- 13th Waffen-SS Handschar - all muslim Bosnian division (21,000 men)
- 21st Waffen-SS Skanderbeg - muslim Kosovar and ethnic Albanian division (9,000 men, majority muslim)
- 23rd Waffen-SS Kama - Croat and Bosnian muslim division (3,793 men according to Ailsby, majority muslim)
- Waffengruppe "Krim" - Chechen muslim unit listed in Klietmann (number unknown)
- Osttürkischer Waffen-Verband - east european and turkish muslim unit listed in Williamson(number unknown)
- Deutsche Arabisches Infantry Battalion No. 845 - colonial unit consisting of Algerian, Syrian, Saudi, Palestinian, and Iraqi muslim volunteers formed in April 1942 (6,300 according to Ailsby)
- Phalange Africana - north African arab militia unit that assisted Rommel (400 according to Ailsby)
- Deutsche Arabische Lehrarbteillung - Arab unit formed from Phalange Africana, Inf. Bat. 845, and other Arab-muslim units in 1943. Fought British near the Gulf of Hammamet.
- Freiwilligen-Stamm Regiment 1 - Georgian, Turk, and Central asian regiment (number and percent muslim unknown)
- Freiwilligen-Stamm Regiment 1 - Armenian and Azerbaijani regiment (number and percent muslim unknown)
- 162nd Infantry "Turkoman Division" - muslim turkistani unit listed in Ailsby (number unknown)
- Osttürkischer Waffen-Verband der SS - Turkish and Arab unit (number unknown). Insignia:
950th Infantry Regiment "Indian" - Indian, Pakastani, and Central Asian unit, in Ailsby (3,000 men total - 516 sikh, 1,600 muslim, and 900 hindu)
- Iraqi Army of Rashid Ali al-Kilani - Nazi-backed muslim Iraqi insurgency against the British-backed government of Iraq in 1941. The British took 10,000 casualties from Kilani's troops in suppressing the uprising, (total number who served unknown)
Heinrich Himmler's Order on the privileges of muslim troops:
All Moslem members of the Waffen-SS and police are to be afforded the undeniable right of their religious demands never to touch pork, pork sausages nor to drink alcohol. In all cases, a diet of equal value will be assured to them.I hold all commanders, company commanders and other SS officers, especially those officers and NCOs involved with economic administration, responsible for the most scrupulous and loyal respect for this privilege especially granted to the Moslems.
They have answered the call of the Moslem chiefs and have come to us out of hatred for the common Jewish-Anglo-Bolshevik enemy and through respect and fidelity for he who they respect above all, the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler.
I do not wish that through the folly and narrowness of mind of an isolated person, a single one of the tens of thousands of these brave volunteers and their families should suffer from ill humor and feel deprived of the rights which have been granted to them. The meddling frugality of administration - which there is in so many cases - can only do more harm than good.
I therefore command that every breach of my order shall be taken with neither compromise nor consideration, punished and reported to me.
Moreover, I forbid the jokes and facetious remarks about the Moslem volunteers which are so much enjoyed in groups of comrades. There will no longer be the least discussion about the special rights afforded to the Moslems in these circles.
Heil Hitler!
H. Himmler
August 6, 1943
Ping to #186 for a list of Hitler's muslim units.
Crescent dagger pin given to Nazis from the caucases and the 'stan countries.
Crescent dagger pin given to Nazis from the caucases and the 'stan countries.
It sounds like the average Nazi officer was just as much an anti-Muslim bigot as you would expect from the army of a racist dictatorship hell-bent to conquer the world and subjugate the "undesirable" people.
Hmm. Come to think of it, the average Nazi officer sounds like the average member of the Nuke Mecca Crowd.