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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.
The XVth SS Cossack Cavalry Corps included the 1st Cossack Division and the 2nd Cossack Division. The majority of the Cossacks remained loyal to the Red Army. [ 26 ] In the earliest battles, particularly the encirclement of Belostok Cossack units such as the 94th Beloglisnky, 152nd Rostovsky and 48th Belorechensky regiments fought to their death.
In World War II, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, many Cossacks continued to serve in the Red Army. Some fought as cavalry in the Cossack divisions, such as the 17th Kuban Cossack Cavalry Corps and the famous Lev Dovator Corps, later awarded the honorific designation "guard" in recognition of its performance.
The 2nd Cossack Cavalry Division (German: 2. Kosaken-Kavallerie-Division) was a short-lived cavalry division of Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS during World War II. The division existed from November 1944 until May 1945. It was one of two Waffen-SS Cossack divisions, along with the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division.
The corps was formed on 19 November 1942 as the 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps, assigned to the Northern Group of Forces of the Transcaucasian Front.Under the command of Major General Alexey Selivanov, the corps was assigned the 11th and 12th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Divisions, the 63rd Cavalry Division, and other units.