Formation of the Croatian SS Division. In July 1943, a training course was held in Potsdam for imams (Muslim religious leaders) of the Croatian SS Division (later named "Handschar"). The course lasted three weeks and included lessons on the organisation of the Waffen-SS, the history of nationalism and the German language. The imams also took this opportunity to visit the summer palace of Frederick the Great, called "Sanssouci" (No Worries), in the park of the same name. Pictured in the foreground are SS-Obersturmführer Heinrich Gaese (tallest) and SS-Sturmbannführer Abdulah Muhasilović (with moustache), division imam. (A year later, Muhasilović incited a mutiny and deserted with another 100 people and weapons; unlike Muhasilović, Heinrich Gaese survived the war, and died in 1995.)
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: unknown.
Date: July 1943.
Date: July 1943.
Location: Potsdam, Germany.
Original caption: unknown.
File source: George Lepre, "Himmler's Bosnian Division" (p. 73).
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Formiranje Hrvatske SS-divizije. Jula 1943. godine, u Potsdamu je održan kurs obuke za imame (muslimanske verske vođe) Hrvatske SS-divizije (kasnije nazvane "Handžar"). Kurs je trajao tri nedelje i sadržao je lekcije iz organizacije SS-trupa, istorije nacionalizma i nemačkog jezika. Imami su ovom prilikom posetili i letnju palatu Fridriha Velikog, zvanu "Sansusi" (Bez brige), u istoimenom parku. U prvom planu na slici stoje SS-oberšturmfirer Hajnrih Geze (najviši) i SS-šturmbanfirer Abdulah Muhasilović (sa brčićima), imam divizije. (Godinu dana kasnije, Muhasilović je izazvao pobunu i dezertirao sa još 100 ljudi i naoružanjem; za razliku od Muhasilovića, Hajnrih Geze je rat preživeo, i umro 1995. godine.)
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: nepoznat.
Datum: jul 1943.
Datum: jul 1943.
Mesto: Potsdam, Nemačka.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvor fajla: George Lepre, "Himmler's Bosnian Division" (str. 73).
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