Many German people participated in fighting against the Soviet Union, but gradually retreated from the Front due to collusion of fascism with German fascism.

Nearly 1.5 million German ethnic people lived in the Soviet Union when World War II broke out.

More than 33,000 German ethnic minority people served in the Red Army at the time of fascism of invading the Soviet Union.

Dozens of Germans in the Soviet Union fought in Brest Fortress, which suffered from the severe attack of Germany on June 22, 1941.

Major Dulkayt (left) and Meyer.

For nearly a week, the Infantry Division No. 153 under the command of Colonel Nikolai Gagen repelled units of Germany's No. 39 troops in the suburbs of ViTebsk.

However, the decree of the supreme Soviet Chairman of the Soviet Union on resettlement of the Germans living in the Volga region on August 28, 1941 changed the fate of the German minority community in the tragic direction.

The attitude of the government with the German people gradually changed when the German army moved deep into the Soviet territory, especially when the report appeared, the German villages in Ukraine welcomed the enemy.

Military campaigns in the Dniester River show that German people here have shot into our soldiers are withdrawing, the report of the commander of the Southern troops to the leader IoSEF Stalin on August 3, 1941 has a paragraph

Despite the fact that thousands of German volunteers rushed to the recruitment point with the hope of the front line, the German origin in the Soviet Union was considered the fifth army, all referring to those at risk of collusion with the enemy.

According to the Ordinance, the German Autonomous Republic in Volga is dissolved.

Colonel Nikolai Gagen.

At the same time, German people were also withdrawn from the front line.

With many Germans, this decision is a shock.

Not all Germans in the Soviet Union accepted to work in the rear.

Some German people still persevere to fight.

In 1941, Paul Shmidt fled with a railway construction project to go to the front line, where he used the fake name to Ali Akhmedov to fight.

Many Germans in the Soviet Union also participated in resistance militants.

About several hundred Dao Ngu soldiers turn to the Soviet side during the war, but the Soviet Union was not too confident in doubt they spied and only arranged jobs in the rear.