 However, owing to a shortage of officers with the necessary Russian language skills, the Wehrmacht was forced to relax its policy against accepting emigre officers, and a number of Cossack emigre officers living in Yugoslavia, France, Germany and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (modern Czech Republic) were recruited into the division.Other officers were the sons of Cossack emigres who had served in the armies of France, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria before the war.A disproportionate number of the German officers were cavalrymen, and of these officers Austrians were over-represented as it as felt that Austrians were more "tactful" in dealing with Slavs rather than the Prussians.