Download or read book Cossacks in the German Army, 1941-1945 written by Samuel J. Newland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1991 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cossacks who wore German uniforms saw their service not as treason to the motherland, but as an episode in the revolution of 1917, part of an ongoing struggle against Moscow and against Communism. Their reward was forced repatriation into Stalin's Gulag at the hands of Western powers in 1945.