[5][4] In early 1942, Dawletschin was transferred to another camp, Wuhlheide, where Soviet collaborators were trained to contribute to the German war effort.
He always denied participation in the Volga Tatar legion raised by Germany, largely from the population of prisoners of war released for this purpose.
However, according to the research of historian Sebastian Cwiklinski, Dawletschin was one of the founders of the legion's newspaper, Idel-Ural, and worked in the Tatar radio run by the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
[5][4] After the war, he avoided repatriation to the Soviet Union due to illness[5] and remained in Germany until his death in 1983.
[4] He married Irma Dawletschin, who co-edited a German–Tatar dictionary with him,[7] and their daughter is the Middle East historian Camilla Dawletschin-Linder.