The Romanov Succession

A HISTORICAL NOTE

During the battle for Moscow very early in 1942, Major General Andrei A. Vlasov, charged with the defense of the city, was captured by the Wehrmacht—perhaps by his own design—and became a prisoner of war.

While in the camps Vlasov was approached by officers of German Intelligence to raise a Russian liberation army from among Russian prisoners-of-war to fight alongside the Wehrmacht against the Red Army. They were trained at a special camp, set up late in 1942, at Dabendorf near Berlin.

Vlasov fell into American hands at the end of the war in 1945. He was turned over to the Soviets and was executed.