00:00in my video texel nineteen forty five i already talked about the mutiny of the georgian infantry battalion eight hundred
00:07twenty two which was integrated into the wehrmacht in my video texel nineteen forty five the betrayal of the georgians
00:14which with a strength of seven hundred fifty six men served as a german occupation force and to defend against
00:22the possible allied landing on the dutch north sea island of texel on the night of the fifth to the
00:27sixth april nineteen forty five attacked their sleeping german cadre personnel with whom they had celebrated just the evening before
00:36and brutally slaughtered them in a gruesome manner
00:41by sunrise up to four hundred of the sleeping germans and unsuspecting german guards stationed on the island are said
00:49to have been murdered
00:51brought up to the island the german units had killed most of the mutineers even within the commando unit of
00:59the chief of german military intelligence in the okw admiral wilhelm canaris the legendary brandenburg division
01:06where from autumn nineteen forty three each battalion had received a fourth so-called legionnaire company made up of russians
01:14ukrainians caucasians and others from the caucasus etc
01:19in the same year all of the fourth companies deployed in the central section of the eastern front had mutinied
01:26except for a few groups and after killing the german staff had defected to the red army
01:34as with the mutiny just mentioned on texel there are still a considerable number of incidents in which the foreign
01:41soldiers turned against their german comrades with a significant number being killed
01:47for example in the french town of villefranche on the night of september sixteenth to seventeenth nineteen forty three with
01:56the thirteenth
01:57ss mountain division hansha first croatian on that particular night of september sixteenth to seventeenth nineteen forty three a communist
02:07agent planted in the unit
02:09the bosnian lieutenant ferret kanik who had previously served in the royal yugoslav army and was now a lieutenant in
02:17german service along with three others
02:20in the ss mountain engineer battalion thirteen an uprising planned by him was triggered during which five german officers were
02:29murdered
02:32however before german forces could be brought in battalion imam halim malkok ensured through speeches to two bosnian companies
02:43that these two units suppressed the mutiny within a few hours during which around one hundred fifty insurgents were killed
02:51among them was the leader kanik
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