Formation of the SS Armoured Grenadier Division "Nordland". A young member of the division's reconnaissance battalion, possibly a Swede, checks papers of a Croatian villager at an improvised barrier next to his unit's training area, in the vicinity of Sisak. This slightly confused-looking young man probably speaks Croatian as well as the villager speaks Swedish. (The 3rd company of the "Nordland" Division's reconnaissance battalion, to which the pictured guard most likely belonged, was unofficially known as the "Swedish Company", due to a large number of Swedish volunteers.)
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: Kramer, SS War Correspondent Battalion.
Date: September/October 1943.
Location: unknown (district of Sisak), Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.
Sources: National Archives, 242-JRP-46-8-11; Wilhelm Tieke, Tragödie um die Treue – Aufstellung, Kampf und Untergang des III. (germanischen) SS-Panzerkorps, Gummersbach, 2003, p. 15; Erik Wallin, Thorolf Hillblad (ed.), Twilight of the Gods – A Swedish Volunteer in the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" on the Eastern Front, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2009, p. 134. (Photo restoration: Ivan Ž.)
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Formiranje Oklopnogrenadirske SS-divizije "Nordland". Mladi pripadnik izviđačkog bataljona divizije, moguće Šveđanin, proverava isprave jednom hrvatskom seljaku na improvizovanoj rampi pored prostora za obuku svoje jedinice, u okolini Siska. Ovaj mladić pomalo zbunjenog izgleda verovatno poznaje hrvatski jezik koliko i seljak zna švedski. (Treća četa izviđačkog bataljona divizije "Nordland", kojoj je stražar na slici najverovatnije pripadao, nezvanično je bila poznata kao "Švedska četa", zbog velikog broja švedskih dobrovoljaca.)
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: Kramer, Ratnodopisnički bataljon SS-a.
Datum: septembar/oktobar 1943.
Mesto: nepoznato (srez Sisački), Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvori: National Archives, 242-JRP-46-8-11; Wilhelm Tieke, Tragödie um die Treue – Aufstellung, Kampf und Untergang des III. (germanischen) SS-Panzerkorps, Gummersbach, 2003, str. 15; Erik Wallin, Thorolf Hillblad (prir.), Twilight of the Gods – A Swedish Volunteer in the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" on the Eastern Front, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2009, str. 134. (Foto-restauracija: Ivan Ž.)
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