Fyodor Truhin rose to the rank of major general in the Red Army, but WWII changed his fate. Captured by the Germans in 1941, he defected, training Nazi collaborators and leading forces against the Soviets. As Chief of Staff of the KONR (the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia), ...

Antonina Makarova, known as “Tonka the Machine-Gun Girl,” was a Soviet woman who collaborated with Nazi Germany, executing around 1,500 civilians, including women and children. Once a nurse, she became the Nazis’ paid executioner in the Lokot Republic. Decades later, her hidden past was uncovered...

Sergei Bunyachenko was a Soviet general who defected to Nazi Germany, joining Andrey Vlasov’s Russian Liberation Army. Once a decorated Red Army officer, he fought against his own countrymen, earning the Iron Cross. In 1945, his troops briefly aided the Prague uprising against the SS. Captured af...

Captured as a Soviet soldier, Ivan Marchenko became one of Treblinka’s most feared guards. Known as “Ivan the Terrible,” he operated gas chambers, beat victims with a water pipe, and committed unspeakable acts of cruelty. Discover how a prisoner of war became a key player in the Holocaust.

Bronislav Kaminski rose from Soviet prisoner to the leader of the German-backed Lokot Republic and commander of the infamous Kaminski Brigade. His men waged a campaign of murder, rape, and looting in Belarus, Poland, and during the Warsaw Uprising, killing tens of thousands of civilians. Feared f...

From Soviet hero to Nazi collaborator, Andrey Vlasov’s path was one of the most controversial in WWII. Once celebrated as a Soviet war hero, General Andrey Vlasov shocked the world by joining Nazi Germany. His story is one of ambition, betrayal, and desperation. This film uncovers his rise, his f...