An incredibly rare cuff title “Sprachmittler” Interpreter for the Staff of the RAO, Russian Liberation Army. This is also a manufacturer’s proof by Genzsch & Heyse in Hamburg. The common literature shows only a graphic interpretation of the actual offered cuff title in “Foreign Legion of the Third Reich” Volume 4, by David Littlejohn, 1987, Page 342.

Printed in black on cotton and adhered to the manufacturers proof card.

The Russian Liberation Army (German: Russische Befreiungsarmee; Russian: Русская освободительная армия, Russkaya osvoboditel’naya armiya, abbreviated as РОА or ROA) was a collaborationist military force primarily made up of Russian soldiers that fought alongside Nazi Germany during World War II. It is also known as the Vlasov Army (Власовская армия, Vlasovskaya armiya) after its leader, Andrey Vlasov, a former Red Army general who defected to the German side. The soldiers of this army were often referred to as Vlasovtsy (Власовцы). In 1944, the group became formally known as the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (Вооружённые силы Комитета освобождения народов России, Vooruzhonnyye sily Komiteta osvobozhdeniya narodov Rossii, abbreviated as ВС КОНР or VS KONR). From January 1945 onward, the army was commanded by Vlasov himself.