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Muslim members of the Waffen-SS 13th division at prayer during their training in Germany, 1943
Rare Historical Photos and the Stories Behind Them ^ | October 4, 2014 | RHP

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bosnia; bosnianss; chetniks; croatia; europeanunion; history; iran; islam; israel; josipbroztito; nato; serbia; waronterror; ww2; wwii
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To: dfwgator

These people are F**king insane.

And yet, we in the west discount them as some sort of novelty.


21 posted on 03/17/2015 8:09:59 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Salman

For all the info on the NAZI’s and Mooselims check out tellthechildrenthetruth.com


22 posted on 03/17/2015 9:02:55 PM PDT by stockpirate (A corrupt government is the real enemy of the people.)
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