Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli

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Abdurahman Fatalibeyli-Dudanginsky
Fatalibeyli-Dudanginsky in Red Army
Nickname(s)Fetheli Bey
Born(1908-06-12)12 June 1908
Dudanga, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire
Died22 November 1954(1954-11-22) (aged 46)
Munich, West Germany
Buried
Cemetery of Neu-Ulm Germany
Allegiance
Service/branch
Years of service
  • Soviet Union 1939–41
  • Nazi Germany 1943–45
Rank
Unit
  • 804th "Aslan" Battalion
  • 807th "Igit" Battalion
Battles/wars
Other work
Radio Liberty

Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli (birth surname Dudanginski,

Soviet army major who defected to the German forces during World War II
.

Life

Soviet Union

Fatalibeyli was born in the village of Dudanga (near present-day

Andrey Grechko said the following about Fatalibeyli: "He possessed with incredibly sharp intelligence and analytical thinking. He was a commander by birth. In the questions of military tactics, none of us could compare to him."[4]

In 1936, Fatalibeyli was expelled from the party due to having lied about his social origins and having reported himself to be of peasant stock.

Soviet-Finnish War of 1939, receiving the Order of the Red Star.[6] He became major in 1941, but was captured[5] by German troops in the Baltic front in September 1941[6] and sent to a prisoner of war camp.[5]

Nazi Germany

Fatalibeyli-Dudanginsky in Wehrmacht

After (or during) imprisonment in Poland, he joined the

Malaya Laba River (Малая Лаба) and Bagovskaya (Баговская). After the death of Dr. Gloger on 4 February 1943, when the battalion retreated to the Kuban bridgehead (Kuban-Brückenkopf ), Fatalibeyli-Dudanginsky temporarily commanded the battalion until Captain Haverland was appointed as the new commander in late March. And later he served for the 806th Infantry Battalion "Igit" (literally "Brave Battalion") and I/73rd[citation needed]. While fighting guerrilla attacks, he received the Iron Cross and promoted to major of the German military in 1943[citation needed
].

He was head of the "

anti-Soviet Moslem Union[citation needed
].

In November 1943, a broadcast of radio DNB (Deutsche Nachrichten Büro) announced that the first battalion of Azerbaijanis, which had actively fought against the Bolshevism during more than one year, "proved their valor, and were included in German Storm Troops and decorated by the German Army." It was also announced that a conference about Azerbaijan had taken place in Berlin on 7 November under the command of major Dudanginski. A dispatch dated 16 November 1943, mentioned specifically that this conference had been followed "by the Mufti of Jerusalem" and "the representatives of the peoples of the Caucasus, the Ural and Turkestan."

More than 700 Azeris participated in the battle of Berlin in 1945. Abo surrendered to Allied forces, and began to work for American intelligence.[citation needed] After the war, Fatalibeyli was cleared by the U.S. War Department's Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency.[citation needed]

Cold War

By 1948, he had been invited to Egypt and was a military adviser to the Arabs during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[9]

In 1953 he began working for CIA-funded

Isar River near Munich. Two months later (on 24 November), Fatalibeyli was found garroted in the apartment of Mikhail Izmailov. Although never conclusively proved, KGB involvement was suspected in both cases.[10] The last living contemporary witness, Beschir Alizade, working with Fatalibeyli at Radio Liberty, died on 16 January 2016 in Neu-Ulm
. To protect himself from the KGB, he changed his name from formerly "Mirhashim Alijev" to Beshir Alizade. The family only found out about this in 2021 when his son Aydin visited the family in Azerbaijan.[citation needed]

See also

  • Aserbaidschanische Legion
  • Azeri SS volunteer formations

References

  1. ^ Federal Government's Handling of Soviet and Communist Bloc Defectors: Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, October 8, 9, 21, 1987, Volume 4, U.S. G.P.O., 1988, p. 573.
  2. ISBN 978-3-7700-0273-3, p. 115.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7864-4138-9, p. 36.
  4. ^ Rahman Badalov. Time to Separate from Heroic Myths. Part I. Radio Liberty. 2 March 2010.
  5. ^ a b c By Arch Puddington. Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. University Press of Kentucky, 2003
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8131-9045-7, p. 229.
    .
  7. ISBN 975-7893-41-2
    , p. 142.
  8. ^ http://dudanginski.com/news/hyat_v_faliyyti/2009-10-18-50[permanent dead link]

    Ikinci Dunya muharibəsində Azərbaycan legionunun başcısı olub.

    [dead link]
  9. ^ Puddington, 229.
  10. ^ On Air for Half a Century by Ivan Tolstoi. Radio Svoboda. 3 October 2004

External links

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