RARE TURKISTAN VOLUNTEERS SHOULDER BOARDS in GERMAN WEHRMACHT
Turkistan volunteers matching set of shoulder boards.
Large boards with pointed ends and powder-blue piping, which was the color used by Turkistani volunteers.
TEST: This particular item passed very important test - it does not glow under the black lamp. All fabrics after 1945 are glow under the black light.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $600 - $700.
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WIKIPEDIA: The Turkestan Legion (German: Turkistanische Legion) was the name for the military units composed of the Turkic peoples who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II. Most of these troops were Red Army POWs who formed a common cause with the Germans (cf. Turkic, Caucasian, Cossack, and Crimean collaborationism with the Axis powers). Its establishment was spearheaded by Nuri Killigil, a Turkish theorist of Pan-Turkism, which sought to separate territories inhabited by Turkic peoples from their countries and eventually unite them under Turkish rule. The first Turkestan Legion was mobilized in May 1942, originally consisting of only one battalion but expanded to 16 battalions and 16,000 soldiers by 1943. Under the Wehrmacht's command, these units were deployed exclusively on the Western Front in France and Italy, isolating them from the Red Army. The battalions of the Turkestan Legion formed part of the 162nd Infantry Division and saw much action in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (especially modern-day Croatia) and Italy. Much of the Turkestan Legion was ultimately imprisoned by British forces and repatriated into the Soviet Union after the war's end, where they would face execution or incarceration by the Soviet government for having collaborated with the Nazis.

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