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Hiwi was a foreigner who volunteered to serve the Nazis. The name
Hiwis acquired a thoroughly negative meaning following
Operation Barbarossa in World War II. Between September 1941 and July 1944 the
SS employed thousands of collaborationist
auxiliary police recruited as German
Hiwis directly from the Soviet
POW camps. After training, they were deployed for service with
Nazi Germany in the
General Government and the occupied East.