Soviet Dooms 5 in Crimea Found Guilty of Collaborating With Nazis in War | NY Times - July 13, 1972 |

The defendants were found guilty of having served in a volunteer Tatar battalion in 1942-44 while German forces were in occupation of the Crimean Peninsula, on the Black Sea. The battalion was said to have guarded a concentration camp where at least 1,400 captured Soviet soldiers and guerrillas were put to death.

• Islam and Germany's War in the Soviet Borderlands, 1941-45
• The German Occupation of the Crimea, 1942-44