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| | Inaugurated in 2005, Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum contains hundreds of Holocaust-era artifacts, photographs and artworks, all carefully curated to reflect the accurate historical truth of the Holocaust. On display in the Museum are two photographs of the Mufti – one with Heinrich Himmler, and one with Bosnian Muslim units who fought in the ranks of the SS – which present his efforts to promote Nazi ideology during the Shoah... Research shows that the meeting between the Mufti and Adolf Hitler had a negligible practical effect on Nazi policy.</blockquote></ref> | | Inaugurated in 2005, Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum contains hundreds of Holocaust-era artifacts, photographs and artworks, all carefully curated to reflect the accurate historical truth of the Holocaust. On display in the Museum are two photographs of the Mufti – one with Heinrich Himmler, and one with Bosnian Muslim units who fought in the ranks of the SS – which present his efforts to promote Nazi ideology during the Shoah... Research shows that the meeting between the Mufti and Adolf Hitler had a negligible practical effect on Nazi policy.</blockquote></ref> |
| − | [[File:Handschar.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Volunteers with [[Nazi]] [[Totenkopf]] insignia reading [[Nazi]] [[propaganda]] tract, ''Islam and Judaism''.<ref>[https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/croatia-in-ww2.html The Forgotten Atrocities of a Fascist Puppet State-Croatia in WW2], Feb 20, 2019. Billy Moncure. warhistoryonline.com/</ref>]] | + | [[File:Handschar.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Islamic Volunteers with [[Nazi]] [[Totenkopf]] insignia reading [[Nazi]] [[propaganda]] tract, ''Islam and Judaism''.<ref>[https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/croatia-in-ww2.html The Forgotten Atrocities of a Fascist Puppet State-Croatia in WW2], Feb 20, 2019. Billy Moncure. warhistoryonline.com/</ref> <small>Purportedly written by [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem]] already in 1937, printed by Palestinian Arab M. Al-Taher in Egypt distributed at Bludan Sep/1937 conference by Arabs for "Palestine".<ref>Matthias Küntzel, ''Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East: The 1948 Arab War against Israel and the Aftershocks of World War II''. Chapter 'Islamic Antisemitism'. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XB3EEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT14] </ref></small>]] |
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| | As part of their uniform, the Handschar wore a fez with two further symbols: the SS skull and an eagle astride a swastika. Bosnian Handschar soldiers were among the defenders of Berlin in 1945 when it fell to the Soviets. | | As part of their uniform, the Handschar wore a fez with two further symbols: the SS skull and an eagle astride a swastika. Bosnian Handschar soldiers were among the defenders of Berlin in 1945 when it fell to the Soviets. |
| | Ustaše troops carried out the genocide so rapidly in the early summer of 1941, that some confused Serbs reported their actions to the authorities, largely because they could not believe that these actions could be sanctioned by a legitimate government and must be the work of terrorists. Tomislav Dulić has calculated that approximately 75 per cent of Jewish and Roma communities of the NDH and up to 17 per cent of Serbs died as 'victims of fascism'. Six per cent of Croats died, many killed in 1945 by Communists ...<ref>Carmichael, Cathie. A Concise History of Bosnia. N.p.: Cambridge University Press, 2015, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=I2UbCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA78 77-8].</ref>}} | | Ustaše troops carried out the genocide so rapidly in the early summer of 1941, that some confused Serbs reported their actions to the authorities, largely because they could not believe that these actions could be sanctioned by a legitimate government and must be the work of terrorists. Tomislav Dulić has calculated that approximately 75 per cent of Jewish and Roma communities of the NDH and up to 17 per cent of Serbs died as 'victims of fascism'. Six per cent of Croats died, many killed in 1945 by Communists ...<ref>Carmichael, Cathie. A Concise History of Bosnia. N.p.: Cambridge University Press, 2015, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=I2UbCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA78 77-8].</ref>}} |
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