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| During the World War II considerable number of Armenians Cooperated with Nazis to regain the territories lost to Soviet Union. | |||
| ==Background== | |||
| ] | |||
| The short-lived ] established in 1918 in the ] by the ] was conquered by the Russian ]s in 1920, and ceased to exist. During World War II, some of the Dashnaks saw an opportunity in the collaboration with the Germans to regain those territories. | |||
| ==Nazi perspective== | |||
| ], Hitler's Minister of the Occupied Territories, declared that the Armenians were ], or ]. One of Nazis' major projects demostrated that ] had been born Armenian, not ], parents.<ref>Claudia Koonz. , The Nazi conscience,p. 213, Jesus had been born Armenian, not Jewish, parents.</ref> | |||
| ==Armenische Legion== | |||
| The Armenian Legion was the name given to the 812th Armenian Battalion, was a foreign unit of the ] during ], comprised largely POW ] of the ], under the leadership of ]. | |||
| ==Activities== | |||
| ] ] ''freiwillige'' (voluntaries) during rest performing ''Berd'' (Fortress), the traditional Caucasian warriors' dance after celebrating victory over Soviet partisans.]] | |||
| The legion participated in the occupation of the ]n Peninsula and the ].<ref name="auron238">Auron. ''The Banality of Denial'', p. 238.</ref><ref>, Yair Auron, p. 238</ref> | |||
| One part of the Armenian Legion formed the 4th Battalion of the 918th Grenadier Regiment, 242 Infanterie-Division, one of the few Eastern Legion units to be given German insignia after March 18, 1944. The battalion was destroyed in the defense of Toulon.<ref>{{cite book | |||
| | last = Thomas | |||
| | first = Nigel | |||
| | others= Stephen Andrew | |||
| | title = The German Army 1939-45 (5) | |||
| | publisher =Osprey Publishing | |||
| | location= Oxford | |||
| | year = 2000 | |||
| | pages=43–44 | |||
| | isbn =1-8553-2797-X}}</ref> At the end of the war, the remaining members in the battalion surrendered to the Western ]. If not detained by them, they were turned over to Soviet authorities who, under an order enacted by Soviet leader ], were sent to camps in ] as punishment for surrendering to Axis forces and "allowing themselves to be captured," a fate suffered by nearly all of the former Soviet prisoners of the war. | |||
| ==Hairenik== | |||
| Hairenik which was an Armenian language weekly newspaper published in Watertown, Massachusetts in the United States supported ] and his racial policies; and the party's “Race Worship Society” marched in Boston before and during ].<ref></ref> | |||
| ==References== | |||
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