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Word: smyslowski (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Last of the Wehrmacht | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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