Operation "Sava". After a hard, seven-month training in France and Germany, a bloody mutiny, political-religious brainwashing, march through Syrmia and cleansing of the Bosut Forest – the stirred-up, impatient and armed-to-the-teeth Bosnian SS volunteers finally return home, ready to fight. Upon arriving in Brčko, the new headquarters of the 13th SS Division, the volunteers take over the watch at the Sava Bridge, at the town entrance. (Note: instead of the usual hand grenades, some of the soldiers stuck trench knives in their belts.)
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: Eugen Nonnenmacher, SS Regiment "Kurt Eggers".
Date: March 1944.
Location: Brčko, Yugoslavia.
Original caption: "They are coming back, ready to fight! Immediately upon arriving, a detachment takes over the watch in front of an important bridge at the town entrance."
File source: NIOD / Beeldbank WO2, 3616.
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Operacija "Sava". Posle naporne, sedmomesečne obuke u Francuskoj i Nemačkoj, jedne krvave pobune, političko-verskog ispiranja mozga, marša kroz Srem i čišćenja Bosutskih šuma – nahuškani, nestrpljivi i do zuba naoružani bosanski SS-dobrovoljci konačno se vraćaju kući, za borbu spremni. Po dolasku u Brčko, novo sedište 13. SS-divizije, dobrovoljci preuzimaju stražu kod Savskog mosta, na ulazu u grad. (Napomena: neki od vojnika su, umesto uobičajenih ručnih bombi, za pojas zadenuli rovovske noževe.)
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: Ojgen Nonenmaher, SS-puk "Kurt Egers".
Datum: mart 1944.
Mesto: Brčko, Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: "Vraćaju se, za borbu spremni! Odmah po dolasku, jedan odred preuzima stražu ispred važnog mosta na ulazu u grad."
Izvor fajla: NIOD / Beeldbank WO2, 3616.
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