramm: The Secret Service in Europe 1937-1945 , Albert Langen / Georg Müller Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1974, page 269