Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945
Samuel J. Newland
236 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0714633518
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Language: English
Publish: April 4, 1991
The Cossacks who wore German uniforms saw their service not as treason to the motherland, but as an episode in the revolution of 1917, part of an ongoing struggle against Moscow and against Communism. Their reward was forced repatriation into Stalin’s Gulag at the hands of Western powers in 1945.