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The Tatar Legions were auxiliary units of the Waffen-SS formed after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Volga Tatar Legion, which included also Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Mari, Udmurt, Mordwa[2]
^Littlejohn, David (1994). Foreign Legions of the Third Reich, Vol. 4: Poland, the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Free India, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Russia. San Jose, California: R. James Bender Publishing. pp. 250–253, 271. ISBN 0-912138-36-X.
^Borsarello, J.-F.; Palinckx, Werner (2007). Wehrmacht & SS: Caucasian-Muslim-Asian Troops (in French). Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc. p. 73. ISBN 9782840482192.
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with majority Muslim membership. It was composed mostly of ethnic Crimean Tatars and was based in the Kherson region bordering Crimea. It did not participate...
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азат итү операциясе". Tatar Encyclopaedia (in Tatar). Kazan: The Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002...
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