The Turkestan Legion (German: Turkistanische Legion) was the name of the military units composed of Turkic peoples who served in the Wehrmacht during...

memorandum ordered that the OKW was to create two Muslim units: the Turkestan Legion, consisting of Central Asian Muslim volunteers; such as Turkomans,...

Caucasian Legion / Mountain-Caucasian Legion. The initial placement of the Legion was Wesel. In October 1941, one for each of the Turkestan and Caucasian...

Nogais[citation needed] Volga Tatar Legion, which included also Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Mari, Udmurt, Mordwa Turkestan Legion Azeri Waffen SS Volunteer Formations...

Armenian Legion. In May 1943 rank insignia of Czarist Russian type were introduced, followed in December 1943 by those shown in the tables below. Turkestan Legion...

Ostlegionen ("eastern legions"), Ost-Bataillone ("eastern battalions"), Osttruppen ("eastern troops"), and Osteinheiten ("eastern units") were units in...

services as an intelligence asset. He was involved in establishing the Turkestan Legion comprised by Turkic captives from the Soviet Union. Ruzi was wounded...

Lieutenant-General Boris Kazanovich, October 1919 – February 1920. Turkestan Army (RSFSR) Turkestan Legion Evan Mawdsley (2011-07-04). The Russian Civil War. Birlinn...

Cavalry Corps 162nd Turkestan Division Armenian Legion Azerbaijani Legion Georgian Legion Caucasian-Mohammedan Legion North Caucasian Legion Kalmykian Cavalry...

recruits, but these plans were abandoned after the creation of the Turkestan Legion. All three battalions of the LVF were deployed as a single unit for...

personnel from the Soviet Union, including the Caucasian Muslim Legion, Turkestan Legion, Crimean Tatars, ethnic Ukrainians and Russians, Cossacks, and...

citizens: fourteen in the Turkestan Legion, nine in the Armenian Legion, eight each in the Azerbaijani and Georgian Legions, and seven in the North Caucasian...

1941) was a Kazakh social and political activist and ideologue of the Turkestan Autonomy. From 1921, he lived in exile in France. Mustafa Shokay was born...

The Czechoslovak Legion (Czech: Československé legie; Slovak: Československé légie) were volunteer armed forces consisting predominantly of Czechs and...

1941. Then he served as an officer in the Turkestan Legion of the German Wehrmacht. While serving in the legion he met the legendary Turkistani nationalist...

German support for the Pan-Turkic cause. With his assistance, the Turkestan Legion was formed by the Schutzstaffel. During World War II, Killigil was...

Volunteer freiwillige troops of the Turkestan Legion in France, 1943...

internment camps within German occupied territories served within Turkestan Legion or joined the French Resistance. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in...

Legionowo new Warsaw housed Turkic peoples that were later sent to the Turkestan Legion. Zeppelin had sections in the major camps as well. For example, it...

Tsakalotos Traugott Herr Units involved 1st Infantry Division 2nd Infantry Division 3rd Mountain Brigade 1st Fallschirmjäger Regiment Turkestan Legion...

November–December 1941, Hitler ordered the formation of four Eastern Legions: Turkestan, Georgian, Armenian and Caucasian Mohammedan. In August 1942, the...

Soviet rule in Central Asia. During World War II, the Nazis founded a Turkestan Legion which was primarily composed of soldiers who hoped to establish an...

Tatar Legion, monthly publication, Berlin 1944–1945 (bilingual) Turkestaner (Central Asian nation) Yeni Türkistan ("New Turkestan") – Turkistan Legion Svoboda...

parts of the USSR (such as the Kaminski Brigade, the Armenian Legion, and the Turkestan Legion). The first formation ever raised was the 201st Latvian Rifle...

in 1864. On August 8, 1866, he was promoted to lieutenant in the 1st Turkestan Infantry Battalion, and took part in the conquest of Bukhara, the storming...

as well as the SS Division Galicia, Belarusian Home Defence, the Turkestan Legion, and pro-Nazi sabotage units as well as police. In his book published...

the city of Vynohradiv. On 18 November 2015, the brigade's honorifics "Turkestan twice Red Banner" were removed as part of an Armed Forces-wide removal...

included the Crimean-Azov Army, the Forces of Northern Caucasus and the Turkestan Army. By October 1919, the army had 150,000 soldiers, which included 48...

Cossack Kalmyk named Lavga Deldinov and adopted in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan (now Kazakhstan) by the family of his mother's brother, the Russian Cossack...

leyb-gvardi) SibCorps = Siberian Corps (Sib. k = Sibirsky korpus) TurkCorps = Turkestan Corps (Turk. k = Turkestansky korpus) Northwestern Front (until August...