Original Items: Only One Set Available. Due to engaging in wars on both sides of Europe, Germany was often short on manpower, so they began to recruit heavily from captured territories, particularly on the eastern front. They formed several foreign volunteer units, mainly with the purpose of being cannon fodder to preserve German troops. These grew in size as the war progressed, and utilized a wide variety of insignia.

This is a good lot of German Foreign Volunteer insignia, consisting of:

● Soviet Liberation Army Volunteers “POA” Sleeve Patch, “Bevo” style stitching with small holes in all four corners.
● ROA Soviet Liberation Army Cossack Foreign Volunteer Shoulderboards - Pair. They very much resemble early pattern Imperial / Weimar pattern, with angled edges and flaschengrün (dark bottle-green) tops. They are a bit different in construction, but we doubt this really mattered in the late war period.With these, the color of the piping indicated where they were from, and the hochrot (deep red) color were for Cossack volunteers, which were mostly from the Don Cossack group. Turkish volunteers had light blue piping, while volunteers from Azerbaijan were green. They are the button attached style, and have feldgrau undersides and straps. The Cossack Volunteers from the soviet era were mostly made a part of the Soviet / Russian Liberation Army, or Vlasov army, abbreviated to РОА in Cyrillic, or ROA in the German alphabet.
● Matched of foreign volunteer pattern shoulder boards, field gray, no insignia, button-attached variant. These have wide red tresse stripes on the bottom, so we believe they are also for Cossack Volunteers.
● Plain enlisted shoulder board, field gray, no insignia, button-attached variant.
● Pair of Azerbaijani Legion NCO green-backed collar tabs with darker green background and silver diamond-woven tresse around the entire perimeter all four sides.
● Single Georgian Legion Enlisted collar tab, printed green with a pink border.

A very scarce set of insignia for the German WWII foreign volunteers, ready for further research and display!

The Russo Liberation Army (ROA/POA), also known as the Vlasov army after its commander Andrey Vlasov, was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Soviets, that fought under German command during World War II.

Vlasov, a Soviet general, agreed to collaborate with NSDAP Germany after having been captured on the Eastern Front. The soldiers under his command were mostly former Soviet prisoners of war but also included White Russo émigrés, some of whom were veterans of the anti-communist White Army from the Russo Civil War (1917–23). On 14 November 1944, it was officially renamed the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russo, with the KONR being formed as a political body to which the army pledged loyalty. On 28 January 1945, it was officially declared that the Russian divisions no longer form part of the German Army, but would directly be under the command of KONR.

In May 1945, members of the ROA switched sides and joined the anti-NSDAP Prague uprising.

The Azerbaijani Legion (Aserbaidschanische Legion) was one of the foreign units of the Wehrmacht. It was formed in December 1941 on the Eastern Front as the Kaukasische-Mohammedanische Legion (Muslim Caucasus Legion) and was re-designated 1942 into two separate legions, the North Caucasian legion and the Azerbaijani legion. It was made up mainly of former Azerbaijani prisoner of war volunteers but also volunteers from other peoples in the area. It was part of the Ostlegionen. It was used to form the 162nd (Turkistan) Infanterie-Division of the Wehrmacht in 1943. Similar to other Ostlegionen, it was organised to replenish the dwindling German manpower on the Eastern Front and to "save the German blood at the front."

The Azerbaijani Legion participated in the systematic killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in Warsaw during the Wola massacre.

The Georgian Legion (Georgische Legion) was a military formation of NSDAP Germany during World War II, composed of ethnic Georgians. It was formed by Georgian émigrés and prisoners of war; its declared aim was the eventual restoration of Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union under National Socialist Party doctrine and supervision. Some components of the Georgian Legion fell under the operational control of Waffen-SS.

Compared to other Soviet nationalities, Georgians initially received a somewhat preferential treatment from the Germans. This was partly due to the classification of Georgians as Aryans in the NSDAP racial ideology and also because several Georgian scholars, such as Alexander Nikuradse and Michael Achmeteli, were advisers to leading National Socialists like Alfred Rosenberg.