A mounted MP patrol of the 13th SS Division searching a cart on the outskirts of Brčko – one of SS propaganda photos taken after the division's return (from training abroad) to Bosnia, whose goal was to show the SS volunteers restoring order in their homeland, protecting it from Partisan "gangs". (A few months earlier, during a visit to the division in Germany, Reichsführer-SS Himmler stated: "I am convinced – and I believe that history will prove me right – that only this division can restore order in the region." However, history proved him wrong; the SS division was smashed within a year, and the order in its homeland was restored by the Partisans.)
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: Schattinger, SS Regiment "Kurt Eggers".
Date: April 1944.
Location: Brčko, Yugoslavia.
Original caption: "Mounted patrol secures the town exits. A farm wagon, loaded with local products, is stopped and checked. Since the farmer can identify himself and there is nothing to complain about his cargo, he can continue on his way."
Sources: NIOD, via Beeldbank WO2, 3600; George Lepre, Himmler's Bosnian Division – The Waffen-SS Handschar Division 1943–1945, Schiffer Military History, Atglen, 1997, p. 125; Schattinger, "Der Schleier lüftet sich", Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden, Amsterdam, 08.06.1944, vol. V, no 4, p. 3. (Photo restoration: Ivan Ž.)
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Konjička patrola vojne policije 13. SS-divizije pretresa zaprežna kola na periferiji Brčkog – jedna od propagandnih fotografija SS-a snimljenih po povratku divizije (sa obuke u inostranstvu) u Bosnu, čiji je cilj bio da prikažu kako SS-dobrovoljci zavode red u svojoj domovini, štiteći je od partizanskih "bandi". (Nekoliko meseci ranije, rajhsfirer SS-a Himler je prilikom posete diviziji u Nemačkoj izjavio: "Ubeđen sam – i verujem da će istorija pokazati da sam bio u pravu – da samo ova divizija može uspostaviti red na tom području." Međutim, istorija je pokazala suprotno; SS-divizija je razbijena u roku od godinu dana, a red u njenoj domovini uspostavili su partizani.)
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: Šatinger, SS-puk "Kurt Egers".
Datum: april 1944.
Mesto: Brčko, Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: "Konjička patrola osigurava izlaze iz grada. Jedna seoska kola, natovarena domaćim proizvodima, zaustavljena su i pregledana. Pošto seljak ima legitimaciju, a za tovar mu se nema šta prigovoriti, on može produžiti svojim putem."
Izvori: NIOD, via Beeldbank WO2, 3600; George Lepre, Himmler's Bosnian Division – The Waffen-SS Handschar Division 1943–1945, Schiffer Military History, Atglen, 1997, str. 125; Schattinger, "Der Schleier lüftet sich", Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden, Amsterdam, 08.06.1944, god. V, br. 4, str. 3. (Foto-restauracija: Ivan Ž.)
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