During WW2 the Germans created the SS-Handschar Division which consisted of Bosnian Muslims. Another division was created and this was the SS-Kama. A kama is a small dagger used by Balkan sheepherders. It was established in May 1944 and disbanded in October the same year. Himmler wanted to expand Waffen-SS recruiting in the Balkans. Officially called the "23. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Kama" (kroatische Nr. 2)". It was acknowledged that if the SS-Kama would be pulled out of Bosnia desertion would increase as the men preferred to protect their own villages instead of fighting a foreign enemy in a foreign land. Ethnic Germans were added to the formation. It was no success and the unit would be disbanded before the year's end.
History Hustle presents: The Forgotten Bosnian Muslim Waffen-SS Division: the SS-Kama.
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- World War II Croatian Legionaries [Men-at-Arms 508] (Vladimir Brnardic).
- Himmler’s Bosnian Division: The Waffen-SS Handschar Division, 1943-1945 (George Lepre).
- For the Homeland. The 31st Waffen-SS Volunteer Grenadier Division in World War II (Rudolf Pencz).
- Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Second World War (Enver Redzic).
- Hitler's Jihadis: Muslim Volunteers of the Waffen-SS (Jonathan Trigg).
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