Russian Protective Corps

The Russian Protective Corps (German: Russisches Schutzkorps, Russian: Русский охранный корпус, romanized: Russkiy okhrannyy korpus, Serbian: Руски заштитни корпус, romanized: Ruski zaštitni korpus) was an armed force composed of anti-communist White Russian émigrés. Raised in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II and commanded for almost its whole existence by Lieutenant General Boris Shteifon, it served primarily as a guard force for factories and mines between late 1941 and early 1944, initially as the "Separate Russian Corps" then as the Russian Factory Protective Group.

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Russian Protective Corps

The Russian Protective Corps (German: Russisches Schutzkorps, Russian: Русский охранный корпус, romanized: Russkiy okhrannyy korpus, Serbian: Руски заштитни корпус, romanized: Ruski zaštitni korpus) was an armed force composed of anti-communist White Russian émigrés. Raised in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II and commanded for almost its whole existence by Lieutenant General Boris Shteifon, it served primarily as a guard force for factories and mines between late 1941 and early 1944, initially as the "Separate Russian Corps" then as the Russian Factory Protective Group.

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