privatehudson
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That would be why I rated it as an info thingy 
Anyway, to roughly quote from Nafziger's works on the Waffen SS and other units from WW2...
The Kalmucks are a mongolic people who inhabit the region northwest of the Caspian sea and west of the Volga. They are a nomadic people and Tibetan Bhuddists, and in 1935 Stalin established the area as an autonomous region. When the Germans reached the region, one of the officers involved had previously served as a white Russian cavalry officer during the civil war and knew the Kalmuck language well. Otto Doll was sent there to establish contact, and promised them their indepedence after the war in return for support during it. Doll helped organise the area, raising security troops, abolishing the hated collective farms and eventually raising military units (mostly horsemen). Not long afterwards though the Germans were forced to withdraw from the area, and the population fled with them to avoid Stalin's wrath. Less than a year from the first contacts being made, the Germans had recruited extensively from the Kalmucks, and had enough to form the Kalmuck Cavalry Corps. In German, all the words begin with a "K", hence it's abbreviation, the KKK.
Co-incidentally, it's ranks even included camel riders! It's ranks fought on the eastern front until whittled down until it effectively ceased to exist. Survivors ended up somewhere in Croatia by the end of the war.
Tibetan Bhuddists on camels with German uniforms on? Now that's an interesting unit
Anyway, to roughly quote from Nafziger's works on the Waffen SS and other units from WW2...
The Kalmucks are a mongolic people who inhabit the region northwest of the Caspian sea and west of the Volga. They are a nomadic people and Tibetan Bhuddists, and in 1935 Stalin established the area as an autonomous region. When the Germans reached the region, one of the officers involved had previously served as a white Russian cavalry officer during the civil war and knew the Kalmuck language well. Otto Doll was sent there to establish contact, and promised them their indepedence after the war in return for support during it. Doll helped organise the area, raising security troops, abolishing the hated collective farms and eventually raising military units (mostly horsemen). Not long afterwards though the Germans were forced to withdraw from the area, and the population fled with them to avoid Stalin's wrath. Less than a year from the first contacts being made, the Germans had recruited extensively from the Kalmucks, and had enough to form the Kalmuck Cavalry Corps. In German, all the words begin with a "K", hence it's abbreviation, the KKK.
Co-incidentally, it's ranks even included camel riders! It's ranks fought on the eastern front until whittled down until it effectively ceased to exist. Survivors ended up somewhere in Croatia by the end of the war.
Tibetan Bhuddists on camels with German uniforms on? Now that's an interesting unit
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