Semyon Krasnov

Semyon Nikolayevich Krasnov (Russian: Семён Николаевич Краснов; was a Russian Don Cossack military commander and later a prominent Cossack staff officer who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. An "Old émigré" who permanently fled Russia following the defeat of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Civil War, he returned to military activity during World War II, serving as the Chief of Staff of the Main Administration of Cossack Forces at the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. Captured by British forces in 1945, he was forcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union and subsequently tried in Moscow for high treason and executed.