title: Tatar Legions
text: # Tatar Legions
  
  The Tatar Legions were auxiliary units of the Waffen-SS formed after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
  
  It included:
  
  * Crimean Tatar Legion, comprising Crimean Tatars, Qarays, Nogais
  * Volga Tatar Legion, which included also Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Mari, Udmurt, Mordwa
  