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To: Nathan Zachary

SO I guess he didn't actually "command" the division, but rather set it up.
Still This particular piece tells that he (his creation) slaughtered 90% of the Bosnian Jewery. And as mentioned before, the division was brutal towards the Serbs.


17 posted on 02/14/2005 8:37:22 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
Himmler was fascinated by the concept of Jihad, and intended the SS Handzar to be entirely Muslim staffed, but was forced to compromise due to military and diplomatic pressures.

The units were staffed with German officers and NCOs, and the rank and file were partially added with Roman Catholics since the Croatian Leader Ante Pavelic felt that a wholly Muslim unit would seek to place itself as a military source of autonomy for Bosnia, and to secede from Croatia.

Also, the SS Handzar rebelled against the Germans in the small town of Villefranche in Southern France, during training.

19 posted on 02/14/2005 8:43:08 AM PST by Diocletian
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[url=http://www.imageshack.us][img=http://img212.exs.cx/img212/2800/mufti.jpg][/url]

A picture taken in 1943 of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini reviewing Bosnian-Muslim troops - a unit of the "Hanjar (Saber) Division" of the Waffen SS which he personally recruited for Hitler.


20 posted on 02/14/2005 8:47:53 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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