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himself. Besides raping women, killing people and plundering and burning towns suspected of harboring partisans and their supporters, the division used telegraph poles along the railroad tracks for mass hangings as a warning to the partisans and others. Although the behavior of the
Cossacks was not
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Russian language skills, the Wehrmacht was forced to relax its policy against accepting émigré officers, and a number of Cossack émigré officers living in
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The division was formed starting 4 August 1943 by merging the Platow and von
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villagers were killed. Subsequently, the unit was used to protect the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad and the
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The Cossacks felt closer to this Serbian minority in
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Nikolai Kulakkov of the Terek host.
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915:. London: Routledge.
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562:Alexander von Boesse
547:Helmuth von Pannwitz
466:Dragoljub Mihailović
198:Helmuth von Pannwitz
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1413:Landstorm Nederland
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404:Second Panzer Army
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978:978-0-4650-3813-8
957:978-0-8047-3615-2
922:978-0-7146-8199-3
903:978-0-8117-3437-0
569:Konstantin Wagner
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