From May 1943 – arm-badge white shield with red borders with black St. George's cross. In the upper part a yellow abbreviation "POHA". Some sources noted that the Nazi swastika also appeared on the brigade banner.

The Russian Liberation Army (German: Russische Befreiungsarmee; Russian: Русская освободительная армия, Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, abbreviated as РОА, ROA, also known as the Vlasov army (Власовская армия, Vlasovskaya armiya) was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians ...

A history of the Polish underground's heroic and tragic 63-day struggle to liberate World War II Warsaw from German occupation told through documents, timeline, maps, photos, movie clips, and songs.

Apr 15, 2019 · In July 1944, the Polish Home Army (underground) used its long-husbanded weapons to revolt against Nazi occupation and take back Warsaw. The logic was that the Soviet Army would press forward to liberate the city.

S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. (also known as the Kaminski Brigade) was an anti-partisan formation composed of people from the so-called Lokot Autonomy territory in the Nazi Germany-occupied areas of Russia during World War II.

The origin and eventual fate of the infamous Kaminski Brigade is actually quite removed from that of the more popularly known echelons of the Russian’s in German Service under former-Russian General Vlassov’s so-called R.O.A. “Army of Liberation” (Russkaia Osvoboditelnaia Armiia).

May 11, 2022 · Its soldiers, dressed in Russian-style uniforms, assumed the name of the Russian National Liberation Army, or RONA (POHA in the Russian cyrillic alphabet). Initially, (mid-1942), the brigade was made up of 85% of locals, mostly local Russian* volunteers.

In May 1943 a new uniform pattern was introduced, complete with an arm badge: a shield with a smaller, red-rimmed white shield featuring St. George’s Cross below the Russian acronym, POHA, sewn onto it.

Aug 26, 2021 · Besides Vlasov's ROA, there was Bronislav Kaminski's Brigade (RONA/POHA - Russian National Liberation Army) which numbered 10,000 men. Kaminski's command was allowed by the Germans to have virtual control over a large chunk of the Russian territory (eventually the size of Belgium) in exchange for fighting the Soviet partisans.

Feb 27, 2023 · Just as an aside, this is the only photograph known showing the 'POHA' badge being worn on SS uniform, during the short period (June-October, 1944) that the Kaminski Brigade was officially a part of the SS, as Waffen-Sturmbrigade der SS 'RONA', before being disbanded prematurely.