Edited sentence: " The Armenian Legion was put under the command of Drastamat Kanayan and was made up of a number of committed Armenian political activists and a larger number of Armenian POWs (prisoners of war) taken by the Germans in their sweep eastwards.Aid was given in propaganda and intelligence in which the Armenian organizations were active.Early on, the total number of Armenian volunteers within the German Wehrmacht was approximately 8,000.Eventually, more than 30,000 Armenians troops were fighting in the Nazi military.In 1941, the Armenian volunteers formed the "812th Armenian Battalion" within the German Wehrmacht and, as their numbers grew, they eventually became known as the "Armenian Legion.In addition to the veterans of Armenian militia, some who escaped to the United States of America following the end of the Ottoman Empire and the massacres came back to Europe to form the Armenian Legion.The declaration made by Alfred Rosenberg of the Armenians being an Indo-European people came simultaneously with the conscription of the Armenians in Turkey, the Soviet Union and Western Europe, to destroy the stability of Turkey and the Soviet Union.The expected prize was an Armenian state, in an expected new order in a new world created by the Nazi-Germany.The representatives of the Armenian Dashnaks within Europe and USA decided to ally themselves with the German war effort and fight the Soviet Union with hopes of liberating the Armenian Republic from under Bolshevik rule.The vision of an Armenian state in Anatolia was abandoned after the DRA for a period of time until, it was raised again during the WWII.These troops fought in Crimea, North Caucasus, served as police units for internal security duties in the occupied territories, and later on in Western Europe against the Allies