The repatriation of Cossacks after World War II was the forced transfer of approximately 45,000 to 50,000 Cossack collaborators, including military personnel and civilian dependents, from Allied occup
Cossack troops in the Wehrmacht, occupied Soviet Union, 1942
The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at the Yalta conference.
Pyotr Krasnov during trial, 1947
Cossack cemetery in Peggetz
Cossack collaboration with Nazi Germany represents a complex and controversial chapter of World War II collaborationist movements. For Cossack émigré leaders, the German invasion offered an opportunit
Repatriation of Cossacks after World War II
…The repatriation of Cossacks after World War II was the forced transfer of approximately 45,000 to 50,000 Cossack collaborators, including military personnel and civilian dependents, from Allied occupation zones to the Soviet Union between May 1945 and May 1947. The operations…
General Andrei Shkuro and Helmuth von Pannwitz in 1943
Cossack unit entering a Croatian village, February 1945
SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth, the "Butcher of Wola" (left, in Cossack headgear) with Jakub Bondarenko, commander of Kuban Cossack Infantry regiment, during the suppression of Warsaw Uprising