Betraying the Lienz Cossacks - Operation Keelhaul 1945

In 1945, Britain deported over 50,000 Cossacks to the Soviet Union, these men having served the German Army. This was in spite of agreeing not to do this. The Cossacks at Lienz, Austria resisted, but the British Army used violence to force them onto trains to the Soviet sector and an uncertain future. Operation Keelhaul has become a notorious British crime.

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Sources:
'Operation Keelhaul' by Julius Epstein, (Devin-Adair Company: 1973)
'The Last Secret' by Nicholas Bethell, (Andre Deutsch Limited: 1974)
Credits: US National Archives; Library of Congress; Europas Wanderdorfer; Bundesarchiv