Posted on 03/17/2015 4:26:22 PM PDT by Salman
The photo is taken during the division training at Neuhammer. The romantic notions that Himmler had about the Bosnian Muslims were probably significant in the division’s genesis. He was personally fascinated by the Islamic faith and believed that Islam created fearless soldiers. He envisioned the creation of a Bosnian SS division constituted solely of Bosnian Muslims in a manner similar to the Bosnian divisions of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Many of these soldiers came from Bosnia, and it was a conscious decision to fight the Communist Partisans and the nationalist Chetniks. The Nazis tried to cater to the Muslim religious needs of their recruits, but the soldiers themselves cared more about protecting their homeland (as promised by the Nazis), than anything else the SS and Himmler told them about racial equality/superiority to the inferior Jews. Riots and desertions were commonplace among the soldiers, often to the Communist Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito, who promised the soldiers amnesty if they joined the Partisans. The soldiers were only interested in protecting their homeland in Bosnia, so any incursions into Croatia or Serbia to help the Nazi allies or war effort there met with consternation among the soldiers, and even more desertions.
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In WWII, the Serbians were our allies. They had it right when they tried to get rid of the Muslims.
This photo could just as easily have been taken yesterday. They haven’t changed a bit.
Some of these dudes got their just deserts when Marshal Tito (Serbian Communist) shot them into a trench in 1945. One of the reasons Serbians do not like Clintonistas and Mooslems!
Its offensive, the way their ass is always in the air. Weird weird weird,,,
Wow, there’s a picture that speaks a thousand words.
And a million lost lives.
The Handschar, spent most of their existence committing atrocities across Yugoslavia.
He was also a personal friend of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the uncle of Yasser Arafat.
Nazis and Muslims are natural allies, of course.
An article about Himmler’s fascination with Islam
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3964
Actually, Tito was a Croat, not a Serb. However, one of his right hand men was a Serb-Alexandre Rankovic.
I've spent quite a deal of time browsing those old photographs.
Thanks for sharing it.
bflr
OK, back up a few decades and educated me.
Hillary Clinton, needing a (*cleansing*) distraction in the ABCNNBCBS press corpse after Bill Clinton's impeachment, drummed up “propaganda” for US (er, NATO) intervention in the middle of the Csenia-Bosian War.
To do this, she emphasized the “Catholic-Nazi-Germanic-ethinic” cleansing of the ??? Muslim Bosian civilians, right?
Same area, same hatred and race-based “traditions” of slaughter and war crimes that these SS Nazi soldiers were brought up with?
(Except I do not see today's White House black-glove of Muslim-friendship/alliance present so much under Hilary's intervention then.)
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