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Signal English 1943 Nr 24            48 Pages

Special Eastern Territories Number

Cover:

“There’s my name!…”
A lieutenant in the Kuban Cossacks visits the Ogpu prison where he had once been a prisoner (see the article on page 2)
PK. Photograph War Correspondent Pabel

Articles Inside:

The Volunteers

The dead and the living. The question of Europe’s preservation.
By Giselher Wirsing

The way across
PK. Photograph: War Correspondent Kraayvanger

A Cossack comes …
PK. Photographs: War Correspondent Grimm

They have had enough…
PK. Photographs: War Correspondents Ripken and Figlhuber

 Why are they Bolshevists?
The man who wrote the article here published by SIGNAL has spent 25 years in the Soviet Union. He collaborated for a number of years in the political government of the country. He has also spent a number of years in banishment north of the Arctic Circle as well as a long time behind the walls of concentration camps. He is acquainted with the life and feelings of all classes of people under the Bolshevist rule and as an expert he explains the fateful question why so many people suffering under Bolshevism still fight for it

The Defence Corps In Serbia
The Russian Defence Corps In Serbia is composed of men of whom many are descended from those fighters against Bolshevism who as the “While Army” 25 years ago were betrayed by Britain and the United States and forced Io emigrate after a heroic campaign

Two of the leaders of the anti-Soviet movement:

Deli Kaium-Khan, President of the ••National Committee for Turkestan Unity”

Major Fatalibeyli Dudanginsky, leader of the Aserbeidjan volunteers

Twelve rings already
PK. Photograph: War Correspondent Troll 

Two flags
PK. Photograph: War Correspondent Artur Grimm

The General-in-Command
PK. Photograph: War Correspondent Kintscher

Decorations for bravery and merit

The general commanding the eastern troops inspects . . . (General Hellmich)
PK. Photographs: War Correspondent Hilmar Pabel

Decoration for bravery (S.S. Brigade Commander von Scholz)

The soldier’s fate…
PK. Photographs: Front Correspondents Vermeer, Schürer

SIGNAL here shows a few examples of their operations and their life as soldiers
PK. Photographs War Correspondents Pabel (2), Nieberle (1), Artur, Grimm (3), Mossdorf (3)(General Vlassov)

Cossacks at rest
PK. Photograph: War Correspondent Artur Grimm

Ranks of the Eastern Volunteers

Five soldiers. Character sketches from a Volunteer Regiment     
We here reproduce the portraits of five Cossacks who after enlisting in a native regiment, have given proof of their high military ability as particularly outstanding N.C.O.s in the struggle against the Soviets
PK. War Correspondent Herbert Steinert

In action

Comrades. An operation against a guerilla position
Some of the units of the Eastern Volunteers are led by German officers. SIGNAL’S war correspondent, Hilmar Pabel, had the good fortune during one of the actions in which he
took part to witness an example of the good comradeship existing between one of these leaders and his men. He was even able to take a number of photographs.

An army and everything attaching to it. The life of the volunteer units
Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians . . . members of all the races and tribes In the east have streamed in continually increasing numbers to the German armies for enrolment in a Volunteer Army which is fighting shoulder Io shoulder with the Germans against the Soviets. This army has at its disposal infantry, cavalry, artillery and engineers, that is to say troops and weapons of all kinds. They have shown surprisingly quickly that the true soldierly spirit can soon be kindled In them when a great idea is at stake.

What they are fighting for

In this number, SIGNAL describes for its readers how the volunteers from the east have been fighting until now. The following reports show what they are fighting for and what it is that moves them to join the front against Bolshevism

For the rights of their peoples
The volunteer units from the eastern territories personify the natural rights of over 160 peoples who lost their individuality when forcibly banded together as the Bolshevist U.S.S.R. SIGNAL here introduces 12 examples
(Fiodr Ivanov, Tatashvill, Vladimir Maximenko, Sigerbai Kusherbal, Idris Shakirov, Hasmik Nasarian, Timer Gallamov, Vassili Kigorovitch, Alexei Sovichenko, S. Havibakshi, Machmet Hadaiuhov, Ivan Kulkaanen)
PK. Photographs. War Correspondents Pabel, Grimm, Frenske, Modi, Arndt, Kirsche, Mittelstaedt, Knaack

Home on leave. With his family again
Many of the volunteers are natives of the regions occupied by the German Army. They are given leave just like their German comrades and at harvest time some of them have special privileges. They return to their native villages, where they are joyfully welcomed by wife and children, to till their own land

On their own soil.

Life on their own land

On The Western Model
The farmers are not slow in putting into practice with their own native skill what they have seen at travelling exhibitions. SIGNAL’S reporter noted In one of the villages of the east, which had just been visited by such a travelling exhibition, how a few days later the farmers were busy making gates exactly corresponding to the model. A change in the face of the village is already apparent where European order is replacing Soviet neglect

Life in a city
Life has been in full swing again for some time in the cities occupied by the German Forces in spite of the fact that they were partly burnt down during the fighting. But it is a different kind of life from that which reigned under the Bolshevist regime. The doors have been thrown open everywhere to free initiative and activity. At first the inhabitants were distrustful, but gradually they won confidence in the new administration. In the end the responsibility and control was entrusted to them as far as possible, so that today only the highest administrative positions are still occupied by Germans. As a result, cooperation runs more and more smoothly

…and in the village
PK. Photographs: War Correspondent Gronefeld

The symbols of their faith. The reopening of the churches …..

An Army: …and everything

Everywhere it has been employed, the Army of the Volunteer Units formed by the eastern peoples has proved its mettle in the struggle against the Soviets. Behind the front, however, the native volunteer units indulge in all the activities of troops not actually engaged in the fighting for the moment. SIGNAL also describes this side of the volunteers’ life
PK. Photographs: War Correspondents Zeymer Schmerr, Modl, Scheerer, Pabel, Mehls

…and in the hospital

Evenings In The Stanitza
PK. Artist War Correspondent Bottcher

Nazalia
The girl from the Ukraine

In Germany. . .

They experience Germany . . .

Life awakens … Kira dances

Signal. Special Eastern Territories Number, 1943 / A bi-weekly publication / Editor Wilhelm Reetz, Deputy Editor: Hugo Mösslang / Signal is published and printed by Deutscher Verlag Berlin SW 68, Kochstrasse 22-26. Copyright under international Copyright Convention / All right reserved