North Caucasian Legion

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The North Caucasian Legion was a volunteer unit of the German Wehrmacht . The unit consisted of Circassians , Dagestans , Chechens , Ingush , other northern Caucasians and Russian emigrants, Soviet prisoners of war and defectors. It arose from the division of the Caucasian-Mohammedan Legion into the North Caucasian Legion and the Azerbaijan Legion .

history

The formation of the Legion began on August 5, 1942 at the Radom military training area near Radom in the General Government of Poland .

The North Caucasian Committee participated in the formation of the Legion and the call for volunteers. The leadership was joined by the Godoberier Ahmed Nabi Magomayev, the Ossete Alikhan Kantemir (former Minister of War of the Mountain Republic during the Civil War and still politically active in the later Soviet Mountain ASSR ) and Sultan Giray Klich (former general of the White Movement and chairman of the Committee of Mountain People within the movement). The Committee of the North Caucasian Committee published the appeal in Russian in the Gazavat newspaper .

The legion consisted of eight battalions with the numbers 800, 802, 803, 831, 835, 836, 842 and 843 as well as the special association miner . She served in Normandy , the Netherlands and Italy .

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. 20 vols. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1967 ff.
  • Walter Held: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II. A bibliography of German-language post-war literature. 5 vols. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1978 ff.
  • Joachim Hoffmann : The Eastern Legions 1941–1943. Turkotartars, Caucasians and Volga women in the German army. Rombach Verlag , Freiburg 1976.
  • Albert Jeloschek, Friedrich Richter, Ehrenfried Schütte, Johannes Semler jun. : Volunteers from the Caucasus. Georgians & Chechens on the German side. "The Special Association of Miners" under Theodor Oberländer . Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz, Stuttgart 2003.