Kalmykian Voluntary Cavalry Corpsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Kalmykian Voluntary Cavalry Corps was a unit of about 5,000 Kalmykian volunteers who chose to join the German Armed Forces (Wehrmacht) in 1942 rather than remain in Kalmykia as the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) retreated before the Red Army. (In 1943 Stalin subsequently declared the Kalmykian population as a whole to be German collaborators and had them deported to Siberia suffering great loss of life.) When Erich von Manstein led the 16th Motorized Infantry Division into Kalmykia in early 1942 he already had some Kalmykian advisors from a committee drawn together by Goebbels for propaganda purposes. These were supplemented by other Kalmykians who had settled in Belgrade following their flight with White Russian emigres after the Russian October Revolution.