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Photograph of both a member of the Free Arabian Legion and a Cossack Wehrmacht volunteer, c.1941-1943

The Free Arabian Legion was a Nazi German military unit formed from Arab volunteers from the Middle East and North Africa. The unit was first settled in Syria and included several Iraqi expatriates and Syrian Arabs. After the conquest of Syria by the British, Australian and Free-French forces, the unit was moved to Sounion in Greece. There it received more Arab and Muslim troops who were on the soil of Europe at the time, as prisoners of war, or as volunteers. The Nazis planned to use the legion in conquering the Caucasus, rising an Iraq government-in-exile there, and then use the region as a force station and base for a way of conquering Iraq

Photograph of both a member of the Free Arabian Legion and a Cossack Wehrmacht volunteer, c.1941-1943