Back فرقة الفرسان القوزاق إس إس الخامس عشر Arabic XV SS Cuerpo de Caballería Cosaco Spanish 15e corps SS de cavalerie cosaque French קורפוס הפרשים הקוזאקים אס אס ה-15 HE 15. kozački konjanički korpus SS-a Croatian XV SS-Kosaken Kavallerie Korps Italian XV SS Kozakken Cavaleriekorps Dutch XV Kozacki Korpus Kawalerii SS Polish Corpul al XV-lea SS de cavalerie cazacă Romanian 15-й казачий кавалерийский корпус СС Russian
| XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps | |
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| XV. SS-Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps 15-й казачий кавалерийский корпус СС | |
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| Active | 1944–1945 |
| Country |  Germany |
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| Type | Cavalry |
| Size | 50,000[2] |
| Part of | Army Group F |
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The XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps[a] was a World War II cavalry corps of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party, primarily recruited from Cossacks. It was originally known as the XIV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps from September 1944, after Helmuth von Pannwitz's 1st Cossack Cavalry Division of the Wehrmacht was transferred to the SS, before being renumbered as XV in February 1945. The two brigades of the division were expanded when the corps was formed, so they became the new 1st and 2nd Cossack Cavalry Divisions. A third division was also planned on but never officially activated, with only one separate brigade being established. Although the corps was officially part of the Waffen-SS, its members never wore any SS insignia and its officers remained the same as before.
In late April 1945, shortly before the end of the war, the corps was transferred from the SS to the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, becoming the XV Cossack Cavalry Corps of the VS KONR.[b] Ivan Kononov was appointed the corps commander with the title Ataman of All Cossack Forces, but this change was not implemented before the end of World War II in Europe. The Cossack Corps, led by Pannwitz, retreated from occupied Yugoslavia with the rest of the Wehrmacht's Army Group F and surrendered to the Western Allies in Austria in May 1945.
- ^ Littlejohn 1987, p. 296.
- ^ Newland 1991, p. 166.
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