In September 1943 the soldiers of the newly formed 1st Cossack Cavalry Division learned that their division would not as expected be sent to fight on the Eastern Front, but was going to the Balkans to fight Communist partisans. At the request of the division's commander, General Helmuth von Pannwitz, Krasnov traveled to address the division. Krasnov tried to assuage the wounded feelings of the Cossacks who did not want to go to the Balkans, assuring them that the fight against the Partisans was part of the same struggle against "the international Communist conspiracy" on the Eastern Front, and promised them if they did well in the Balkans that they would ultimately go to the Eastern Front. At a meeting with the Cossack separatist Vasily Glazkov in Berlin in July 1944, Krasnov stated that he did not agree with Glazkov's separatism, but was forced under pressure from Rosenberg to appoint three supporters of Cossackia to important positions in the Cossack Central Office. In November 1944, Krasnov refused the appeal of General Andrei Vlasov to join the latter's Russian Liberation Army. Krasnov disliked Vlasov as a former Red Army general and because as an old man he was unwilling to submit to take orders from a much younger man. At the end of the war, Krasnov and his men voluntarily surrendered to British forces in Austria. All of them were promised upon surrender by Major Davis that they, as White Russian emigres, would not be repatriated to the Soviets.