XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Over a million men with ancestral roots in the Soviet Union fought together with the German armed forces. Of all eastern volunteers, the Cossacks were allowed to muster the largest single concentration within the German Army. Cossacks had, in fact, been operating as part of the Wehrmacht from virtually the start of Operation Barbarossa. The summer of 1942 marked the high tide of German success in the East. In October 1942 the Germans established in the Kuban a semi-autonomous Cossack District and were now in the position to recruit Cossacks from these areas, the POW camps, and defectors from the Red Army. Of the latter, the most significant was the desertion of an entire Red Army regiment (Infantry Regt. 436) which, with all officers, went over to the Germans on August 1941. Its commander, Major I.N.Kononov, was a Don Cossack. He had a distinguished career in the German service, ending the war as Major General in the XVth Cossack Cavalry Corps under the command of the German General Helmuth von Pannwitz.

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