Cossack cemetery of valley Peggetz (Lienz)

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By the time the war ended, there were up to 110 thousand Cossacks in Germany, Austria, partly in France, Italy, and Czechoslovakia.

On May 28, 1945, about 2 thousand people led by atamans Krasnov and Shkuro.
under the pretext of holding a “conference” at the invitation of the British occupation authorities, they arrived in the Austrian Spital, where they were handed over by the British to representatives of the USSR.

75-year-old Krasnov was mainly engaged in propaganda, and 57-year-old Shkuro in 1944, by a special decree of Himmler, he was appointed head of the Cossack Troops Reserve at the SS General Staff and trained Cossack cavalrymen.

On June 1, 1945, on the territory of Austria in the cities of Lienz and Judenburg, the British extradited to the USSR Cossacks who fought in the Great Patriotic War on the side of Nazi Germany and their families.

On June 1, 1945, in the Cossack camps of Lienz, the British attempted to begin loading internees. The attempt at resistance was suppressed, and there were casualties on the part of the internees.

Krasnov, Shkuro, Sultan Kelec Giray, Helmut von Pannwitz and other generals were taken to Moscow on June 4.

The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR found von Pannwitz and five generals - leaders of the Cossack camp P. Krasnov, A. Shkuro, Sultan Kelech Giray, S. Krasnov and T. Domanov guilty and sentenced them to death by hanging, which took place on January 16, 1947.