The commander of the 1st Cossack Division, Major General Helmuth von Pannwitz, examines, with a stick, a dead Partisan (a member of either the XII Slavonian Division or the Eastern Group of Detachments), killed in the vicinity of Đakovo (Slavonia). How the Cossacks behaved in Slavonia was well described in a report by the local Partisan corps headquarters, written shortly after the division transferred (from Syrmia) to this region: "Pillaging in Syrmia and around Đakovo and Brod were the so-called Cherkessian units. These are, in fact, the Germans and the Ustashas, and there are also former Red Army soldiers in these units. With their savagery, raping, slaughter and torching, they especially distinguished themselves in Syrmia, where, in one place alone, they hanged 23 Serbs and three Croats, while a large number of people were taken and sent to concentration camps. The fighting spirit of these units is very weak. The particular indecisiveness was noticed among the former Red Army soldiers. So far, 40 of them have switched to our side, with three German light machine guns, they have formed a platoon and are fighting the bandits under the command of one of their officers, and so far they have proven to be quite good. They were sent a leaflet in Russian and Turkish languages, as a call to former Red Army soldiers. In one place, the Germans hanged 14 of them and then told everyone else that the Partisans did it."
Text: Ivan Ž. / Radojica Nenezić.
Photographer: unknown, 693rd Propaganda Company.
Date: November 1943.
Location: unknown (district of Đakovo), Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.
File source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-203-1698-10.
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Komandant 1. kozačke divizije, general-major Helmut fon Panvic, ispituje štapom leš jednog partizana (pripadnika ili XII slavonske divizije ili Istočne grupe odreda), poginulog u okolini Đakova (Slavonija). Kakvo je bilo ponašanje kozaka u Slavoniji dobro opisuje i izveštaj štaba lokalnog partizanskog korpusa, napisan nedugo po prelasku divizije (iz Srema) u ovu oblast: "Po Sremu i oko Đakova i Broda haračile su tzv. čerkeske jedinice. U stvari, to su Nijemci i ustaše, a u tim jedinicama nalaze se i bivši crvenoarmejci. Svojim divljaštvima, silovanjem, klanjem i paljenjem, naročito su se istakli u Sremu, gdje su samo u jednom mjestu objesili 23 Srbina i tri Hrvata, dok su veliki broj naroda pokupili i otjerali u koncentracione logore. Borbenost tih jedinica je vrlo slaba. Naročita kolebljivost opaža se kod bivših crvenoarmejaca. Do sada ih je na našu stranu prešlo 40, sa tri laka njemačka mitraljeza, koji su obrazovali vod i pod komandom jednog svog oficira bore se protiv bandita, i do sada su se pokazali vrlo dobri. Upućen im je jedan letak na ruskom i turskom jeziku, kao poziv bivšim crvenoarmejcima. Nijemci su na jednom mjestu objesili četrnaestoricu, a ostalima su pričali kako su to učinili partizani."
Tekst: Ivan Ž. / Radojica Nenezić.
Fotograf: nepoznat, 693. propagandna četa.
Datum: novembar 1943.
Mesto: nepoznato (srez Đakovački), Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvor fajla: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-203-1698-10.
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