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    Hiwi ([ˈhiːviː]), the German abbreviation of the word Hilfswilliger or, in English, auxiliary volunteer, designated, during World War II, a member of...
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    Trawnikis belonged to a category of Hiwis (German abbreviation for Hilfswilliger, literally "those willing to help"), Nazi auxiliary forces recruited...
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    uniforms. Baltics and Balkans. Hilfsarbeiter. Russians, Poles, Czech. Hilfswilliger or Zwangsarbeiter. Jews. Zwangsarbeiter. Stateless German Speakers....
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    anti-Nazi Prague uprising. These volunteers (called Hiwi, a compression of Hilfswilliger, which can be translated as "those willing to help") were not under...
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  • Wachmann Nikolay Yegorovich Shalayev was a Soviet SS auxiliary guard (Hilfswilliger) trained at Trawniki and serving as a gas chamber operator at the Treblinka...
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    According to OKH Instruction 8a/3 29.4.1943, all in closed formations or as Hilfswilliger employed Armenian soldiers in the Wehrmacht/Heer would collectively...
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  • 1950 Fusilier Royal Irish Fusiliers SS-Jagdverband Mitte 22. 4. SS-Hilfswilliger Celliers* William South African policeman from Windhoek, South-West...
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  • Demjanjuk, worked as Nazi concentration camp guards, Trawniki men or Hilfswilliger, others committed atrocities against civilians as members of the Ukrainian...
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  • the ghetto uprising in minute detail, eager to mention the foreign Hilfswilliger ("willing helpers") in the death of over 50,000 Polish Jews: "They did...
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    unknown. The fort was also used to train German auxiliary personnel (Hilfswilliger). Former barracks, headquarters and warehouses of the fortress were...
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