“The application point of all Russian patriots’ forces” or Germans accomplices: white emigrants about the Russian Corps in the Balkans (1941-1945).

Abstract

The article gives the perception of the Russian Protective Corps by representatives of the White émigré in 1941-1945 and in the post-war period. The source is based on emigrants memoirs, correspondence, periodicals, documentation of individual organizations including stored in the State Archive of the Russian Federation. Grounded on these materials, the author shows the peculiarities of the Russian Corps perception by white emigrants. The documents analysis allows drawing a conclusion about the polarity of opinions even among the irreconcilable part of the emigration.

Keywords

• russian corps
• russian military emigration
• white emigrants
• world war ii
• m.f. skorodumov
• a.i. denikin
• p.n. krasnov
• russian all-military union