" The Russians were called Hinis, meaning they were drafted by the Germans to do menial " A Hiwi ( Hilfswilliger ) was a foreigner who volunteered to serve the Nazis. The nameHiwis 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.
Thanks for correcting my spelling, typing on an iPhone keyboard on a plane in poor light can really screw up one's penmanship. FYI, the notion that Hiwis were all volunteers is not true, nor is the fact that there were recruited from POW camps. Most of them, at least at Stalingrad, were civilians who were usually conscripted to do the menial work supporting the German Army -- cooking food, digging latrines, building temporary shelters, driving trucks and handling supplies. They were screened for loyalty, and like ordinary men, many of them DID become very loyal to people who treated them kindly, paid them, and let them do some productive work.
There were a number of SS fighting divisions that were recruited from the conquered countries, and they were not called Hiwis as well. They were largely recruited from the free population. In Lithuania, a large number of Soviet forces deserted and went straight over to join the German forces; they never spent a day in a POW camp and were rapidly recruited to join rearguard security forces.