sentences:  On the day of the attack on 22 June 1941 in Paris, the Nazis arrested all the well-known Russian emigrants and imprisoned them in the castle of Compiègne (Château de Compiègne).There numbers included Shokay.After three weeks he was taken to Berlin and a two weeks offered to lead the Turkestan Legion, which was planned to recruit Soviet military prisoners of Turkic descent held in German concentration camps.