SS Massacres in Bosnia

[borjastick]

After a healthy exchange on Facebook this week with a lunatic woman who insisted she knew all about the Muslim SS divisions massacres of Bosnian and Serbian peoples in the second world war, it prompted me to research this a little further.

This woman insisted that hundreds of thousands of jews in these countries were killed mainly by the actions of the Muslim SS divisions. I don't accept these points, neither the numbers nor the guilt of the Muslim SS units which I thought were quite small in number and quite late into the war.

I have done some research on the Mufti of Jerusalem and accept he was a Hitler worshipper of some magnitude but am not sure about how much his men did in the war. He was against the establishment of israel and the onslaught of the jews from eastern europe into Palestine. Clearly he had more than a crystal ball! Prescient or what?

I have read a few pages on this web site: http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/yugosla ... ration.htm

You'll get their drift in this quote;

During the Second World War in Yugoslavia, as with the Catholic Church in Croatia, many Muslim clerics in Bosnia and Kosovo were willing accomplices in the genocide of the nations Serbian, Jewish and Roma population. From 1941 until 1945, the Nazi-installed regime of Ante Pavelic in Croatia carried out some of the most horrific crimes of the Holocaust (known as the Porajmos by the Roma), killing over 800,000 Yugoslav citizens - 750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews and 26,000 Roma. In these crimes, they were helped by Muslim fundamentalists in Bosnia and Kosovo who were openly supported by the Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. A notorious anti-Semite, he openly encouraged Muslims to join Nazi units that would be later implicated in genocide and crimes against humanity - the infamous Hanjar (or Handschar) 13th Waffen SS division. One of these crimes was the The Massacre at Koritska Jama Gorge, in Bosnia during 1941. The Nazi's also established a puppet state in Serbia under General Milan Nedic, who along with the Cetniks also particapated in the Holocaust in wartime Croatia (which included Bosnia) and Serbia.

As usual with regard to any claims by 'survivors' of the holocaust or any massacres supposedly carried out by German troops the numbers are enormous and it is these likely exaggerated figures that have piqued my interest.

So I ask for input and any guidance on this matter from those here who know a great deal more about the subject than I. Have any of these claims been verified with the establishment of forensic investigation, exhumations, body counts, records and evidence? I mean to claim that 800,000 Yugoslav citizens were massacred takes some balls does it not?

I would appreciate some help on this matter.

[Mulegino1]

The only massacres which I have read about in Bosnia-Herzegovina are those which were sporadic massacres carried out by the Roman Catholic Croatian Ustasha against Orthodox Serbs, and they were pretty barbaric- "they horrified the Italian forces and even shocked the German S.S." as one report claimed. There is a mass grave in Surmanci, close to the famous so called "shrine" of Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. But this was part of an ongoing, centuries old regional religious conflict and had nothing to do with the Wehrmacht or Waffen S.S.

The 800,000 figure would likely be Yugoslavia's total wartime losses- Serbian Chetniks, Ustashe, and Tito's Partisans.