Turkestan Legion
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title:
Turkestan Legion
text:
The Turkestan Legion was the name of the military units composed of Turkic peoples who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II. Most of these troops were Red Army prisoners of war who formed a common cause with the Germans. Its establishment was spearheaded by Nuri Killigil, a Turkish theorist of Pan-Turkism, which sought to separate territories inhabited by Turkic peoples from their countries and eventually unite them under Turkish rule. Although Asian peoples had been perceived as "raciall
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description:
German military unit in World War II
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan_Legion
date created:
2006-11-25T03:15:46Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T23:20:54Z
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