page_title: Georgian uprising on Texel
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Georgian uprising on Texel / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Georgische soldaten op Texel.
context_page_description: The Georgian uprising on Texel was an insurrection by the 882nd Infantry Battalion Königin Tamara of the Georgian Legion of the German Army stationed on the German occupied Dutch island of Texel. The battalion was made up of 800 Georgians and 400 Germans, with mainly German officers. It was one of the last battles in the European theatre.
context_section_description: The Georgians lie buried in a ceremonial cemetery at the Hogeberg near Oudeschild. The survivors may have feared facing the same fate as most Soviet collaborators: forced repatriation, under the terms of the Yalta Conference, often followed by incarceration and banishment and, for officers, execution. The 228 Georgians who survived by hiding from the German troops in coastal minefields, or who were concealed by Texel farmers, were turned over to Soviet authorities. After arrival at a collection camp in the Soviet Union, 26 Georgians were singled out and banished together with their families and others were sent to Gulag. Those still alive in the mid-1950s were rehabilitated and allowed to return home. Until 1991, the ambassador of the Soviet Union to the Netherlands visited the graves of the Georgians on 4 May every year, and, at least during the latter visits, called the Georgians "Heroes of the Soviet Union". 
  In the late 1960s, the Soviet memorialisation of the Texel rebels culminated in the release of a feature film known as 'Crucified Island'.  It depicted the rebels as being prisoners of war who somehow managed to steal weapons from the Germans.
  On 4 May 2005, Mikheil Saakashvili visited the graves for the first time as the president of independent Georgia.
  The German dead were initially buried in a part of the general cemetery in Den Burg. In 1949 they found their final resting place at Ysselsteyn German war cemetery, Limburg province, the Netherlands. The cemetery is administered by the German War Graves Commission. Den Burg General Cemetery also contains a plot of 167 World War II Commonwealth burials, most of them airmen; 44 of the burials are unidentified.
  A permanent exhibition dedicated to these events can be found "in a corner" of the Aeronautical Museum at Texel International Airport.
  One of the last Georgian survivors of the uprising died in July 2007 and was buried with military honors in Zugdidi, Georgia. There were two Georgian survivors still alive in 2010: Grisha Baindurashvili, who was then 88 years old and lived in Kaspi, a village 40 km west of Tbilisi, and Eugeny Artemidze, who had been one of the main organizers of the rebellion; he died at age 90 on June 22, 2010, on the same day he had gone to war 69 years earlier. Baindurashvili appeared to have still been alive in 2015, when an interview with him was published.
caption: Two wounded Georgian soldiers at Texel in 1945
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