Ost-Hiwi

 

Equestrian unit of Ost-Hiwi from the Soviet prisoners of war of Gebirgs-Division of the Nazi Wehrmacht (the Armed Forces of the Third Reich). Eastern Front, the Second World War in Europe.
Ost-Hiwi (Hilfswilliger, who wants to help) is the so-called Wehrmacht volunteer aides who were recruited (including forced mobilized) from the local population in the occupied territories of the USSR and from Soviet prisoners of war.

 

 

Location: USSR
Date: Fall 1942

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