The Croatian Legion - Croatian Volunteers from the Independent State of Croatia on the Eastern Front
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- The Croatian Legion (Hrvatska Legija) was also known as the 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment (369. pojačana pješačka pukovnija) and was a pro-Axis army formation that fought on the Eastern Front. These men came from the Ustasha state: the Independent State of Croatia. They fought during the Second Battle of Kharkov, Operation Fall Blau and the Battle of Stalingrad. After its demise other Croatian Legions were set up. There were also Italian-Croatian Legions, Croatian Air Force, Naval and Anti-Aircraft Legions as well as the 13th SS Mountain Division 'Handschar' & 23rd SS Mountain Division 'Kama' that consisted out of Bosnian Muslims.
History Hustle presents: The Croatian Legion - Croatian Volunteers from the Independent State of Croatia on the Eastern Front.
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- Joining Hitler's Crusade. European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941 (David Stahel) - Croatia (Rory Yeomans).
- Axis Forces in Yugoslavia 1941-45 [Men-at-Arms 282] (N. Thomas & K Mikulan).
- World War II Croatian Legionaries [Men-at-Arms 508] (Vladimir Brnardic).
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NORWEGIANS: ruclips.net/video/F3BPW5WMmDo/видео.html
FRENCH: ruclips.net/video/ju97ru3nQis/видео.html
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RUSSIANS: ruclips.net/video/cKpj786Sorc/видео.html
CENTRAL ASIANS: ruclips.net/video/TEhX9q7wtzo/видео.html
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Tell us about Yugoslavian partisans!
Need Belgians
@@franknezevic4385 One day in the future. Can't tell when.
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i doubt that they were volounters
Great vid Stefan! As usual. Great work!
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Great vid .Thank-you
Thanks!
Always learn something from your videos. Thank you
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Liked the vid, gave it a thumbs up. Thanks as always for your dedication!
Great to hear, many thanks for these kind words :)
Also Was a Croatian legion of the Italian army (Light Transport Brigade) it was totally annihilated in December 1942 on the Don river during the battle of Stalingrad.
Thanks for sharing.
Light Transport brigade?
@@mihajlozaric6957 yes, mixed unit with croatian and italian soldiers.
On croatian language...lako transportni zdrug
What happened to the survivors?
@@ferencpusztai5201 no survivors the unit was destroyed
You were born to do this. Most informative. Thank you. Michael from Texas.
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Always look forward to your videos
Great! Thanks for your reply, Gerard!
BRAVOO FOR THE VIDEO!
Thanks.
Keep on making these videos on these smaller formations and nations, these are really interesting
Great to read 👍
Interesting video, thanks for posting.
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G’day Stephan.
I appreciate, as I’m sure many subscribers do, the trouble you go to to find sources often neglected which makes your documentaries fresh and always from a different perspective than the Kershaws and Beevors of the mainstream history scene.
I have Croatian friends. They are well versed to their Peoples history.
Your presentation leads the listener to believe that the Croatian State appeared only after the fall of Yugoslavia in WWII.
However, Croatia was an independent kingdom under King Thomaslav in the 10th century. The Croats are an a unique ethnic group and should deserve their right of self determination as should all. The Croats were oppressed by their neighbours who coveted their lands. Occupied by the Austrians many years prior to WWI, and afterwards were included, against their will, into what could rightly be called the Kingdom of Greater Serbia - Yugoslavia. Where they again were oppressed by the Serbs. I no of no Croats who we’re happy under Tito’s new Yugoslavia and as soon as the fall of the Iron Curtain the Croats as did the Slovenes and many other unique ethnic groups, could not wait to establish an independent Nation for themselves.
The Croats are a people with a history that goes back a millennium and the Pavelic govt was simply a manifestation of the Croat will for self determination.
They had no option than to be allies of the Germans as the allies were intent to force them back into the rule of the Serbs.
Tnx for your words man from Hrvatska , and good luck .
Шта је усташо,не свиђа ти се истина....кољачи и убице дјеце,жена и стараца.....
Another great Sunday! Top
Thank you.
Great presentation, great content, great channel , thank you, your students are very lucky.
Many thanks! :D
Great work!
thanks
Criminally underrated channel
Feel free to share! :)
Fun fact: "domobran" (5:36) means "homeguard"
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@@narancauk nope
У четницима и партизанима су већину чинили Срби.
It means-butcher of small kids
@@pericamali7009 it means you should stay in your country
Another great video History Hustle! Keep it up m8!
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Thank you so much, Stefan! This is the first tima I hear all those informations in one video.
Thanks for watching 👍
Very interesting video.
Keep it going !!
Thanks for your message!
Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing sir. Outstanding job sir.
Thanks!
Great video Stefan !
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Great video dude! Interesting stuff!
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AWESOME VIDEO .
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Congratulations on your videos!
In WW2 was the Croatian insignia worn on the left or right arm of the tunic? Greetings from Brazil.
Thanks. Depends.I believe I point it out in the video.
Another one of those interesting little subjects, well presented and not so little either. Please keep up the good work.
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Great Video!!!
Thanks David!
awesome information
Thanks 👍
Brilliant hustle can’t wait to see you with 1 mil subs I always tweet 🐥 your episodes when they come out can’t be a patron but I will always try my best to advertise your channel to help it grow 👍🏻
Many many many thanks for your support and kind words! :)
This is really cool, few talk about them.
Thanks!
Thank you! ❤
Thanks for your reply.
Never disappointed when I click on your excellent channel. Awesome work.
Thank you.
Always a pleasure to hear from my favorite Dutchman.
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Love it
Thanks!
Very interesting
Great to read!
Anyone know on which side the SS runes where placed on the helmets worn by the Croatian SS units? Also on one side was the SS style runes and on the other was a shield decal with the Croatian checkered flag
Would you consider doing a series on the attempts by the Netherlands to hold onto their colonies in the Netherlands East Indies, independence in 1949 and then the conflict over Irian Jaya in 1964?
Covered here:
ruclips.net/video/RlSXajHiPUU/видео.html
And here:
ruclips.net/video/EjcNA06DSbI/видео.html
Few yrs ago i meet a guy in Ukraine who's godfather was a Croatian pilot. He was shoot down by Red army and decided to stay in village near Nikolayev in Ukraine after he was released from war prison camp. Unfortunately, guy couldn't remember his name and since it was a winter, he couldn't reach his village to ask his father about it. Since we lost one family member as a pilot there, i was curious, but never got any info about it later.
Very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing this.
If you know so little why post it here?
@@fintonmainz7845 what did you try to say?
Awesome!!!!!! Keep your nice work!!!!! :))
Thanks!!
Always a thumbs up from me.
GREAT :)
I'm a native English speaker, U.S., and have to say, in case you were wondering, your English delivery, and emphasis is phenomonal.
It's one of the two reasons I subscribed, the other being content I don't see much anywhere else.
Well done!
Hey Mark, much thanks for your reply!
I have subject for you- last battle in whole europa- battle for ODŽAK. Berlin fall..Odžak did not. Croatian black legion was defending it to the last man alive.
Love to travel to Odzak one day. I heard it was the last battle in Europe.
@@HistoryHustle when partisan come.in.Odzak. They tell.them there no more Ndh.
They said what are you talking obout Kula Fazlagic still is Ndh. They.figth till end of May.
@@bob8688 falio so cijelo fudbal ipak je ovo povijesni kanal.
@@dbkmk9378 makedonac odmori malo zdravlja ti nego sta ima kod vas u Bugarskoj
@@bob8688 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💪
I have a question Stefan. Do you only cover WW2 stuff or do you cover or plan to cover some stuff from the 90's. For an example "the homeland war"
I covered the Yugoslav Wars in a combined episode:
ruclips.net/video/JrMX2b8LLtY/видео.html
@@HistoryHustle thanks, didn't know that
My Granfather was in 369th Kroatischen Infanterie Division (Special Force) of SS. He was killed in Stalingrad.
Hero! Rest in peace
There we're No SS Divisions in Stalingrad!
@@mihajlozaric6957 My Granfather was 1 man of 150 in Special Forces of SS in Battle of Stalingrad and my Familie have a Iron Curten 1th class of my Granfather.
Thanks for sharing.
There was No ss in Stalingrad show me the oppositte, i knew some Stalingrad veterans
Do you maybe think you could do a video on slovenians in ww2 someday?
Thanks for amazing work,
Tine
Someday yes, can't tell when though.
White guard (Belogardisti/Bela garda)
Excellent presenting skills !!
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Stefan what is your favourite weapon and tank of ww2
Can't tell for tanks. As for weapons, hard to say actually. In design I most like the Dutch Hembrug M.95.
@@HistoryHustle Maybe contact the Tank Museum Bovington UK to do a Top 5 Tanks? Would be interesting.
Hey where can I find the map on your wall, it's very nice.
Marktplaats.nl
Thank you! Dank je! Hvala vam!
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I've heard stories that the Croatian pilots were pretty damn good!!!
I see.
I heard from older croatian imigrants who migrated to germany after ww2 that some germans in a bar asked them who they are and after they responded "croats" the germans would spend drinks and tell them stories of how croats were badas at stalingrad and that 1 croat doesnt fear 20 rusians.
@@HistoryHustle
Best Croatian pilot, captain Mato Dukovac shot down 44 airplanes.
Best American pilot, Richard Ira Bong shot down 40 planes.
Just saying 😎
@@goranhajduk1992 Jesi li ponosan?
@@bobbydicappa5814
Samo kažem povijesnu činjenicu, sviđalo se to nekome ili ne.
Great work as always
Thanks!
An interesting thing I read is that alot of members of the croatian legion ended up in the french foreign legion and fought in Algeria.Come to think of it actually alot of former ss soldiers ended up in the foreign legion after the end of ww2 and saw action in Algeria and Indochina.
Could be! Can't tell. Thanks for sharing.
Great lecture Professor. Its good to hear about the axis minor countries that fought on the front and what their experiences were like. A+
Many thanks for watching this one!
As a Croatian, this was a very interesting video to me. Nice work.
Thanks 👍
See this: ruclips.net/video/bVbqdD6CmOI/видео.html
Hé Stefan. Uit welke docu heb je de beelden in de tweede sectie vandaan gehaald? Ben al even op zoek naar die specifieke docu over Kroatië tijdens WO2 maar niet zo gemakkelijk te vinden. Alvast bedankt!
Zie links in beschrijving onder kopje VIDEO.
@@HistoryHustle Dank je wel! Doe vooral verder met je video's. Ik volg dit kanaal al een aantal jaar en ik heb het mij nog niet beklaagd
Coupd you please do a video about greek pro axis forces? I can help you if you want. Nice job btw keep it up.
Feel free to e-mail me (adress below each video).
I am back and I love this video
I have a few questiond? (not about the video)
1. Do you think that the airforce tanks and navy are interesting
2. If yes, what do you find the most interesting
3. Ever heard about war thunder
Welcome back!
1) No, sorry.
2) Not that much I'm afraid.
3) Yes, but I play mostly console games (Mario Kart and Smash Bros).
Another excellent presentation Stefan! Keep up the interesting work.........
Many thanks!
I am Stefan also
@Lenox Croatian jesam srb
Jesam Srbin
@Lenox Croatian tako momci bolje nego sranja i rata! 👍
Are you going to do a video on Belgian volunteers like the langemarcks and legion wallonie
Doing research now. Expect early 2021.
Great. Waiting for the Handzar division to be covered.
One day!
Love the foreign legions series, they have the most fascinating stories. I have been to Croatia and it is probably the most beautiful country on the planet. Was hard to believe such horrible things took place in this beautiful land. Keep up the great work!
Thanks! Love to travel to Croatia one day.
@@HistoryHustle First LEARN some esential FACTS about Croatia. And then you'll be welcome. But learn it from HISTORY, a TRUE writers of the history, and NOT from serbian "writers" and their "truth".
Your listening to the Yugo communist version of what happened.... communists?????,reliable source????do some research........the truth will come out.........sad that people believe this.....no offence to yuo......Croatia is a beautiful country.......and it's people....were not mass murders......wish yuo all the best....visit Croatia again.... god bless yuo.....from a Croatian soilder.....1991-95.
Yes, they happened to the Croatian people in the last 100 years from the Greater Serbia horde, and after 45 from the communist Greater Serbia and Yugoslav regime that wanted to exterminate the Croatian people, and divided the country to look like a bitten apple , study history a little and not just from wikipedias and paid trolls.
Yes. Communism has destroyed the land
No mention of Croatia is complete without the story of the famous 7th SS Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen". I have several Prinz Eugen items in my collection and their story is interesting but at the end tragic. The "verbindung" between Germany and Croatia is interesting. My German wife had one whole branch of her family that were Deutsch-Kroaten. Their descriptions of vacations there during the Cold War under Tito were very interesting. I love Croatia and the food! Hravatska!
Okay, thanks for sharing.
for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
And the 13 Waffen mountain division Handscher (Croatian #1) recruited from Bosnian Muslims.
Ima ih goriva iz koprivnice, ludbreg itd
Dude ur videos r packed with history and swag. I really enjoy them. The Croatian 369th, I wonder if their name bears any relationship to the 369th Harlem Hell Fighters of ww1 in terms of the type of toughness the Reich expected of its allied soldiers on the EF? They were feared & highly respected by their German foes.
Can't tell. But thanks for your reply!
I doubt Germany would name an infantry division after an all black unit famous for killing Germans.
If you all want know about croation legion there is book on english called croation legion 369 infantry regiment on estren front in that book you will know evrething battle of harkov and battle of stalingrad (railway station,red october factory an mamajev kuban hill that where places where croats legion foughts
Hrvati su najhrabriji narod na svetu ne zato sto se nicega ne boje vec zato sto se nicega ne stide..
@@aleksandarj.8369 i kakve to ima veze s ovim filmom
Sounds like an interesting read!
Make more videos like this and you should make a video how the Germans could have surrender Berlin to the western allies if you are interested
Thanks. Armchair History made a good video about the topic.
Old grandpa from my village was in it and still has all of the equipment. Ngl mad respects for that old man, he gave his machinegun to a soldier in 1992, that soldier died in Kupres pocket while protecting civilians.
What did he tell you about his experiences? Love to know!
@@HistoryHustle he went to gulag and after leaving he joined Soviet army because Yugoslavs would kill him. He got out after the Iran crisis by burning his Soviet clothes and wearing the Ustasha one but with removed symbols. He stayed in Germany for a short time and got back Yugoslavia in 1972 after Croatians started to rise up against communism but the rising failed so he had to hide. But hey he at least got back to Bosnia where he witnessed the birth of Croatian republic and the flag above Knin. He died in 1998, two months after eastern Slavonia was returned. The only thing he had he gave to a museum (his Soviet and Croatian medals from WW2).
Many thanks for sharing!
@@hippityhop9522 my grandfathers were also from the villages (in Livno) and they served in the Ustase and Homegaurd (possibly Germans) during ww2. I don't know much about their service but I have a 1941 1000 kuna banknote and a Ante Pavelić silver bravery medal.
Have you done a video about Leon degrelle?
Belgium. Not yet, but expect this somewhere in 2021.
Ok, thank you.
Question
Were there any croation legions in the red army or sponsored(supported) by the red army?
BTW as always your video is well prepared and perfectly executed
Thanks, and yes I did mention that. For that check also TIK's video about the Croatian Legion.
@@HistoryHustle roger that!
The red army recruited soldiers in every country they occupied. In 1944 they reoccupied parts of Estonia and the region turned into a practical civil war as soviet estonian units were fighting estonian german auxillaries.
@@MrKakibuy so basicaly from yugoslavia to even norway there were some forms of legions in german ocupied country'?
@@utkarshchoudhary3870 Yes, and they were also setting up soviet governments there
Just a small language correction: you keep pronouncing "Jugoslav" instead of "Yugoslav". That state was called Yugoslavia, which was derived from "yug" (meaning "south"), thus meaning "the country of Southern Slavs", or "Southernslavia". Yes, it is spelled locally "Jugoslavija", but both Js are pronounced as Y in "yesterday", not as J in "Jim" or "Jimi" or "Janis" :) So, "Jugoslavija" is to be pronounced correctly as "Yugoslavia".
Check, thanks!
great video, great content, very informative, well don! can you show and explain the large map in the background please? (:
Thanks. The map is a German school map.
Is that an M43 tunic he's wearing in the video? Or am I just wrong.
drill jacket, don't know which year. Its repro.
@@HistoryHustle It looks to me like a M43 Drill Tunic then, Since the M43 tunic had the pocket bottoms square instead of rounded to save time and material, Which is why I initially thought it was an M43.
Is de helm in de achtergrond origineel of een replro?
Repro.
@@HistoryHustle nice
Make a video about Bleiburg ?
One day 👍
@@HistoryHustle chek Huda Jama In Slovenia
As my erstwhile father-in-law said: putting the question, is answering the question. Fascism nowadays is big in Croatia. There is a real ustase revival, despite a ban by law on that.
The real question is why does EU tolerate such behavior?
@@MrKersey Ha...Well they (the EU) tolerate Communism!....in fact they practice it!!
First of all NDH wasn't fascist but was nazi. Also saying it is big today is nonsense. In the last say 20 years I've heard em mentioned 1 time and I live in Croatia. What did your father in law actually say?
What BS are you spewing. I live in Croatia and it is not having a revival, only if you are the one type of person to confuse a patriot with an ustaša which is retarded.
Love to travel to Croatia one day.
Hello,
would have Croatian units that were fighting on the Eastern Front, such as the Croatian Legion, be involved in the killing operations of the Einsatzgruppen against Jews and other targeted groups?
No! 369th was part of Wehrmacht not SS.
@@dragodrazenovic1064 Hey, it’s true that the Croatian Legion weren’t SS. Yet the Wehrmacht were at times involved in such killing operations and massacres as well. Perhaps, the Croatian Legion or other Croat units were involved in these killing operations.
@@thenerdyhistorian5606 It is possible that some Wehrmacht rear units committed these crimes but the 369th was constantly on the front line. I read the original war diaries of 369 and there is no mention of such a thing anywhere.
@E G: good question! I haven't read about them killing civilians, but it might have happened. So I can't tell.
@@dragodrazenovic1064 Good point, it’s possible that the Croatian Legion were not involved in the killing operations on the Eastern Front. As you said about the diaries of the soldiers of the Legion, it could be that they weren’t involved and were heavily involved in the fighting. It’s a very interesting topic to look into definitely.
Father of my grandpa served the mountain division i dont know wich one of those two... grandpa told me that he was there in the war and he returned home from the war safe.all i know!
Thanks for sharing this.
dank je wederom stefan! of is het stephan?
Dank!
Stefan
Thanks to Croatian Volunteers from Ukraine! Brothers in arms!
I see. Soon more about Croatia in WW2.
@Janko S ustashe themselves wrote about killing, also even Germans were shocked by scale of it.
Slava ukrajini from croatia
@@dakedakinson64 In a fake (serbian) history book ;)
@@HistoryHustle well tell the ENTIRE TRUTH about Serbian genocide that started in 1st and 2nd Balkan wars, Serbians murdered,raped and stole ancient ancestral lands of CROATIANS all over Bosnia and Herzegovina,Serbians murdered and stole Albanian lands all over kosovo and Montenegro, Bosnian Muslims too. Serbs were minority in Bosnia before 1912 and when WW2 started croatians were minority,USTASAS and Albanians SS divisions were created in order to survive,it was all Defense AGAINST Serbian aggression. TITO WAS CROATIAN AS WERE PARTISANS WHO LIBERATED YUGOSLAVIA FROM NAZIS. TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH NOT JUST SErbian lies from their propaganda
lets get him to 50k we can do it guys!
50K in 2020 💪
@@HistoryHustle YES
Please Sir, when are we going on a field trip?
When Covid-19 is over.
the saddest part is that we were more independent during ww2 than right now
I doubt that...
Nemaš pojima o čemu pričaš, NDH je tipična kvislinška tvorevina (puppet state), svatko tko je imao drugačije mišljenje je završio u logoru uključujuči političare koji su tad uživali najveće povjerenje naroda kao što je Maček.
Jesi ti to Milane mislio na jugoslaviju.
The main driving force why Pavelić sent legion to Eastern front was NDH tried to move away from Italy. In early stage of war according to agreement between Germany and Italy NDH could not form larger military units so this was a way NDH trained and formed larger military units and at the same time moved away from Italy who claimed large part of Croatian coast. It was a difficult time and far more complicated than historians describes. At the end we had a civil war against Croatians themselves. Pavelić was a Croat but Tito was a Croat too. Btw Origin of Croation Homeguard (Domobranstvo) is much older than Pavelić NDH was because Croatia had Homeguard after Austria-Hungary was formed.
Thanks for your reply! Much to be explored about this topic!
@@HistoryHustle You are welcome.
Tito was not a croat, nor serb...dont be naive, his accent proves he wasnt originally from this area
Please can you tell me if there were any Swiss volunteers, who joined the Germans.
Perhaps some, but as far as I know there was no Swiss Legion or anything.
@@HistoryHustle "More than 2,000 Swiss volunteers fought alongside the Nazis, but it's not known how many of them were prisoners," Nathalie Zellweger, the exhibition's curator, told swissinfo.
@@HistoryHustle Thanks anyway for answering plus love the video!
Or French. If find it quite fascinating that a lot of French "joined" the Germans, like Walloon Legion.
History Hustle what can you tell us about a Croatian formation that was put on a hill somewhere near Stalingrad and on one flank there were Italians and the other I think Romanian forces. Anyhow I read something about these Guys many years ago and they knew the Russians were going to attack in the morning so during the night the Italian & Romanians pulled out and left the Croatians to pretty much be decimated to the last man. Anyhow the story I read said the Croatians fought to the end! Do you know anything about this event? It was so long ago that I read this story I don't even know what history book it was! Thank for an amazing channel!
Thanks. Do check TIK History and his video serie in Stalingradfor that.
nice video
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My grandfather served, to some capacity, during the war -supposedly being drafted 4 times to fight under four different flags. He rarely spoke of the war and I never learned Croatian. An uncle served under Tito before defecting to the US in the late 50s.
Interesting to read. Do you know more of your grandfathers experiences during the war?
@@HistoryHustle I really wish I did. I last saw him in 1987 on the family farm in Osojnik, Croatia. I was at the right place at the right time, but we had a major language barrier. My dad and his father never really got along. My dad was especially not pleased about me collecting war souvenirs and exploring on my own. I did meet an old gentleman that gave me vintage "Kuna" from the war years. This I have given to my younger brother. The following civil war pretty much ended contact with the Croatian side of my family and my grandfather passed away sometime during the conflict. I was told later that, on his fourth and final stint in the war, he pulled his service revolver and shot himself in the foot to be sent home to his wife and kids. "I've had enough!", he supposedly said. Whether this is true or not I do not know. My younger brother, with the help of a local Serbian and the military, has mastered the Serbo-Croatian to the point of being more fluid than my own dad...lol Every now and again he tells me bits and pieces he learns of our family history.
Many thanks for sharing!
@@DragonBlue68 You spend too much time with serbs.
That wasn't a civil war, and there is no serbo-croatian, serbian language is mostly made out of turkish, french and english words combined with slavic words.
@@DragonBlue68 I also don't know much about my great grandfather's war service in Croatia. I also have a 1941 1000 Kuna banknote that my grandmother gave me as well as an Ante Pavelić silver bravery medal but I don't know much more than his service other than things like an uncle who died in Bleiberg as well as uncles dying in France.
Kun je misschien een video maken over de inzet van Nederlandse waffen ss?
Heb er twee video's gemaakt over Nederlandse SS'ers. Deze maand #3. In 2021 #4 over de gevechten.
Thanks can you do a video and go more in depth about Romanians/ Bulgaria or Albanias involved in the War please?
Thanks. I have this one already for you
ruclips.net/video/d2ooWaovOd4/видео.html
@@HistoryHustle no rush I'm sure you have it future covered
Thanks for understanding 👍
Stefan , you are amazing , some of your first videos were not so in depth , but now more and more you come up with amazing subjects , and you do not hesitate to tell the truth on many taboo subjects , lot of respect for you, where you find the time and energy , and your main job ??? Greets
Many thanks, Patrick. I try to do my best. Cheers!
The time? Guess not having a girlfriend and effective planning helps me doing this haha.
Thank you for very interesting lecture with a lot of new information for me! Is it possible to add English subtitres? It will help to study English. I am more reader than listener.
Thanks for your reply. I'm gonna take a look if I can add subtitles.
@@HistoryHustle Thank you very much! Your students are lucky to have such a wonderful teacher!
What's your native language? You speak English very well. Informative content, well done.
Thanks. I am Dutch 🇳🇱
very detailed explanation to explain some of the routeing problems of the Yugoslav civil war in the '90s. Looking forward to the next video on the subject and perhaps you should cover the civil war too.
This is my video about the Yugoslav Wars on the 1990s in case you're interested:
ruclips.net/video/JrMX2b8LLtY/видео.html
Yugoslav wars weren't civil wars, Republic of Serbia attacked Republic of Slovenia, Croatia, BiH and Kosovo.
Imagine if the EU attacked UK upon British exit from the EU and used British citizens who were against Brexit to establish a "state" within UK. Thats hardly a civil war, isn't it?
It was a mix of war(s) of aggression (Serbia attacking the newly independent states) and civil war(s). Ethnic Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia trying to undermine those new states and help their Belgrade brethren carve out territory for Great Serbia. Also, why not do a video about Nedic, Ljotic, Serbian Academy members who all supported Hitler, celebrated his birthday etc. Or Serbs oppressing the crap out of everyone in the first Yugoslavia, which is how the Ustaše even came to be. Conversely, why not do a video on all the Croats and Bosnians who fought with Tito's Partizans against the Nazis, Italians, Ustaše collaborators, Chetnik collaborators and other foreign fascists making excursions into Yugo territory (ex.Bulgarians, who plundered) etc.?
it was not a civil war
@@slavenrasic2173this is not true. You simplify things to put blame on Serbia. What about Jugoslav army solders who were attacked first.
I am from croatia, you have really good and Objectively explained, good job.
Thank you!
Nice try serb
@Clint R Culture?
@Clint R Ma ti si panj! Ne lupetaj!
@Clint R you do know that todays dalmatia is the first teritorry to be called croatia
The remnants of 369th were re-formed into Yugoslav army and were used in suicidal charges against Ustashe and Axis. They were deliberatly sent into attack without giving them any support. Other units would hold their fire as they were sent in. To my understanding they were nearly wiped out. Someone mentioned that they were used in the battle of Odzak where the last unsurrendered Ustashe units dug in.
Thanks for the additional information.
369 Stalingrad!!
They were used in this way specially in the Battle for Čačak, where yes they took the needed ground on their own but got heavily punished for it. I guess it was an order by the Partisans for them to redeem themselves and also to lose their numbers accordingly...
At 9 minutes in, you ask about the pronunciation of TIK/Tik. If the producer spells it TIK in capitols, then it's pronounced T.I.K. (Tee I Kay).
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How about the Albanian SS-Skanderbeg division and the National Front( the Ballists), btw my grandfather was member of the Albanian National Front who have fought against the Communists.
Interesting, perhaps something for the future.
My grandfather was a Captain in the Croatian Homeguard , was killed at the very end of the war in 1945 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷
Da li si ponosan?
@@bobbydicappa5814 Naravno da sam ponosan 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷
Sad to hear.
Отресли су га на Блајбургу ко дивљу свињу.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Great vid...
Fun fact:
I think NDH never declared war on USSR,but did to USA.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Germany did not declared war on USSR. I'm not so sure just read Molotov statement which he addressed to the Soviet people on a day of invasion.
About 10 seconds into this video I realized he was wearing a repro ww2 era German tunic. Nice, looks stylish!!
👍 Drill jacket.
One more reason history is so important. If more people understood this history the Balkan war in the 90's would make mode sense to people
And they don't forget there. Its like your great great....grandfather stole my great great.....grandfathers goat. Swear the McCoy's/ Clampets could learn a thing or two from them.
@@DelijeSerbia UN confirmed all those "crimes" were fake and non existed. No one belives serbia (turkish puppet state)🤡
Just look... this is why you must never start a public debate on the balkan war
@@kategoried7501 Are you sick or something, what about Japanesse genocide on China, Holocaust, and genocide on Ukranians, and genocide on Armenians
@@hercegovac6582 Says persone which grandfather used "srbosijek" to cut hundreds of Serbs