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    Ostlegionen ("eastern legions"), Ost-Bataillone ("eastern battalions"), Osttruppen ("eastern troops"), and Osteinheiten ("eastern units") were units in...
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    Dawletschin was one of the founders of the legion's newspaper, Idel-Ural. Ostlegionen Wigger, Leo (2020-05-27). "Tatars in the Wehrmacht: 'Almost half defected...
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    older than their Allied counterparts. Many in the Normandy area were Ostlegionen (eastern legions)—conscripts and volunteers from Russia, Mongolia, and...
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    on the Eastern Front. Non-Russians from the Soviet Union formed the Ostlegionen (literally "Eastern Legions"). The East Legions comprized a total of...
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    Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Troops) Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) Ostlegionen (Eastern Legions) Panzergrenadier (Mechanized Infantry) Panzerjäger (Anti-Tank...
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    to northern Italy. The 162nd became the largest division of all the Ostlegionen. Infantry Battalion No. 450 was also drawn from ethnic Turks and Azeris...
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    part of the Ostlegionen. It was used to form the 162nd (Turkistan) Infanterie-Division of the Wehrmacht in 1943. similar to other Ostlegionen, it was organised...
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    to other fronts and the replacement of its soldiers with third-rate Ostlegionen outfitted with obsolete equipment. Hindered by Allied air supremacy and...
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    the Armed Forces of the so-called North Caucasus National Committee. Ostlegionen Tscherim Soobzokov Napso N.T. The North Caucasian Military units in the...
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    who been captured by the Wehrmacht and joined either the German Army's Ostlegionen or the SS; the French called all these men "Mongols" regardless if they...
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