The Eurasian Triangle. Russia, the Caucasus and Japan, 1904-1945

174 Ë War and Dénouement that date and rmly and consistently denied knowledge of the matters described in Himmler’s notes, attr ...

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and World War II Ë 175 agent.²⁶It is also possible that an Azerbaijani agent used by Japan in Paris ...

176 Ë War and Dénouement Fig. 7.1.The Caucasus on the eve of World War II. Bammat and the Caucasus group found their own reasons ...

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and World War II Ë 177 It was probably for this reason that in November or December 1939, Shalva Ber ...

178 Ë War and Dénouement would ght with the same vigor as before and with the same support as before. (Clearly the reference to ...

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and World War II Ë 179 was suspected of providing nancial support to Bammat and the Caucasus group ...

180 Ë War and Dénouement Fig. 7.2.Mikheil Kedia in the 1930s, France. liberate the peoples of the Caucasus.” The group, Berishvi ...

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and World War II Ë 181 Moscow suspected that, while supporting Bammat and other Caucasian rightist g ...

182 Ë War and Dénouement less sincere in this matter. Berlin did invite Moscow to join the three countries, and in November 1940 ...

The Expansion of War Ë 183 decision had its rationale: compared with the south, the Soviet Far East appeared too barren to secur ...

184 Ë War and Dénouement of military service age dodged the military draft or deserted the army. (Of 80,000 or so men who should ...

The Expansion of War Ë 185 There, popular expectations of Japan’s entry into war against the Soviet Union per- sisted, although ...

186 Ë War and Dénouement groups of Georgian émigrés headed by David Erkomaishvili crossed the Georgian bor- der, reached Batumi, ...

The Expansion of War Ë 187 Prince Shalva Amiredzhibi, Mikheil Tsereteli, General Leo Kereselidze, Irakli Bagra- tioni, Zurab Ava ...

188 Ë War and Dénouement Others continued working with the Germans, however, because Germany ap- peared to them the only hope fo ...

The Expansion of War Ë 189 Fig. 7.3.Fighters of the Caucasian special military unitSonderverband Bergmannin a military posi- tio ...

190 Ë War and Dénouement ter Germany’s inevitable loss. Among them, Mikheil Kedia and other émigré leaders needed to protect the ...

The Expansion of War Ë 191 In all these events, Japan appeared to remain marginal owing to the neutrality pact concluded with Mo ...

192 Ë War and Dénouement Fig. 7.4.Haidar Bammat and Alikhan Kantemir, behind whom stands a portrait of Shigeki Usui, Lau- sanne, ...

Dénouement Ë 193 7.5 Dénouement The fate of the Soviet Caucasus was sealed, for the time being, by the triumph of the Soviet Uni ...