So then, the Muslims in these photos with the fez were just "Honorary Croat Ustase of the Muslim Faith"?
WWII Catholic Croatia handing out the government-issued fez to these Muslims and Pavelic even donning one himself to show fascist-lunatic-killer solidarity?
Yeah, I can imagine why Pavelic would be so sorry to lose these Honorary Croat Muslims to their own SS Division (sponsored by the Mufti of Jerusalem) after he had already trained them as efficient killers of Serbs and Jews for his own German-backed government.
Yeah, I can imagine why Pavelic would be so sorry to lose these Honorary Croat Muslims to their own SS Division (sponsored by the Mufti of Jerusalem) after he had already trained them as efficient killers of Serbs and Jews for his own German-backed government.
I'm gonna repeat myself for the last time since you seem intent on remaining ignorant:
The Handzar was an SS unit first proposed by Heinrich Himmler. NDH opposed the creation of the Handzar since Bosnian Imams sought to use this division as a nucleus of a force in which to take Bosnia out of NDH and put it under direct German rule. Pavelic protested and sent his point man Vrancic to meet with Hitler. Hitler agreed to some of Pavelic's demands and allowed some non-Muslims into the unit. On training in Villefranche in the south of France, the non-Muslims of the unit rebelled in what is known as the "revolte de la Croates".
The Handzar were under the German army, not the Croatian army. When they returned to Eastern Bosnia, they fought together with Serbian Chetniks in anti-Partisan sweeps in northeastern Bosnia.
You can read all about the Handzar in this book and cure your brain of its ignorance: