Ostlegionen ("eastern legions"), Ost-Bataillone ("eastern battalions"), Osttruppen ("eastern troops"), and Osteinheiten ("eastern units") were units in...
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Dawletschin was one of the founders of the legion's newspaper, Idel-Ural. Ostlegionen Wigger, Leo (2020-05-27). "Tatars in the Wehrmacht: 'Almost half defected...
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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...
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on the Eastern Front. Non-Russians from the Soviet Union formed the Ostlegionen (literally "Eastern Legions"). The East Legions comprized a total of...
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to northern Italy. The 162nd became the largest division of all the Ostlegionen. Infantry Battalion No. 450 was also drawn from ethnic Turks and Azeris...
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to other fronts and the replacement of its soldiers with third-rate Ostlegionen outfitted with obsolete equipment. Hindered by Allied air supremacy and...
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older than their Allied counterparts. Many in the Normandy area were Ostlegionen (eastern legions)—conscripts and volunteers from Russia, Mongolia, and...
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Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Troops) Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) Ostlegionen (Eastern Legions) Panzergrenadier (Mechanized Infantry) Panzerjäger (Anti-Tank...
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who been captured by the Wehrmacht and joined either the German Army's Ostlegionen or the SS; the French called all these men "Mongols" regardless if they...
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the Armed Forces of the so-called North Caucasus National Committee. Ostlegionen Tscherim Soobzokov Napso N.T. The North Caucasian Military units in the...
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throughout Germany), which included the Azerbaijani Legion (part of the Ostlegionen), and the SS Assault Brigade RONA (Russian National Liberation Army)...
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formation of German-allied divisions consisting of Soviet POWs (see Ostlegionen). These results and missed opportunities contributed to the defeat of...
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War II when it entered into several other languages in reference to Ostlegionen as well as volunteers enlisted from occupied territories for service...
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Oskar Dirlewanger, which included the Azerbaijani Legion (part of the Ostlegionen). British historian Martin Windrow described Dirlewanger's unit as a...
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Army Ukrainian Insurgent Army Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Ostlegionen (mainly units of peoples from the Caucasus) Russian Liberation Movement...
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Infanterie-Bataillon 842 Azerbaijani Legion Collaboration with the Axis powers Ostlegionen "Turkestanische Infanterie". www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de. Retrieved...
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und Kalmyken 1942 bis 1945 (Germans and the Kalmyk people) (1977), Die Ostlegionen 1941 bis 1943 (1981) and Kaukasien 1942/43: Das deutsche Heer und die...
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Azerbaijani Legion Georgian Legion (1915–1918) Georgian Legion (1941–1945) Ostlegionen Auron, Yair (2003). The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide...
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Holocaust. On the Eastern Front the volunteers and conscripts in the Ostlegionen comprised a fighting force equivalent of 30 German divisions by the end...
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older than their Allied counterparts. Many in the Normandy area were Ostlegionen (eastern legions)—conscripts and "volunteers" from Turkestan, Russia...
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Starting in 1943 served as military recruiter, most likely for the Ostlegionen. Escaped via Vatican and CIA ratlines to the US after the war. 1943 Hans...
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in the Wehrmacht. Between early 1942 and late 1943, the Kommando der Ostlegionen in Polen formed a total of 54 battalions, but this was not the only place...
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prisoners of war in Finland Mühlviertler Hasenjagd Military collaboration Ostlegionen Armenian Legion Azerbaijani Legion Georgian Legion Idel-Ural Legion North...
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Captured Soviet soldiers of Muslim backgrounds volunteered in large numbers for the Ostlegionen of the Wehrmacht....
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Dirlewanger), which included Aserbaidschanische Legion (part of the Ostlegionen), Attack Group Reck (commanded by Major Reck), Attack Group Schmidt (commanded...
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soldiers: Gerhard von Mende archives) Azerbaijani Legion Free Arabian Legion Ostlegionen Israfil Israfilov Klietmann 1965, pp. 381–382; Referred there to as "Turk-Btl...
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(Ost-Arbeiter). Soviet subjects who had volunteered for the German Army Ostlegionen and/or Waffen SS units were forcibly repatriated. These included Russian...
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of the 1st Cossack Division. A number of Cossacks who served in the Ostlegionen and the Waffen-SS ended settling in Australia, where they were welcomed...
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Lang, page 259. "Europe's Last Battle | History Today". Lang, page 260. Ostlegionen Tetri Giorgi Bergmann Battalion Union of Georgian Traditionalists Georgian...
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land front of Cherbourg Harbour. The Division included a number of "Ostlegionen" – eastern – units of various nationalities, mainly from the occupied...
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