Roland Battalion

Identifier
668
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

Roland Battalion had been formed in Austria. Together with Nachtigall, a volunteer Bulgarian battalion, the Roland Battalion is also known to the Ukrainians as Druzhyny Ukraninsskyh Natsionalistiv. After the start of Operation Barbarossa the Roland Battalion moved into the southern Soviet Ukraine.

Places

  • Founded in Austria, active in the Ukraine.

Sources

  • Ukrainian Armies 1914-55 / P. Abbott. - Oxford, 2004. - p. 37