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Andrey Vlasov and General Zhilenkov (center) of the Russian Liberation Army meeting with Joseph Goebbels (February 1945).Soldier of the Free Arabian Legion in Greece, September 1943.
Among the approximately one million foreign volunteers and conscripts who served in the Wehrmacht World War II were ethnic Belgians , Czechs , Dutch , Finns , Danes , French , Hungarians , Norwegians , Poles ,[1] Portuguese , Swedes ,[2] Swiss along with people from Great Britain , Ireland , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , and the Balkans .[3] Spaniards served in the Blue Division .[4]
Some estimates state anywhere between 600,000 and 1,400,000 Soviet citizens (Russians and other non-Russian ethnic minorities) joined the Wehrmacht forces as Hiwis (or Hilfswillige [5] Ukrainian collaborationist forces were composed of an estimated number of 180,000 volunteers serving with units scattered all over Europe.[6] émigrés and defectors from the Soviet Union formed the Russian Liberation Army or fought as Hilfswillige within German units of the Wehrmacht primarily on the Eastern Front .[7] Ostlegionen (literally "Eastern Legions"). The East Legions comprized a total of 175,000 personnel.[8] Ernst August Köstring (1876−1953).[9] [10]
These units were often under the command of German officers and some published their own propaganda newssheets.
List of units [ edit ]
Foreign volunteer battalion in the Wehrmacht . Soldiers of the Free Arabian Legion in Greece, September 1943. Spanish volunteer forces of the Blue Division entrain at San Sebastián , 1942. The Ukrainian Liberation Army 's oath to Adolf Hitler. Ingrian Wehrmacht volunteers, 1942.
Soviet Union [ edit ]
Croatia [ edit ]
Middle East [ edit ]
Azerbaijani, Georgian and Armenian volunteers [ edit ]
North Caucasian volunteers [ edit ]
Kaukasisch-Mohammedanische Legion
Kaukasischer-Waffen-Verband der SS or Freiwilligen Brigade Nordkaukasien (volunteers from the North Caucasus region)
Nordkaukasische Legion
Freiwilligen-Stamm-Regiment 1 (North Caucasian volunteers)
Sonderverband Bergmann
II. Sonderverband Bergmann Battalion (North Caucasian volunteers)
SS-Waffengruppe Nordkaukasus (North Caucasian volunteers; Chechens, Ingush & Dagestani)
Central Asian volunteers [ edit ]
162. (Turkistan) Infanterie-Division (Turkestani volunteers)
Muselmanischen SS-Division Neu-Turkistan (Turkestani volunteers)
Turkistanische Legion
Böhler-Brigade (Turkestani volunteers)
1. Turkestanisches-Arbeits-Battalion (Turkestani volunteers)
2. Turkestanisches-Arbeits-Battalion (Turkestani volunteers)
3. Turkestanisches-Arbeits-Battalion (Turkestani volunteers)
Osttürkischer Waffen-Verband der SS or 1. Ostmuselmanisches SS-Regiment (Central Asia volunteers)
Turkestanisches-Arbeits-Ersatz-Battalion (Turkestani volunteers)
Waffen-Gruppe Turkistan (Central Asian volunteers)
Kalmykian volunteers [ edit ]
Kalmüken Verband Dr. Doll (Kalmykian volunteers)
Abwehrtrupp 103 (Kalmykian volunteers)
Kalmücken Legion or Kalmücken-Kavallerie-Korps
Tatar volunteers [ edit ]
Tatar Legion
SS-Waffengruppe Idel-Ural
Waffen-Gebirgs-Brigade der SS (Tatar Nr. 1) (Tatar volunteers)
30. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (Russische Nr. 2) (Armenian & Tatar volunteer units)
Wolgatatarische Legion Volga Tatars but also other volunteers from the region)
Tataren-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment der SS (Crimean Tatar volunteers)
Waffen-Gruppe Krim (Crimean Tatar volunteers)
Schutzmannschaft Battalion
Cossack volunteers [ edit ]
1. Kosaken-Kavallerie-Division (volunteers from Cossacks in Cherson, from February 1945 XV. SS-Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps
Kosaken-Reiter-Brigade Kaukasus II (Caucasus Cossack volunteers)
Kuban-Kosaken-Reiter-Regiment 3 (Kuban Cossack volunteers)
Don-Kosaken-Reiter-Regiment 5 (Don Cossack volunteers)
Terek-Kosaken-Reiter-Regiment 6 (Terek Cossack volunteers)
Kosaken-Artillerie-Regiment 2 (Caucasian Cossack volunteers)
Sibirisches Kosaken-Reiter-Regiment 2 (Siberian Cossack volunteers)
XV. Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps (Kotelnikovo Cossack volunteers)
Freiwilligen-Stamm-Regiment 5 (Cossack volunteers)
Caucasian mixed volunteer units [ edit ]
Caucasian, Central Asian, Crimean and Ural mixed volunteer units [ edit ]
Waffen-Gruppe Turkistan
Waffen-Gruppe Idel-Ural
Waffen-Gruppe Azerbaijan
Waffen-Gruppe Krim
Propaganda newspapers for Caucasian and Cossack units [ edit ]
Azerbaijan
Azerbajçan – Azerbaijani Legion
Kalmykia
Kalmyckij Boec ("Kalmyk Soldier") – Kalmyk Cavalry Corps
Kosaken (Cossack Nation)
Kosaken-Illustrierte ("Cossack Illustrated") – 1st Cossack Cavalry Division (trilingual)
La terra dei cosacchi ("The Land of the Cossacks") – Cossack units in upper Italy
Krimtürken (Crimean Tatars)
Kirim ("Crimea") – Weekly paper for the Crimean Tatar volunteers, Berlin 1944–1945
Tataren (Tatar nation)
Deutsch-tatarisches Nachrichtenblatt ("German-Tatar News Journal") – Volga Tatar Legion, monthly publication, Berlin 1944–1945 (bilingual)
Turkestaner (Central Asian nation)
Yeni Türkistan ("New Turkestan") – Turkistan Legion
Svoboda ("Freedom") – 162nd Turkoman Division
Türk Birligi ("Turkish Unity") – Osttürkischer Waffen-Verband der SS , weekly publication, Berlin 1944–1945
German commanders of Central Asian, Caucasian and Cossack units [ edit ]
These German commanders also received honorary military or leading titles between their units at charge; for example Helmuth von Pannwitz received the title of "Ataman " from his Cossack units.
German representative of the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories [ edit ]
Central Asian, Caucasian and Cossack political leaders [ edit ]
Puppet governments and organizations in the USSR [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Wangel, Carl-Axel (1982). Sveriges militära beredskap 1939-1945 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Militärhistoriska Förlaget. ISBN 978-91-85266-20-3
^ Grasmeder, Elizabeth M.F. "Leaning on Legionnaires: Why Modern States Recruit Foreign Soldiers" . International Security . Retrieved 30 July 2021 .
^ "Spain's Nazi volunteers defend their right to recognition - and German pensions" . The Daily Telegraph . 30 November 2015.
^ Audrey L. Alstadt (2013). "The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule ". p. 187. ISBN 9780817991838
^ Carlos Caballero Jurado (1983). Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941–45 ISBN 978-0-85045-524-3
^ M. V. Nazarov, The Mission of the Russian Emigration, Moscow: Rodnik, 1994. ISBN 5-86231-172-6 [page needed
^ "Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941-1945" Appendix 3
^ Dermot Bradley , Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Rövekamp: Die Generale des Heeres 1921–1945. Band 7: Knabe–Luz. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2004, ISBN 3-7648-2902-8 .
^ "SS: Hitler's Foreign Divisions" description
^ Rolf Michaelis: Die Waffen-SS. Mythos und Wirklichkeit. Michaelis-Verlag, Berlin 2001, p. 36
^ Nikolai Tolstoy (1977). The Secret Betrayal ISBN 0-684-15635-0
^ Carlos Caballero Jurado; Ramiro Bujeiro (2009). Blue Division Soldier 1941-45: Spanish Volunteer on the Eastern Front 34 ISBN 978-1-84603-412-1
Bibliography [ edit ]
Further reading [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wehrmacht_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts&oldid=1230387052 " C a t e g o r i e s : ● F o r e i g n v o l u n t e e r u n i t s o f t h e W e h r m a c h t ● C r i m e a i n W o r l d W a r I I ● H i s t o r y o f t h e C a u c a s u s u n d e r t h e S o v i e t U n i o n ● H i s t o r y o f t h e C o s s a c k s ● H i s t o r y o f t h e T u r k i c p e o p l e s H i d d e n c a t e g o r i e s : ● C S 1 S w e d i s h - l a n g u a g e s o u r c e s ( sv ) ● W i k i p e d i a a r t i c l e s n e e d i n g p a g e n u m b e r c i t a t i o n s f r o m M a y 2 0 1 9 ● A r t i c l e s w i t h s h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n ● S h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n i s d i f f e r e n t f r o m W i k i d a t a
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a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
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