Idel-Ural (Legion)

The Legion Idel -Ural was set up by the German Wehrmacht in 1942 of representatives of Turkic peoples in the Soviet Union. In several battalions served in the Legion a total of approximately 12,500 people. On February 23, 1943 in Vitebsk almost the whole battalion ran 825 ( about 900 people) over to the partisans. Many of them fell victim to repression.

One of the best known representatives of the resistance within the Legion Idel -Ural against the Germans was the Tatar poet Musa Cälil.

Swell

  • Plotzensee Memorial, Idel -Ural
  • Foreign volunteer unit of the Wehrmacht
  • Established in 1942
  • Dissolved in 1943
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