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"Himmler was their Defender!"
How a Bosnian
Journal Celebrated the Nazi SS Past
by Petar Makara and Jared Israel
[Posted 9 January
2002]
The photos below were published in the weekly magazine, Svijet, or World, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1997.
The photos were taken during World War II, but they provide a glimpse of the truth about what really happened during the recent Bosnia war, and what is happening today. The truth about Bosnia has immediate bearing on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, that is, of the Serbian people and of the policy of national independence and cohesion, which Serbian leaders and ordinary people fought for. Moreover, the issue of what *really* happened in Bosnia is crucial to understanding the role of aggressive Islam in all parts of the world, and of those who sponsor it.
During the Bosnian war we were constantly told by the media that
the Serbs were racists who persecuted Muslims and fought against the supposedly
moderate Bosnian Muslim government of Alijah Izetbegovic. In a
soon-to-be-published article we will show that every part of this media story
was a fabrication. The article will be called, "Wolves in Sheeps' Clothing: The
Fictionalization of the Bosnian War." Citizens in the NATO countries believed
the media fiction about Bosnia because it was all they heard and saw, or thought
they saw. And seeing is believing.
We were told Mr. Izetbegovic was a
great moderate, and the Sarajevo weekly magazine, Svijet, supported Mr.
Izetbegovic. So isn't it curious that Svijet's pictures and captions, scanned
and posted below, fondly remember a World War II Nazi SS Division made up
entirely of Islamic Fundamentalists from Bosnia?
This SS division was called Handzhar, which means Scimitar. The US-backed Bosnian leader, Mr. Izetbegovic, was enamored of Handzhar. He even set up an army division, commanded by Islamic terrorists from Albania, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Arab countries, and called it Handzar. That is discussed in our forthcoming article, "Wolves in Sheeps' Clothing." According to a recent Dutch report, the US sponsored the Islamic terror specialists who traveled to Bosnia to train and indoctrinate Izetbegovic's troops. (1) There are many rocks in Bosnia, and when one turns them over one finds ugly things hiding underneath.
Svijet's Handzhar nostalgia articles were published over the course of five consecutive weeks: October 26th, and November 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd, in 1997. We got hold of three: November 2nd, 16th and 23rd.
The captions have been translated verbatim. In addition we wrote some explanatory notes which appear in red.
We would like to thank the linguist and culture historian, Peter Maher (2), for kindly checking the translations and providing information for the notes. After we finished laying out this page, Prof. Maher pointed out that we hadn't explained the significance of the fez, the hat which was part of the Handzhar uniform. The fez was widely worn in the Ottoman Empire and symbolized both Muslim fanaticism and Ottoman power, under which Bosnian Muslims ruled over Orthodox Christian Serbs and Jews. These Christians and Jews were what is known under Muslim religious law as dhimmi people; their inferior status was legally sanctified. By setting up a Division of Muslim troops wearing the fez the Nazis were appealing to Islamic fanaticism, and promising a return to the Ottoman spirit. (To show how seriously Himmler and Hitler took their alliance with Islamic fanatics, one of the captions makes a special point that even the Handzhar division's commanding officer was "required" to wear the fez.)
Regarding the Handzhar division, the "Encyclopedia of the Holocaust" writes:
"These Muslim volunteer units, called Hanjar (sword), were put in Waffen-SS units, fought Yugoslav partisans in Bosnia, and carried out police and security duties in Hungary. They participated in the massacre of civilians in Bosnia and volunteered to join in the hunt for Jews in Croatia..."
-- Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Edition 1990, Volume 2, page 707
The civilians whom Handzhar massacred were mainly Serbs and Roma ('Gypsies').
When Mr. Izetbegovic resurrected this Waffen SS division he was telling Serbs, Roma and Jews: "Achtung! Handzhar is back!"
-- Petar Makara and Jared Israel
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