Germany’s Eastern Front AlliesA941-45Men-at-Arms * 131 OSPREY Germany’s Eastern Front Allies1941-45 © Abbott & Nigel Thomas - Illustrated by Mike ChappellFirst published in Great Britain in 1982 by Osprey Publishing, Ehns Court, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 gLP, United Kingdom. Email: info@ospreypublishing. com © 1982 Osprey Publishing Ltd. Reprinted 1985, 1985, 1985, 1987, 1989. 1991, 2, 1904, 1995; 1995. 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 All rights reserved, Apart from any fair dealing for the purpese of private study, research, criticism oF review, as permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act, “1988, no part of this publieation may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, eptical, photocopying, recarding or otherwise, without the prive permission of the copyright owner. Enquiries should he addressed to the Publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Abbott, Peter Germany's Eastern Front allies, 1941-45.— Men-at-Arms series; 131) 1, World War, 1939-1945 —Campaigns—Russia 1. Title 11. Thomas, Nigel TIT. Series g4o.5q'21 D757.54 ISBN 0 85045 475 1 Bibnset in Great Britain Printed in China through World Print Ltd. FOR A CATALOGUE OF ALL BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Osprey MILtraRY AND AVIATION PLEASE CONTACT: The Marketing Manager, Osprey Direct UK, PO Box 140, Wellingborough, Northants, NNB 4ZA, United Kingdom. Email: info@ospreydirect.co.uk The Marketing Manager, Osprey Direct USA, c/o Motorbooks International, PO Box 1, Osceola, WI 34020-0001, USA. Email: info@ospreydirectusa.com wiewscospreypublishing.com Author’s Note Inspite of the flood of works on the Second World War, the armies of Germany's East European Allies have received little attention. This book is an attempt to fill that gap. The general history of the war on the Russian front and the political histories of the countries con- cerned have been well covered elsewhere, and infor- mation on weapons and equipment is available in specialist works, but details of the organization of the smaller armies and divisional level orders of battle for them are hard to find, and we have accerdingly concentrated on these. Space does not permit ofa full bibliography, but we have used the ‘World War IT German Military Studies’ series and order of battle data from the German archives; British and American Intelligence material ; Finnish, Hungarian and Rumanian language official histories and other publications (including Vladescu’s work on Rumanian uniforms) ; together with books and articles in German (notably by Adonyi, Emilian, Forstmeier and Gosztony) and English (especially Doyle and Kliment, Probst and Prieskop).. We would like to acknowledge the generous help provided by Philip Buss-MA, Karlheinz Biler, Monsignor Vitéz Gabor, Dr Friedrich Herrmann, Charles Kliment, Dr Mare Landry, Frankyn G. Prieskop, Henry Riititel, Pierre Verheye, Steven Zaloga, and the staffs of the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; the Finnish Embassy London; the Heeresgeschicht- liches Museum, Vienna; the Imperial War Museum and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London. Much of our material derives ultimately from their researches: any mistakes, however, are our own,