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The 1st Cossack Cavalry Division (German: 1. Kosaken-Kavallerie-Division) was a Cossack division of the German Army that served during World War II.It was created on the Eastern Front mostly with Don Cossacks already serving in the Wehrmacht, those who escaped from the advancing Red Army and Soviet POWs.
The XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps [a] was a World War II cavalry corps of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party, primarily recruited from Cossacks.It was originally known as the XIV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps from September 1944, after Helmuth von Pannwitz's 1st Cossack Cavalry Division of the Wehrmacht was transferred to the SS, before being renumbered as XV in February 1945.
1st SS Cossack Cavalry Division; 1st Cossack Volunteer Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Cossack Cavalry Division; 4th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union) 4th Guards Cavalry Corps;
37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division "Lützow" 38th SS Grenadier Division "Nibelungen" Also: SS-Main District Bohemia-Moravia (see above ↑ note) Panzer Division "Kempf", a temporary unit of mixed Heer and Waffen-SS components; 1st Cossack Cavalry Division; 26th SS Panzer Division (brigade size only, division title used as deception)
1st SS Cossack Cavalry Division; 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division; 2nd Cossack Cavalry Division; 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer; 33rd Waffen Cavalry Division of the SS (3rd Hungarian) 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow
There, its performance was generally effective, although at times brutal. In late 1944, the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division was admitted into the Waffen-SS, and enlarged into the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps. [115]: 110–126, 150–169
He also accepted the help of a Russian anticommunist Cossack, Prince Amassov. Amassov led a small force of Cossack cavalry that had deserted the German 1st Cossack Cavalry Division and was present in the area. [1] After arriving at the farm, Colonel Reed looked for vehicles to move the pregnant horses and new-born foals.
15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian) May 1943 [70] Latvian conscripts [70] n/a n/a XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps: December 1944 [36] Don, Cuban, Terek and Siberian Cossacks [37] n/a Formed from the 1st and 2nd Cossack Cavalry Division, and the Cossack Plastun Brigade. [36] 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian ...