Kalmykian Cavalry Corps

Doctor Doll Kalmyk Formation
Kalmücken Verband Dr. Doll
Доктор Доллин Хальмг мөртә церг
Active1942–1945
Country Nazi Germany
Branch German Army
RoleCavalry
Size5,000
ColorsRed, gold
EngagementsWorld War II

The Kalmykian Cavalry Corps (German: Kalmücken-Kavallerie-Korps; also known as: German: Kalmücken Verband Dr. Doll, Oirat: Доктор Доллин Хальмг мөртә церг, romanized: Doktor Dollin Xalmg mörtä tserg, [ˈdoktər ˈdolin xɑlʲˈmək mœrˈtæ t͡sɛˈrək], Dr. Doll Kalmyk Formation (Dr. Doll was an alias of Otto Werba)) was a unit of about 5,000 ethnic Kalmyk volunteers who chose to join the German Army in 1942 rather than remain in Kalmykia as German forces retreated before the Red Army.[1] Stalin subsequently declared the Kalmyk population as a whole to be German collaborators in 1943 and ordered mass deportations to Siberia suffering great loss of life.

  1. ^ J. Otto Pohl (1999). Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949. Greenwood Press. pp. 61–65. ISBN 978-0-313-30921-2.

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