SS Polizei-Selbstschutz-Regiment Sandschak

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SS Polizei-Selbstschutz-Regiment Sandschak
Active1943 — 1944
Size5,000[1]
Nickname(s)
  • Krempler's Legion/Regiment/Militia[2]
  • "Moslem Legion"[1]
EngagementsWorld War II in Yugoslavia
Commanders
Founded and effectively controlled
SS and Police Leader
August Meyszner

SS-Polizei Selbstschutz Regiment Sandschak (from

Axis occupied Yugoslavia. He went to the Sandžak region (named after the Ottoman administrative unit "Sanjak") in October and took over the local volunteer militia of around 5,000 anti-communist, anti-Serb Muslim men headquartered in Sjenica.[1]

The SS-police "self-defence"

SS and Police Leader August Meyszner who was responsible only to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler regarding the police actions.[9]

All newly recruited members of this police were sent for two-months military training to

Vučitrn. They were trained by Volksdeutsche. Besides military training they learned German language, first military commands and later to speak German. They sang German March songs while they marched through populated places.[10]

In August 1944 took part in operation

Maks Luburić. Pačariz was promoted to the rank of Ustaše Colonel.[12]

In 1945 Pačariz was captured near Banja Luka, put on trial and found guilty for massacres of civilians. He was executed as a war criminal.[13]

Annotations

  • Name:
    • Selbstschutz-Regiment "Sandschak".[14]
    • "Police Self-Defense Regiment Sandjak" (Polizei-Selbstschutz-Regiment Sandschak).[12][15]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-85532-473-2
    . In Sanjak, the border region between South- West Serbia and Northern Montenegro, the Italians formed a 3,000-strong anti-Partisan Moslem Militia, under Hoxha Patchariz, reformed in early 1944 as the Moslem Legion, under SS-Major Karl von Krempler.
  2. ^ Muñoz 2001, p. 294.
  3. ^ Colić, Mladenko (1988). Pregled operacija na jugoslovenskom ratištu 1941-1945. Vojnoistorijski Institut. p. 224.
  4. ISBN 978-0-7656-3189-3
    . A Muslim unit, the Legija Kempler, operated in the Sandžak region (in Serbia).
  5. ^ Glišić, Venceslav (1970). Teror i zločini nacističke Nemačke u Srbiji 1941-1944. Rad. p. 215. Легију „Кремплер", састављени од три батаљона албанских квислиншких трупа и муслиманске фашистичке милиције у Санџаку.
  6. ^ Muñoz 2001, p. 293.
  7. ^ "The Moslem Militia and Legion of the Sandjak" in Axis Europa Magazine, Vol. II/III (No. 9), July–August–September 1996, pp.3-14.
  8. ^ Simpozijum seoski dani Sretena Vukosavljevića. Opštinska zajednica obrazovanja. 1978. p. 160. Немци су тада на подручју Сјенице имали ... и око 2000 СС добровољачка легија Кремплер
  9. ISBN 978-0-8047-7924-1
    .
  10. ISBN 9788674030400
    .
  11. ^ Kumm 2007, p. 241.
  12. ^ a b Muñoz 2001, p. 295.
  13. ^ Vojnoistorijski institut (Belgrade, Serbia) (1958). Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o narodnooslobodilačkom ratu naroda Jugoslavija. Vojnoistorijski institut. p. 32.
  14. ^ Kurt Mehner (1995). Die Waffen-SS und Polizei, 1939-1945: Führung und Truppe. Militair-Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. pp. 325, 381.
  15. ISBN 978-83-240-2150-5
    .

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