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Tatar Legions

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The Tatar Legions were auxiliary units of the Waffen-SS formed after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

It included:

  1. Crimean Tatar Legion,[1] comprising Crimean Tatars, Qarays, Nogais
  2. Volga Tatar Legion, which included also Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Mari, Udmurt, Mordwa[2]
  3. Crimean Jaegers

See also

References

  1. ^ Littlejohn, David (1994). Foreign Legions of the Third Reich, Vol. 4: Poland, the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Free India, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Russia. San Jose, California: R. James Bender Publishing. pp. 250–253, 271. ISBN 0-912138-36-X.
  2. ^ Borsarello, J.-F.; Palinckx, Werner (2007). Wehrmacht & SS: Caucasian-Muslim-Asian Troops (in French). Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc. p. 73. ISBN 9782840482192.

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