The Establishment of The Soviet Regime In Northern Azerbaijan. Resistance Against The Invaders

achieve recognition the independence of Azerbaijan by Hitler's Germany. Some well-known representatives of the Azerbaijani emigration, including M.E. Rasulzade were invited to Berlin. These expatriates have played a major role in the rescue from death Azerbaijani POWs, whose number exceeded thousand.

Azerbaijani patriotic officer, Abdurrahman Bey Fatalibeyli- Dudanginsky particularly distinguished himself in the creation of national legions. He graduated in 1940 from the Moscow Military Academy and was promoted to the rank of major. During the battles for the Baltic Sea coast, A. Fatalibeyli was captured by the Germans. In his letter to Hitler, in 1941, he proved the necessity of the creation of national legions. He explained the collaboration with Nazi Germany in the letter to the Russian General Bicherahov: “We could not fight for the great Russia, which broke the traditions of our ancestors, enslaved our people, divided Poland with Hitler, seized the independence of the Baltic states and smashed Finland. Therefore, we joined the struggle for the freedom and independence of the Motherland, along with the other peoples, who had sided with the Germans against Bolshevizm.”

Created in 1942, the Azerbaijani military units, fighting on the German side reached to Kuban and the North Caucasus. To award, those Azerbaijani combatants, who distinguished in the battles, the orders of “Azerbaijan Independence” and “Gray Wolf” were also established.

Leader of the Azerbaijani political emigration M.E. Rasulzade conducted lengthy negotiations with all the top-leadership of the Nazi government, for recognition of the independence of Azerbaijan by Germany. Convincing of the futility of these negotiations, Rasulzade, in August of 1943, left Germany. However