and 71 police battalions. At the end of the war in Northern Italy, the North Caucasian combat group joined the Caucasian Unity of the SS troops. The commander of the Standard Army of the SS, a former officer of the White Army Kuchuk Ulagay, joined the regiment as a regiment. In addition to the reinforced 9 field battalions, 1 battalion of the Sonderverband "Bergmann" (Special Unit "Mountaineer") and one combat group of Waffen-SS, the natives of the North Caucasus were part of a separate Sonderkommando Schamil consisting of three groups of forces up to a platoon, three sapper, railway and road-building companies, as well as two serf regiments. According to the researcher Traho R. "The total number of North Caucasian volunteers since the beginning of the war against the USSR and until 1945 amounted to 28-30 thousand people". See also Ostlegionen References Sources Foreign volunteer units of the Wehrmacht Peoples of the Caucasus History of the Caucasus under the Soviet Union Islam in the Caucasus