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Biography Misak Torlakyan was born in 1890 in the village of Kyushan, Trebizond vilayet. He graduated from a local school and took part in the liberation struggle of the Armenian Haidut troops against the Turkish occupiers. By the beginning of the First World War, he joined the army of Tsarist Russia and as part of one of the Armenian regiments, in 1915 he fought his way to Trebizond. For courage and resourcefulness he was awarded a cross and appointed platoon commander. Here he learned that his native village had been massacred, and 16 of his 17 family members were killed. At the beginning of 1918, together with the Russian troops leaving Western Armenia after the October Revolution, he, at the head of a small detachment of 20 people, retreated to the Caucasus. In Tiflis he organized the training of 600 volunteers for the Armenian army. With this detachment he managed to help Andranik , who fought near Erzurum . He took part in battles against the Turkish invaders near Kars, Alexandropol and Sardarapat, where he was wounded in May 1918. In the Caucasus, Misak Torlakyan met the future participants of Operation Nemesis Z. Melik-Shakhnazaryan and A. Yerkanyan and expressed his readiness to take part in committing acts of retaliation against Turkish criminals - the organizers of the Armenian genocide. In December 1920, he arrived in Constantinople, at the disposal of the editor-in-chief of the Chakatamart newspaper , Manuk Aslanyan , who was responsible for selecting people for Operation Nemesis. There he joins the group of avengers ( Harutyun Harutyunyan , Ervand Fundekyan , Misak Torlakyan). In July 1921, the group was informed that one of the perpetrators of the Armenian pogroms in Baku (September 1918), the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Musavat government of Azerbaijan, Behbut Khan Jivanshir, was hiding in Constantinople, and was under surveillance. July 19, 1921 - the sentence was carried out, Behbut Khan was killed. August 28-October 20, 1921 Misak Torlakian appeared before a British military tribunal. After listening to the testimony of witnesses and reviewing materials about the pogroms in Baku, the court found him guilty, but not responsible for his actions. November 8, 1921 - he was sent to Greece; then lived in Belgrade and Bucharest. In Europe, he devoted himself entirely to the internal life of the Armenian diaspora, established contacts with Garegin Nzhdeh , Dr. Khatisyan , Dr. Hayk Asatryan and General Dro . With the outbreak of World War II and the entry of the German army into the USSR, he, together with generals Dro and Nzhdeh, took part in the formation of Armenian units within the Wehrmacht. He led the intelligence and sabotage and reconnaissance units of the Armenian Legion. He personally carried out the operation and captured secret documents of the Turkish command regarding plans to spread pan-Turkism and seize the Caucasus. After General Nzhdeh’s meeting with Rosenberg and the presentation of secret materials, the Reich leadership abandoned its plans to use the Turkish army in the Caucasus. At the end of the war, he found himself in the American occupation zone and was released as having not committed war crimes. In subsequent years he lived in Stuttgart (Germany), and from 1952 - in California (USA). http://ru.hayazg.info/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8F%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA