When Nazi Germany invaded the Caucasus region in 1942, they would have encountered Khazars who practiced Judaism but were not ethnically Jewish. What was the Nazi policy towards them?

by DoritosDewItRight
Lazar_Taxon

No, the Khazars ceased to exist as a distinct people in the Middle Ages, and there's no one today, Jewish or otherwise, who could reasonably be described as an ethnic Khazar. There was, however, a small population of Turkic-speaking Karaites (members of a minoritarian Jewish sect that rejects the rabbinic and talmudic tradition) living in Crimea; the Germans considered them sufficiently distinct that they were mostly able to avoid anti-Jewish measures.