Bronislav Kaminski

Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski
Kaminski in May 1944
Ober-Burgomeister of Lokot Autonomy
In office
8 January 1942 – 26 August 1943
Preceded byKonstantin Voskoboinik
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born(1899-06-16)16 June 1899
Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died28 August 1944(1944-08-28) (aged 45)
Litzmannstadt, Reichsgau Wartheland, German-occupied Poland
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
AwardsIron Cross, 1st Class
NicknameWarlord of the Bryansk Forest
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union
 Nazi Germany
Years of serviceSoviet Union 1918–1921
Nazi Germany 1941–1943
RankWaffen-Brigadeführer der SS
CommandsWaffen-Sturm-Brigade der SS RONA

Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski (Russian: Бронисла́в Владисла́вович Ками́нский, 16 June 1899 – 28 August 1944) was a Nazi collaborator[1][2] and the commander of the Kaminski Brigade, an anti-partisan and rear-security formation made up of people from the so-called Lokot Autonomy territory (1941-1943) in part of the German-occupied area of the Soviet Union. The Kaminski Brigade later became part of the Waffen-SS as the SS Sturmbrigade RONA (Russian People Liberation Army – Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Narodnaya Armiya, RONA). (Older publications mistakenly give Kaminski's first name as Mieczyslaw.[3][4]) Under Kaminski's command, the unit committed numerous war crimes and atrocities in the German-occupied Soviet Union and in Poland. The unit is regarded as one of the most brutal units, with Kaminski himself feared by his subordinates.[5][6]

  1. ^ Levene, Mark (2013). Annihilation: Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192509567.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference rein was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Janusz Marszalec: Z krzyżem świętego Jerzego, "Polityka" nr 31/2001, ss.66-68
  4. ^ Davies, Norman, Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw. (2004) ISBN 0-670-03284-0 / ISBN 978-0-670-03284-6
  5. ^ Bishop, Chris (2003). SS: Hell on the Western Front. Staplehurst: Spellmount. p. 91–92. ISBN 1-86227-185-2.
  6. ^ Finder, Gabriel N.; Prusin, Alexander V. (2018). Justice Behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland. University of Toronto Press. pp. 220–221. ISBN 978-1-4875-2268-1.

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