Any collaborationist/volunteer forces from the following?

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bertamingo
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Any collaborationist/volunteer forces from the following?

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Post by bertamingo » 08 Jun 2014, 20:24

Hello people, I wonder if there were any collaborationist and/or volunteer forces from these areas served the Axis during ww2:
1,Egypt, small portion under Axis occupation. I know there were plots among Egyptian army officers to launch uprising and join Axis, but were there any really joined during WW2?
2,Sudan, small portion under Italian occupation briefly.
3,Papua New Guinea, some parts of it were occupied by Japanese forces. I have seen limited information on indigenous units set up by Japanese in the West part of New Guinea Island which was under Dutch colonial rule. Were there similar units in the eastern part under Australian mandate?
4,Tunisia, which was a French protectorate, briefly occupied by Germany and Italy. There were some volunteers in the German African Corps, besides that anything else, what about the colonial police and the sultan's personal royal guards?
5,Nauru, Guam, Wake Island and other small islands occupied after outbreak of Pacific War. Were there any indigenous units from these countries like local police or Heiho(Japanese army auxiliaries) serving the Japanese?
Any help will be greatly appreciated :lol:

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Post by ninoo » 09 Jun 2014, 03:48

You could read about Egypt and Tunisia volunteers and collaborators in "Brigade Arab Hitler" (Nilia Pustaka) and "Legiun Arya Kehormatan" (Elex Media), both in Indonesian.

Beside, there was an Eygptian prince name Dawoud, life in exile, that joined with Osttürkische Waffen-Verbände der SS.
Anwar Sadat, a member of Egyptian Free Officers who collaborated with two German agents, was an Egyptian-Sudan (his mother is a Sudanese)

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Post by bertamingo » 09 Jun 2014, 09:23

ninoo wrote:You could read about Egypt and Tunisia volunteers and collaborators in "Brigade Arab Hitler" (Nilia Pustaka) and "Legiun Arya Kehormatan" (Elex Media), both in Indonesian.

Beside, there was an Eygptian prince name Dawoud, life in exile, that joined with Osttürkische Waffen-Verbände der SS.
Anwar Sadat, a member of Egyptian Free Officers who collaborated with two German agents, was an Egyptian-Sudan (his mother is a Sudanese)

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Thank you very much, brother! That would be very helpful, I will go and find these two books. :D

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Post by Ghjuvan » 28 Nov 2014, 20:27

In Tunisia, the colonial authorites did support Vichy governement till US landing in Algeria and Morocco. After that there was a "Phalange africaine' French unit, fighting along with german troops.(about 200 people, mostly French settlers and soldiers).

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Post by Loïc » 29 Nov 2014, 17:02

this unit concerns few European volunteers, the KODAT, a regimental size-unit was raised from Algerian Moroccan and Tunisian "indigenous"
it was formed in Tunisia in january of 1943 as Kommando Deutsch-Arabische Truppen having two battalions of Arab volunteers of Tunisia, an Algerian battalion and a Moroccan battalion a total of 3000 men with German cadre, but curiously much less known than the first
the "Vichy" authorities complained that the number of north-africans spies acting for german espionage has increased tenfold after 1940

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