Operation "Snowstorm". Captured Partisan girls posing to an SS photographer near the village of Duboštica. The girls were captured by members of the 14th Regiment, SS Division "Prinz Eugen", and they were photographed shortly after the burial of three SS men, killed fighting the Partisans on (Catholic) Christmas. The same as their comrades captured on the same occasion (out of frame), the young Partisan girls wear a mixture of civilian and military clothing, without insignia (one has a scarf on her head, and the other some kind of cloth; it is possible that the Germans put the cloth on her head, to mock her, which would also explain her unusually angry facial expression; her companion, on the other hand, seems completely indifferent). The prisoners belonged either to the V Krajina or the XXVII Eastern Bosnian Division, and what did the SS men do with them – having buried their comrades for Christmas – is not known, but can be assumed.
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: Hugo Kemps, SS Regiment "Kurt Eggers".
Date: December 1943.
Location: Duboštica (district of Visoko), Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.
Sources: National Archives, 242-JRP-40-53-30; ibid., RG 242, T313, r. 190, 7449911; "Hans Hanel", Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (Photo restoration: Ivan Ž.)
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Operacija "Mećava". Zarobljene partizanke poziraju esesovskom fotografu kod sela Duboštice. Devojke su zarobili pripadnici 14. puka SS-divizije "Princ Ojgen", a uslikane su neposredno nakon sahrane trojice esesovaca, poginulih na (katolički) Božić u borbama protiv partizana. Kao i njihovi istom prilikom zarobljeni saborci (van kadra), mlade partizanke nose mešavinu civilne i vojne odeće, bez oznaka (jedna na glavi ima maramu, a druga nekakvu krpu; moguće je da su joj krpu na glavu stavili Nemci, podsmeha radi, što bi objasnilo i njen neuobičajeno ljutiti izraz lica; njena drugarica, s druge strane, deluje potpuno ravnodušno). Zarobljenice su pripadale ili V krajiškoj ili XXVII istočnobosanskoj diviziji, a kako su esesovci s njima postupili – sahranivši svoje drugove za Božić – nije poznato, ali se može naslutiti.
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: Hugo Kemps, SS-puk "Kurt Egers".
Datum: decembar 1943.
Mesto: Duboštica (srez Visočki), Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvori: National Archives, 242-JRP-40-53-30; ibid., RG 242, T313, r. 190, 7449911; "Hans Hanel", Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (Foto-restauracija: Ivan Ž.)
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