Word: holmston
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...other officers and men of the Wehrmacht Special Division R (for Russian) gathered in study groups and pored over military textbooks. By day, they were grocery clerks, railway engineers or textile workers; by night, they were heel-clicking soldiers unswervingly loyal to a general, who calls himself Arthur Holmston...
While the general and his men could claim to be the last openly functioning unit of Hitler's army, they grandiosely prefer to consider themselves the cadre of a future Russian army of liberation. All of them are White Russians. General Holmston was born Boris Smyslowski, near St. Petersburg, 55 years ago. He was a much-decorated Czarist lieutenant when he first started fighting the Reds in 1917. After the Bolsheviks won, he fled to Germany, adopted the name Von Regenau, and made a living as a timber inspector. In World War II, the Nazis sent...
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