ON THIS DAY, OVER 600,000 AZERBAIJANIS WERE CONSCRIPTED TO THE RED ARMY DURING WORLD WAR II, AND ABOUT 300,000 AZERBAIJANIS TROOPS WERE KILLED.
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13.Panzer of German III Panzer Korps reached what will be the farthest point to the southeast reached by the German military when it was halted by Soviet forces 5 miles outside Ordshonikidze, Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan played an important part in Operation Barbarossa and was essential to the Soviet war effort.
Four out of five Soviet aircraft, tanks and trucks used in World War II ran on fuel produced in Baku refineries from oil extracted in the Baku oil fields.
From the start of Operation Barbarossa, when German troops
invaded the USSR in June 1941, until the end of the war, Azerbaijan
produced 75 million tonnes of crude oil, 80% of the union’s petrol, 90%
of its naphtha and 96% of its lubricants.
Over 600,000 Azerbaijanis were conscripted to the Red army during World War II from 1942 to 1945.
Out of them, about 300,000 Azerbaijani troops were killed. Some 15,000 medical workers were deployed on the Eastern Front, along with 3,750 operators of motorized vehicles.
Divisions from Azerbaijan marched from the Caucasus to Berlin.
Up to 40,000 individuals ‘volunteered’ for service in the German Army during World War 2.
Many of these individuals were recruited from German POW camp's, whilst others joined up hoping to realise the dream of independence from the Soviets.
Under the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, an infamous Waffen SS penal unit led by SS-Oberführer Oskar Dirlewanger, participated in the systematic killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in Warsaw during the Wola massacre.
Two hours before midnight on 5 August, the Azerbaijani soldiers and the Bergmann Battalion attacked St Lazarus hospital, executed hundreds of patients, doctors, and nurses, before burning it down.
British historian Martin Windrow described Dirlewanger's unit, which included the Azerbaijani legion, as a "terrifying rabble" of "cut-throats, [foreign] renegades, sadistic morons, and cashiered rejects from other units".
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