Bronislav Kaminski

Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski (Russian: Бронисла́в Владисла́вович Ками́нский; 16 June 1899 – 28 August 1944) was a Soviet Nazi collaborator. Kaminski was the commander of the eponymous Kaminski Brigade, an anti-partisan and rear-security formation made up of people from the Lokot Autonomy (1941–1943), part of the German-occupied area of the Soviet Union. The Kaminski Brigade later became part of the Waffen-SS as the Waffen-Sturmbrigade RONA (Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Narodnaya Armiya — Russian People's Liberation Army). Under Kaminski's command, the unit committed numerous war crimes and atrocities in the German-occupied Soviet Union and in Poland. The unit is regarded as one of the most brutal units, with Kaminski himself feared by his subordinates. Kaminski's behavior made the Germans lose confidence in him: in August 1944, he was court-martialed and executed. His brigade was later disbanded and its remaining personnel absorbed into General Andrey Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army.