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As Europe descended into struggle the newly shaped country of Croatia stumbled on itself an best friend in Nazi Germany. Tens of hundreds of thousands of Croatians volunteered for the German Wehrmacht, with Croatian-badged devices created in the military, army, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS and Police strength. whilst Hitler became his cognizance to Stalins Soviet Union lots of those males chanced on themselves thrown into the fray, with Croatian infantrymen serving at Stalingrad, scuffling with Titos Partisans within the Balkans and combating opposed to the advancing purple military in Hungary. Aided through certain illustrations, writer Vladimir Brnardic explores the uniforms and kit of global warfare II Croatian Legionaries.
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Private collection) 43 midnight-blue cap has gold insignia and, for this rank, narrow ‘vandyked’ edging to the black peak. His rank is displayed by a single gold ‘pip’ on Kriegsmarine shoulder straps of silver cord on midnight-blue underlay. C2: Oberleutenant zur See, 23rd SubmarineHunter Flotilla, spring 1944 The commander of the submarine-hunter UJ-2309, Lt Zdravko Pleško is dressed for sea duty in a white-topped cap and a black variant of the Kriegsmarine’s normally dark grey ‘U-boat leathers’.
On duty in a gun position he would normally wear a helmet, belt and boots, but not all photos show these. His collar patches and the piping to his shoulder straps are in red artillery Waffenfarbe, and his Croatian nationality is indicated by the woven Croatian Air Force Legion ‘wings’ on his left sleeve. This divisional collar-patch emblem for the 23rd SS Mtn Div ‘Kama’ has been illustrated, showing a sun-disc superimposed over a diagonal knife shaped like a Caucasian kindjal, but there is no photographic evidence for its wartime manufacture or use.
The holstered P08 pistol identifies him as a member of the Zug of a crew-served weapon or as a vehicle crewman. A portrait of a Waffen-Hauptscharführer (warrant officer) of 13th SS Mtn Div ‘Handschar’, probably taken in 1944. Note that the woven silver-grey SS eagle-and-swastika above the death’s-head badge on his low field-grey fez appears to be larger than the small pattern usually worn on field caps; compare it with the example worn on his left arm, above the first-pattern SS national shield.