Members of the 7th SS Prinz Eugen division parade through the streets of Mostar and are inspected by a Croatian minister as well as Homeguard commanders and their own high ranking officers

A German soldiers from the 7th Prinz Eugen division escort Croatian civilians out of a wooden building. The original Waffen-SS caption reads, "Aus den Waeldern zurueckkehrende Bevoelkerung wird von deutschen Soldaten betreut." (Tranlsated, "German soldiers look after the population, who return from the forests.")

A group of Croatian protesters (workers, students and political activists) in Berlin after the coup d'état in Belgrade, which was conducted by general Dušan Simović, the Serb Army and protestors with the help of the allies on March 27, 1941. After this event, this protest occurred, and Branko Benzon, a confidant for the Ustaša Movement in Germany, sent a request to the German government, asking for the attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and for help for the joint creation of the Independent State of Croatia.

Captain Prišlin and Croatian legionaries bury their fellow artillerymen who fell during the fighting near the village of Ruskaja, Lieutenant Ostojić was commander of the platoon in which four out of five legionaries were killed, and he was the only legionary who miraculously escaped unharmed from the attack.

The last invitation to the meeting of the German military association Handschar (Handžar), credit for this find: NDH History, amazing archive and a channel friendly to ours make sure to check it out

Members of the 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment fetch the ammunition from a destroyed Matilda II used by the Soviet forces on the Eastern front

45 years ago Tito made his most important contribution to Croatdom, he died

German and NDH officials In Zemun Banners of the NDH and a portrait of the Poglavnik Is seen as well as the flags of the Third Reich and NDH side by side, October 1941

Members of the 369th Croatian Reinforced Infantry Regiment take a group picture with three Zaporozhian Free Cossack Auxiliaries a Hiwi volunteer and two local women

Today many celebrate something they call a "Victory" day, but what kind of victory? The victory of Marxist Leninism that sought out to destroy everything human and that tried to erase nationalites and cultures as a whole, fueled by the hebrew the red hordes plundered their way to European capitals where they were met by cheers and celebration of the people the same people that cheered them would regret ever doing so In the span of decades.

Photograph: The depressing scenes from the "liberation" of Zagreb, a thin line of Communist Partisans march through the square without a single person in sight.

In 1920, Beqir Vokshi represented the Committee in an assembly held at Trieste organized by the Italian scholar and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio, well known for his activism and support for Italian, Croat, and Albanian irredentist groupings. In this meeting, D'Annunzio promised armament to the Albanians of Kosovo.¹ The Committee collaborated with other nationalist movements that had risen inside Yugoslavia in response to Serbian hegemony. Mainly through Zija Dibra, its leaders would get in contact and meet with Stjepan Radić, leader of Croatian People's Peasant Party, Bulgarian VMRO revolutionaries Todor Aleksandrov and Petar Chaulev, and Montenegrin Marko Raspopović who had settled in Shkoder.²

Finzi's plan

In late November 1918, General Pietro Badoglio received a plan for propaganda activities designed to hinder the consolidation of Yugoslavia. The plan was devised by Lieutenant Colonel Cesare Pettorelli Lalatta Finzi , the chief of the Information Office in the Occupied Territories in Trieste. Finzi's plan envisaged stoking anti-Serbian sentiment in Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Vardar Macedonia to promote separatist ideas. The plan provided for a substantial budget and 200 agents. Badoglio submitted the plan for approval, which Foreign Minister Sydney Sonnino, Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and chief of staff Marshal Armando Diaz granted on 9 December. Finzi founded a secret unit in Budapest to establish and maintain contacts with and support opponents of Yugoslavia. Finzi first came into contact with Stjepan Radić, the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party. Sonnino planned to bring Radić to the Paris Peace Conference to advocate Croatian interests, but Yugoslav authorities arrested the entire HSS leadership.³ The Croatian Committee drew inspiration from D’Annunzio’s actions and planned to replicate the flight over Vienna in Zagreb. It also maintained contacts with the former emperor, Charles I of Austria who was in Switzerland at the time, and contacts established with a Albanian Anti Yugoslav forces. The latter also received Italian aid in opposition to the Yugoslav state, as did the Montenegrin pro-independence Greens and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).⁴

1 - Ekrem Vlora (1973). Lebenserinnerungen: 1912 bis 1925 [Memoirs: 1912-1925]. Walter de Gruyter. p. 154.
2 - Ivo Banac (1988), The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, Cornell University Press, p. 306
3 - Adriano, Pino; Cingolani, Giorgio (2018). Nationalism and Terror: Ante Pavelić and Ustasha Terrorism from Fascism to the Cold War p. 19
4 - Newman, John Paul (2015). Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903–1945 p.134

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Members of the 369th Croatian Reinforced Infantry Regiment pose for a group photo

Soldiers of the 12th tank division are greeted by Croatian inhabitants as they drive through a town.

A German Heer war correspondent photographs a interesting and intriguing announcement on the window of a administrative building In Axis occupied Serbia that reads as follows:

Serbs!
German soldiers have lost their lives in a vile and treacherous attack. German patience has run out. As atonement, 100 Serbs from all walks of life have been shot. In the future, for every German soldier injured in a Serbian attack, another 100 Serbs will be ruthlessly shot.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Army

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The removal of the Serb coat of arms from Adrian helmets, a Croatian Homeguard waits patiently to be handed his helmet

Croatian Colonel Adolf Sabljak (left) and German Oberst Klaus Uebe (right), chief of staff from VIII Fliegerkorps visiting the Croatian part of the German frontline opposite Soviet held Northern Industrial Stalingrad on Height 107.5.

They are watching the bombardment preceding the offensive which was supposed to take the industrial centre but which would eventually grind to a firm halt a month later.

Date: 14 October 1942.

Members of the 369th Croatian Reinforced Infantry Regiment lounging on a trench In the Eastern front

Sailors of the Croatian Naval operating a anti aircraft gun on the Eastern front.