The Cossacks who wore German uniforms saw their service not as
treason to the motherland, but as an episode in the revolution of
1917, part of an ongoing struggle against Moscow and against
Communism. A Wehrmacht needing men and an SS hungry for power
reinterpreted or ignored Hitler's racist ideology to form entire
divisions of Cossack volunteers. German offices developed
relationships to "their" Cossacks similar to those in the French
and British colonial armies. The Cossacks responded by fighting
effectively and reliably on the Russian Front and in the Balkans.
Their reward was forced repatriation into Stalin's Gulag at the
hands of the Western powers in 1945.
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