The Croatian Legion - Croatian Volunteers from the Independent State of Croatia on the Eastern Front

[@HistoryHustle]

Want to learn about other PRO-GERMAN VOLUNTEERS? DUTCH: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mILPd2OflpJ0eKM NORWEGIANS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGSlgYprjLKgetE FRENCH: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKacaKWraNOEn9U SPANISH: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2m4g4ONaqqIfLM RUSSIANS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXzTm2pua7iiqMU CENTRAL ASIANS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/inbLiWynbNynsNE CAUCASIANS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3akgax_rMp6psk

[@franknezevic4385]

Tell us about Yugoslavian partisans!

[@dancarson1479]

Need Belgians

[@HistoryHustle]

@@franknezevic4385 One day in the future. Can't tell when.

[@CalebNorthNorman]

👍

[@ramsaysnow9196]

i doubt that they were volounters

[@Darkthrone-qi1ic]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@mihajlozaric6957]

Light Transport brigade?

[@lazarjeremias1421]

@@mihajlozaric6957 yes, mixed unit with croatian and italian soldiers. On croatian language...lako transportni zdrug

[@ferencpusztai5201]

What happened to the survivors?

[@Darkthrone-qi1ic]

@@ferencpusztai5201 no survivors the unit was destroyed

[@authari11]

Thanks to Croatian Volunteers from Ukraine! Brothers in arms!

[@HistoryHustle]

I see. Soon more about Croatia in WW2.

[@dakedakinson64]

@Janko S ustashe themselves wrote about killing, also even Germans were shocked by scale of it.

[@oskng]

Slava ukrajini from croatia

[@markohrvat]

​@@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

[@cetochtlisofunny523]

Ukraine sucks lol

[@sarunda2003]

Thank you so much, Stefan! This is the first tima I hear all those informations in one video.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@cucak_agent]

My Granfather was in 369th Kroatischen Infanterie Division (Special Force) of SS. He was killed in Stalingrad.

[@em-vz1jq]

Hero! Rest in peace

[@mihajlozaric6957]

There we're No SS Divisions in Stalingrad!

[@cucak_agent]

@@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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@mihajlozaric6957]

There was No ss in Stalingrad show me the oppositte, i knew some Stalingrad veterans

[@franknezevic4385]

Fun fact: "domobran" (5:36) means "homeguard"

[@HistoryHustle]

Check 👍

[@hippityhop9522]

@@narancauk nope

[@АлександарВелики-ч9ш]

У четницима и партизанима су већину чинили Срби.

[@pericamali7009]

It means-butcher of small kids

[@the300XM8]

@@pericamali7009 it means you should stay in your country

[@WestfaliaStuff]

Criminally underrated channel

[@HistoryHustle]

Feel free to share! :)

[@robertfraser4994]

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.

[@slavenhruska7427]

Tnx for your words man from Hrvatska , and good luck .

[@liplje]

Шта је усташо,не свиђа ти се истина....кољачи и убице дјеце,жена и стараца.....

[@eLOZedO]

Nice try of whitewashing their Nazism. Alas, historical facts disagree with you. Only proper thing you wrote is that they are unique ethnic group and that they deserve their right of self determination (as should all).

[@YourD3estinY]

While I agree with most of what you say, I have to disagree with your portrayal of Croatia as an occupied territory of Austria(-Hungary). The Sabor voted Ferdinand I. as their king in 1527, which is documented in the Charta of Cetingrad. This surely wasn't voluntary, but it wasn't an occupation either, as it was in response to the defeats in the Battle of Krbava Field and the Battle of Mohacs against the Ottoman Empire, hoping to get the Habsburg's support in their struggle against a common enemy.

[@robertfraser4994]

@@YourD3estinY thanks for that, regards, Robert

[@anteradnic9007]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing this.

[@fintonmainz7845]

If you know so little why post it here?

[@anteradnic9007]

@@fintonmainz7845 what did you try to say?

[@solonbevilacqua7013]

Congratulations on your videos! In WW2 was the Croatian insignia worn on the left or right arm of the tunic? Greetings from Brazil.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks. Depends.I believe I point it out in the video.

[@Centraleuropebusiness]

My grandfather was a Captain in the Croatian Homeguard , was killed at the very end of the war in 1945 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷

[@bobbydicappa5814]

Da li si ponosan?

[@Centraleuropebusiness]

@@bobbydicappa5814 Naravno da sam ponosan 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷

[@HistoryHustle]

Sad to hear.

[@salesale5774]

Отресли су га на Блајбургу ко дивљу свињу.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mammuchan8923]

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!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks! Love to travel to Croatia one day.

[@brankoorlovic8963]

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.

[@marinbozic5462]

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.

[@johncataldo5529]

Considering what happened there in the 90's, I don't find it surprising at all.

[@mammuchan8923]

@@johncataldo5529 I was there about 10 years ago and was in a museum with info and dedicated to the victims of the 90s conflicts. It was quite surreal having a swim off the jetty and seeing that same area with boats on fire in the near past

[@TheSpritz0]

I've heard stories that the Croatian pilots were pretty damn good!!!

[@HistoryHustle]

I see.

[@ramsaysnow9196]

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.

[@goranhajduk1992]

@@HistoryHustle Best Croatian pilot, captain Mato Dukovac shot down 44 airplanes. Best American pilot, Richard Ira Bong shot down 40 planes. Just saying 😎

[@bobbydicappa5814]

@@goranhajduk1992 Jesi li ponosan?

[@goranhajduk1992]

@@bobbydicappa5814 Samo kažem povijesnu činjenicu, sviđalo se to nekome ili ne.

[@johnmcarthur3519]

proud to be Croatian ⚔️🇭🇷⚔️!

[@HistoryHustle]

Ok

[@spatrk6634]

says "John McArthur" not Ivan Artur

[@gregnelson7915]

Proud of your nazi history? lol

[@gustamagla6417]

BOG I HRVATI ZA DOM SPREMNI 1941. 1991.

[@salesale5774]

@@gustamagla6417 За Блабург спремни коњушари! 😂

[@tada869]

Great vid Stefan! As usual. Great work!

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@mpravica]

The Croatian Ustashe were fanatical Hitler/Nazi supporters, period. Though they were Slavic, they considered themselves "germanic." Their "culture" was defined in opposition to that of the Serbs. Whatever the Serbs did, they did the opposite. Thank you for addressing this difficult and long suppressed/censored story. Never forget!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@nohlavopi8617]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Love to travel to Odzak one day. I heard it was the last battle in Europe.

[@dbkmk9378]

@@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.

[@dbkmk9378]

@@bob8688 falio so cijelo fudbal ipak je ovo povijesni kanal.

[@bob8688]

@@dbkmk9378 makedonac odmori malo zdravlja ti nego sta ima kod vas u Bugarskoj

[@vojvoda9060]

@@bob8688 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💪

[@michaelweeks9317]

You were born to do this. Most informative. Thank you. Michael from Texas.

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@theobolt250]

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.

[@MrKersey]

The real question is why does EU tolerate such behavior?

[@robertchubb1518]

@@MrKersey Ha...Well they (the EU) tolerate Communism!....in fact they practice it!!

[@TheKres7787]

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?

[@Budra105]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Love to travel to Croatia one day.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Another great video History Hustle! Keep it up m8!

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍

[@marksmith8928]

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!

[@HistoryHustle]

Hey Mark, much thanks for your reply!

[@Bigsky1991]

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!

[@HistoryHustle]

Okay, thanks for sharing.

[@cocapepsi5101]

for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

[@johncataldo5529]

And the 13 Waffen mountain division Handscher (Croatian #1) recruited from Bosnian Muslims.

[@DogoPit]

Ima ih goriva iz koprivnice, ludbreg itd

[@JamesJones-dr3mf]

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

[@jeffho1727]

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.

[@Dixie-wm8nc]

@@DelijeSerbia UN confirmed all those "crimes" were fake and non existed. No one belives serbia (turkish puppet state)🤡

[@MrKakibuy]

Just look... this is why you must never start a public debate on the balkan war

[@njegosobradovic4685]

@@unsgus925 Are you sick or something, what about Japanesse genocide on China, Holocaust, and genocide on Ukranians, and genocide on Armenians

[@njegosobradovic4685]

@@hercegovac6582 Says persone which grandfather used "srbosijek" to cut hundreds of Serbs

[@justtracie8636]

Always learn something from your videos. Thank you

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@noastrength]

As a Croatian, this was a very interesting video to me. Nice work.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks 👍

[@tomaakvinski3422]

See this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIfFopd6a6ighas

[@davidforbregd2096]

Great Video!!!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks David!

[@kababyenoh]

Always a pleasure to hear from my favorite Dutchman.

[@HistoryHustle]

😁👍

[@gerardnadrowski5672]

Always look forward to your videos

[@HistoryHustle]

Great! Thanks for your reply, Gerard!

[@bojanjerkovic1058]

BRAVOO FOR THE VIDEO!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks.

[@bazzakeegan2243]

Another excellent presentation Stefan! Keep up the interesting work.........

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks!

[@babofikret]

I am Stefan also

[@babofikret]

@Lenox Croatian jesam srb

[@babofikret]

Jesam Srbin

[@marjanglavan9841]

@Lenox Croatian tako momci bolje nego sranja i rata! 👍

[@walkingwithgiants1]

Great presentation, great content, great channel , thank you, your students are very lucky.

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks! :D

[@SH-jg5zq]

Thank you! ❤

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@hippityhop9522]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

What did he tell you about his experiences? Love to know!

[@hippityhop9522]

@@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).

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for sharing!

[@history2613]

@@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.

[@TheKres7787]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for the additional information.

[@darkomarko6857]

369 Stalingrad!!

[@z000ey]

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...

[@korniXP]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply! Much to be explored about this topic!

[@korniXP]

@@HistoryHustle You are welcome.

[@oreocarlton3343]

Tito was not a croat, nor serb...dont be naive, his accent proves he wasnt originally from this area

[@slekic]

Surprisingly well done! Congrats from a fellow historian. One minor note: Yugoslavia is not pronounced as “Jewgoslavia”. It’s pronounced YOU-go-Slav-ia.

[@johnbatinovic6593]

Reminds of Al Pacino in Scarface the way he pronounced the y as a j. I worked with a Columbian guy, and pronounced words similarly. Chu don’t know what chu vants. Say hello to my little friend. But I guess his first language is not English, but Dutch.

[@renatobegic9983]

My grandpa and his brothers fight for NDH , and one was killed in Bleiburg 45 , you could make a video on that 55k croats were killed.🇭🇷

[@HistoryHustle]

Perhaps in the future.

[@renatobegic9983]

@@HistoryHustle I just wanted to say , If we accept that Jews are burned in Nazi camps and there are no bones and graves , then where are the Graves of Wehermacht , Ustaše , Chetniks , Italians , Albanians , Hungarians , Romans , Bulgarians and other Axis allies , cuz no one has burned us we all know that , many were killed after WW2 but no one speaks about that...

[@HistoryHustle]

Please check the comment section for your last statement.

[@bigman5408]

@@renatobegic9983 Oh come on, they speak about that a lot . It is on Croatian TV all the f.....time. Constant .

[@NoName-fe6ll]

100.000 Croats were killed. And this guy is biased on making videos about how horrible Croats were, dont expect the real history here on this channel

[@Josip9888]

My grandpa's 2 older brothers went with their German friends somewhere. I always assume it was Stalingrad and they never came back. Many Germans lived in Slavonia (Croatia) and Vojvodina (Serbia) like City Apatin is full of old German buildings. They were all forced to go away and many got killed at the end of WW2. My grandpa joined ustase at age 16 and ended up in Bleiburg. There was a saying translated Tito or Ante meaning you actually belong to army whichever comes first in the village. There was no choice. You are dead or you join army. He was lucky to survive it. And I still own his ustasa badge, paper that is proof he was in Bleiburg, and many NDH paperwork. Not because I am nationalist or anything, but to keep part of history and know the truth what happened, at least in area where I live.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for taking the time to write this down. Very interesting to read.

[@Josip9888]

@@HistoryHustle you are welcome, thanks for the content you are sharing. I was lucky that I had him to listen stories from his time. Like one he said when Germans started to flee , they were sinking their own ships in Danube river because they were to slow and Russians were advancing to fast. He said one was sinked just a few hundred of meters from where I live, and it was supposed to be full of valuable stuff. And river hides secret of many unfortunate German soldiers who got killed. I would love they check bottom of the river (if it is possible at all due to speed of river flow and vision underwater). Anyway thanks for your History channel and keep up amazing work :D

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@bigman5408]

Many Italians were forced to go away from Istra and Dalmacija. I feel sorry for them, I guess many of them just wanted to live a normal life.

[@history2613]

@@Josip9888 My great grandfather and my 2xgreat uncle were also in the ustase in which my 2x great uncle died in Maribor, Slovenia (Beliburg Massacare). In relation to your statement that you have his papers, badges and NDH paperworks, do you know how to find this type of proof for my ancestors. They were from the villages of Prolog and Tribić in Livno.

[@delmatadelmata4511]

I am from croatia, you have really good and Objectively explained, good job.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you!

[@josephcro2138]

Nice try serb

[@kresimirvalentak1946]

@Clint R Ma ti si panj! Ne lupetaj!

[@poki580]

@Clint R you do know that todays dalmatia is the first teritorry to be called croatia

[@poki580]

@Clint R i dont know what is your problem or what kind of myths have you being fed but dalmatia has always being the romance speaking cities, croatia was todays dalmatia and everything north of sava was slavonia, that has obviously changed today mainly thanks to the turkish incursions, capital of croatia was in dalmatia for centuries then it slowly moved north, escpecially with the loss of southern teritorries to the ottoman turks

[@bosniansr1499]

My Great Uncle was in the 369th Division, he survived Stalingrad and later fought in his hometown, later in 1944/45 he was captured somewhere on the Adriatic coast and shot by the partisans. He was a Hauptmann.

[@pongo1289]

Great video, well balanced coverage of not an easy or simple subject. While reading about history of (my home) Dubrovnik county in Croatia, I was surprised by relatively high number of young local people that went to fight and die in Russia, and Stalingrad. Mostly those were very young peasants from poor and remote villages, that even locals would struggle to find today. What's motivated them to join and go to fight in Russia is a puzzling question, but no doubt that they were disillusion at the end. It's interesting to notice that the last commander of the Legion in Stalingrad was colonel Mesic (former officer of Yugoslav Royal Army, than officer in Domobranstvo) survived the battle, fell in to Soviet captivity, was made commander of Soviet established First Yugoslav Brigade, sent with the unit back to Yugoslavia to fight Germans, suffered heavy losses, after which Mesic was retired and lived peacefully in Zagreb until 1982.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you for your reply!

[@DogoPit]

My entire family were partisans, yet my grandmothers brother was above politics and died in Stalingrad December 1942

[@t.jjohnson6317]

Great vid .Thank-you

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks!

[@JohnnoDordrecht]

Great video Stefan !

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@Guadalajara1937]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Could be! Can't tell. Thanks for sharing.

[@monkas1833]

Keep on making these videos on these smaller formations and nations, these are really interesting

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to read 👍

[@ryrify]

Never disappointed when I click on your excellent channel. Awesome work.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you.

[@icecoffee1361]

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 👍🏻

[@HistoryHustle]

Many many many thanks for your support and kind words! :)

[@Howtomakegamecards]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Can't tell. But thanks for your reply!

[@mkailov13]

I doubt Germany would name an infantry division after an all black unit famous for killing Germans.

[@domba2224]

the saddest part is that we were more independent during ww2 than right now

[@HistoryHustle]

I doubt that...

[@Milan76Zg]

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.

[@alenanic9546]

Jesi ti to Milane mislio na jugoslaviju.

[@donneto3949]

@@Milan76ZgQuisling je kolaborirao Norvešku sa Nijemcima protiv svoje nezavisne države. Pavelić je stukao krvoločnu Jugoslavsku diktaturu i stvorio nezavisnu hrvatsku državu u svojim povijesnim granicama sa Istrom i Zadrom što su tek došli 43 kad je Italija izdala sebe. To je velika razlika. Prije je Milan Nedic bio Qisling

[@user-ev1sh7qi9u]

Greetings from Croatia! All my grandfathers were in the partisans. One was previously in the Domobrani, but he was disgusted by a speech by Ante Pavelic and left to go to fought for the partisans. The other was forced in the Italian army, he fought in El Alamein but surrendered to the British, he got sent to Yugoslav partisans upon his request. Great video!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. Interesting to read!

[@ivancosic926]

Was your grandfather disgusted by partisan deeds?

[@JohnnyReb1976]

I'm Croatian, and this video was impartial and objective. There was no "good" side on the Balkans in ww2.

[@kainname4585]

I'm not dure if there was a good side but the Ustascha clearly was on the bad side.

[@sjortoni5760]

@@kainname4585 not really

[@kainname4585]

@@sjortoni5760 I have just seen a comment from you denying the genocides committed by croats. I don't think I want to argue with you.

[@sjortoni5760]

@@kainname4585 because its true my friend

[@HistoryHustle]

@Kain: agree.

[@8000296]

Another great Sunday! Top

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you.

[@nikkibaugher2427]

Great lecture Professor. Its good to hear about the axis minor countries that fought on the front and what their experiences were like. A+

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for watching this one!

[@mathiaspoelman1493]

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!

[@HistoryHustle]

Zie links in beschrijving onder kopje VIDEO.

[@mathiaspoelman1493]

@@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

[@blasramode4735]

Great vid... Fun fact: I think NDH never declared war on USSR,but did to USA.

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

[@korniXP]

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.

[@osa-mv4iv]

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

[@YeahMusicThatMoves]

Hrvati su najhrabriji narod na svetu ne zato sto se nicega ne boje vec zato sto se nicega ne stide..

[@osa-mv4iv]

@@YeahMusicThatMoves i kakve to ima veze s ovim filmom

[@HistoryHustle]

Sounds like an interesting read!

[@secretaband5013]

My great grandfather died in Stalingrad. He was a Bosnian Croat who was a mere shepherd who didnt know much about the nazis. He fought on their side for he was a great believer in god and wanted to fight the communists who, as he says in his letter, oppressed the Croatian people and their fate.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@davidraper5798]

Another one of those interesting little subjects, well presented and not so little either. Please keep up the good work.

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@01real1]

1:20 - The 'Independent' State of Croatia was as 'independent' as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) is democratic.' Excellent point here!

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@filipkralj2618]

this is no different in modern Croatia, EU and Germans tell us what to do, when to do it and how to do it...that is a price of being a small country

[@horouathos8199]

It was more "independent" than the current Croatia under the EU and the American protectorate. There is no sovereign country in Europe today, although France is best positioned if that were to ever change in the near future. Russia as well if we are to consider them Europe.

[@tradingcommunityslovenija1]

Do you maybe think you could do a video on slovenians in ww2 someday? Thanks for amazing work, Tine

[@HistoryHustle]

Someday yes, can't tell when though.

[@sokolski369.8]

White guard (Belogardisti/Bela garda)

[@johnhemphill1938]

This is really cool, few talk about them.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks!

[@russeljohn3471]

Interesting video, thanks for posting.

[@HistoryHustle]

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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".

[@HistoryHustle]

Check, thanks!

[@TheWilferch]

The Yugoslav "situation" during WWII is an extremely diverse and complicated story with many factions and questions of "whose-side" these factions were on, ....vs a timeline. In essence, Yugoslavia had an internal 3-way civil war going on, while WWII was raging, and groupings and associations were made with the major WWII players along the way. Complex and confusing......

[@johnbatinovic6593]

I'm still trying to piece together what was going on in the lower Neretva River area. Both my grandfathers lost their lives there. Dalmatia in that area was under Italian occupation. Just inside Hercegovina, Ustasha and Chetniks and Partizan and Italian forces were all active. My grandmothers house, village and church were all burned down by Chetniks. I don't think they returned to their village until after 1945 or 1946 (minus my grandfather and his brother).

[@TheWilferch]

@@johnbatinovic6593 ...I too am piecing together WWII data on issues and family members, etc.... best of luck in your searches.

[@johnbatinovic6593]

@@TheWilferch On a visit to Metkovic in 1972, they showed me the tree my other grandfather was executed by the communists (no trials or anything). He had a big parcel of land, a vineyard, and a metal factory. I think they were doing collectivization there after the war.

[@TheWilferch]

@@johnbatinovic6593 ....capturing, and recording any history you find, is a woerthwhile endeavor...not just for you but for your family and for posterity.

[@DomXereX]

It’s not that simple, this video is actually a very simplified view. Roughly speaking, it is roughly close to the truth. DO NOT forget that the anti-fascist movement in the former Yugoslavia was the strongest in Croatia and the Independent State of Croatia.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. I'm very curious what you think of tomorrow's video where I'll talk more about Croatia in WW2.

[@DomXereX]

@@HistoryHustle HuuuH! It is still a very embarrassing "story" in Croatia very susceptible to manipulation and abuse. All the warring parties (Germans, Ustashas, Chetniks and Partisans) committed mass and very cruel crimes. The worst thing is that there is an exaggeration and reduction (depending on the side) of the number of victims of crime, both during the war and after the war. The problem is that we have victims of both fascist and communist terror. It is often a political and ideological issue. Most average citizens would like this chapter of history to be objectively examined and presented without accusations. Show real numbers without ideology.

[@DomXereX]

@@HistoryHustle During WWII, Croatia was the largest barracks in the world. Men and women were mobilized by Germans, Italians, Ustashas, Chetniks and Partisans. The largest number of deaths during the war in the former Yugoslavia is from the territory of the Independent State of Croatia. In the famous battle of Sutjeska alone, over 50% were Dalmatians (one province in Croatia). Over 20% of the population was active in a military formation in one of the warring parties. That is why even today there are a lot of hidden weapons among the population that are thus protected from "the others" because often the winner takes revenge where they kill entire families and entire settlements. In our country, the war is a very bloody event and without a shred of mercy. In our country, it is not as simple a question as in the West. In our country, it is a question of bare survival for whole groups of people. That is how it is everywhere in the Balkans.

[@DomXereX]

@@HistoryHustle Link, please!

[@bigman5408]

@@DomXereX Yep, Mali and Veli Iz gave a lot of partisans. Even the Catholic nuns were prying for them.

[@Pallas911]

The only camp for children in Europe, to know their heroism!

[@HistoryHustle]

Actually the Germans ran one in Lodz (occupied Poland).

[@mpravica]

As the NDH ("Independent State of Croatia) absorbed all of Bosnia which is where the Bosnian Muslims resided, they were easily recruited into the Handzar division and also willing participants in the mass genocide against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies during WWII.

[@HistoryHustle]

Talked about that in the video.

[@DragonBlue68]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting to read. Do you know more of your grandfathers experiences during the war?

[@DragonBlue68]

​@@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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks for sharing!

[@slavenrasic2173]

@@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.

[@history2613]

@@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.

Very interesting video. Keep it going !!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your message!

[@patrickbeerens7320]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

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.

[@predragstojanovic2149]

The greatest crimes in the history of mankind were committed by the Ustasha against the Serbian people, the Serbs were more brutally tortured and liquidated only because they were Serbs, the Catholic Church with Stepinac supported the crime.

[@HistoryHustle]

What is the reason you point it out this way? Lots of Serbs do love to emphazise how evil the Ustasha were. I agree. When I then talk about Serbian crimes in the 1990s they grow mad.

[@predragstojanovic2149]

@@HistoryHustle Don't talk nonsense Ethnic Cleansing was done by Croats with Serbs in 1990, if you know History you will confirm it well.

[@awesomeboy4353]

Stefan what is your favourite weapon and tank of ww2

[@HistoryHustle]

Can't tell for tanks. As for weapons, hard to say actually. In design I most like the Dutch Hembrug M.95.

[@66kbm]

@@HistoryHustle Maybe contact the Tank Museum Bovington UK to do a Top 5 Tanks? Would be interesting.

[@kickit59]

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!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks. Do check TIK History and his video serie in Stalingradfor that.

[@paulconnors2078]

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?

[@HistoryHustle]

Covered here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ22iZSgfc6Di7c And here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5vGf3Rma6mGmKs

[@tomdonahue4224]

If the Narrator ever sits down with Mark Felton for a Pint, I will buy, just to listen to the conversation.

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@anglowarrior7970]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks. Armchair History made a good video about the topic.

[@bilkobeli3635]

AWESOME VIDEO .

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@thegametwins7553]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

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).

[@Desmo900SS]

Excellent presenting skills !!

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@GunnyKeith]

Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing sir. Outstanding job sir.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks!

[@GRGA4200]

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!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@z000ey]

There is one more: 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" - 7. SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen", comprised of primarily Volksdeutche from Yugoslavia but also a lot of Croats (many forcibly rectruited). Served and did lots of atrocities in the Balkans

[@HistoryHustle]

Check 👍

[@mihajlozaric6957]

There was only Volksdeutsche,and some Officers from Germany

[@mihajlozaric6957]

Prinz Eugen burned croatian Villages and killed Civilians ,. Pavelic complained to Hitler about this i think.

[@holgernarrog962]

A civil war is usually predestined for attrocities. In Yugoslavia all parties communists, tschetniks, croates comitted attrocities. How would you have acted in this atmosphere?

[@mihajlozaric6957]

Komplekse Sache hatte Verwandte auf allen Seiten , einige sogar spätere offizielle Nationalhelden ,andere in Vergessenheit geraten natürlich

[@konradson]

Some of these Nazi-Croats came to Spain after the war. Maks Luburić, stablished in Carcaixent (Valencia, South East of Spain), saying he was Tito's Colleague, who had issues with him, and decided to come to Spain, scaping from Comunism. Later, he introduced a tenager as his nephew, to local youth, asking them to be kind to him. He had built an industry there, so many youngsters in Carcaixent, were willing to do so (or their parents). A few years later, that boy dissapeared, Luburic was dead...

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for the additional information.

[@haifaisrail2016]

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.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. I'm gonna take a look if I can add subtitles.

[@haifaisrail2016]

@@HistoryHustle Thank you very much! Your students are lucky to have such a wonderful teacher!

[@rememberedtoys]

Great work!

[@HistoryHustle]

thanks

[@petercroves8562]

si the Croats were part of the German army, like the 10,000 dutch who were, but they had no choice in joining, the Croats did, but how many Dutch and Croats came back from the eastern front?

[@TheKres7787]

in "Croatian Legion" book, it is said that around 1000 survived of 369th, not sure about the Dutch

[@HistoryHustle]

I made two videos about Dutch Waffen-SS soldiers (more will follow) #1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mILPd2OflpJ0eKM #2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4mvm4WtfKyrarc

[@00MSG]

Great. Waiting for the Handzar division to be covered.

[@HistoryHustle]

One day!

[@sergeantmajorgross4461]

a video on some of the collaborationist movements that worked with the Japanese would be interesting, especially lesser known ones like the mongol royalty and the Russian fascists, great video as always

[@HistoryHustle]

Yes, this will be made. Can't tell when though. Expect 2021 somewhere.

[@MrKakibuy]

Only the RLA were considered trustworthy enough to be made into a combat battalion, the vast majority of Hiwis served only in support battalions and they did it primarily to avoid beint sent to POW camps which were death camps.

[@sergeantmajorgross4461]

@@HistoryHustle sounds good

[@kresimirherbaj4990]

Moskva 1812g, Galicija 1916g, Staljingrad 1943g 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷

[@HistoryHustle]

Not sure what you mean.

[@kresimirherbaj4990]

Three times on the estrern front 4 if the prestent is rekoned with a new ally in poland

[@Josip9888]

Ustase got bad name after the ww2. Name ustaša literally means one who stood up. (Ustati - stand up) from tirany and fight for the rights from long lasting oppression.

[@HistoryHustle]

That's how they portrayed themselves, but at the end they commit grave brutalities.

[@JOPSSBBB]

Komunisticka laz! I Ruska doktrina skupa sa izmisljenom SPC.

[@andreasvoss4931]

Very good and interesting video. I am a German who served in the Bundeswehr and did two peace keeping missions in Croatia 1998 and 1999....(IFOR and SFOR)....many Croatians I talked to were NOT happy with the Americans in their country but appreciated us Germans to be there ....I never understood that but maybe it's still the mindset that we once fought on the same side....good job with your video...👍

[@HistoryHustle]

Very interesting to read, thanks for sharing 👍

[@andreasvoss4931]

@@northernstar4811 I was stationed in Zagreb Croatia ...both times.....in my communications unit we had one American soldier....Fuhrer the ambulance and a whole US signal squad was with us im the same barracks in Croatia..first time I was there with IFOR ...second time with SFOR.....

[@zeljkodejanovic8786]

You could talk about Austro-Hungary, the beginning and the end of it. About the hero Gavrilo Princip and his assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 of the Austrian heir to the throne who was also the occupier of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[@HistoryHustle]

Sure interesting stuff for in the future.

[@horouathos8199]

He was the rightful heir to the throne. Princip is not a hero, but a murderer of Europe.

[@zeljkodejanovic8786]

@@horouathos8199 He was not legitimate to own Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was an occupier like Hitler was an occupier. If someone had killed Hitler in Paris, would he have been a terrorist or a hero?

[@Pajdas610]

​@@zeljkodejanovic8786 Kako imate obraza ubit našeg prijestolonasljednika i onda još govorit da ste nas oslobodili? Gavrilo Princip je vaš heroj samo zato kaj je osigural srpsku vlast nad južnim Slavenima. Austro-Ugarska je bila raj na zemlji u usporedbi s Kraljevinom Jugoslavijom.

[@Pajdas610]

@@horouathos8199 Amen brate, neka mu Bog oprosti.

[@Budra105]

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"

[@HistoryHustle]

I covered the Yugoslav Wars in a combined episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKOwiWWYbbF_qrs

[@Budra105]

@@HistoryHustle thanks, didn't know that

[@phillipkuns3]

Just like the "United" States of America.

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@alswann2702]

Deo vindice.

[@justincase9842]

Its a nice presented historical facts. But I must correct you in detail. As I'm informed Croatian legion ( 369. Pojačana divizija, also known as 'Devils division' ) wasn't official part of regular Croatian army 'Domobrani' but it was purely volunteer division. It was because NDH signed treaties of Rome ( 1941 ) with Italy. Being volunteer was only way for Croatians to participate within Wehrmacht. There where many reasons why people joined division. Among them Croatians wanted to get trained by Germans and maybe get their equipment. Germans were seen as technologically advanced and that was great opportunity for Croatians to get some knowledge. Also some interesting facts that were told to me by people from that era during the war in Croatia. Germans were typically great mannered, decent and didn't harassed local population but on the other side Italians didn't have good army discipline and they loved local women :D.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing this information.

[@bigman5408]

Moj stric je bio u partizanima. Neko u selu je to rekao Talijanima. Dosli Talijani zapaliti kucu, moj dida kaze Janjo daj vina , sira ,prsuta vojnicima. Znao je talijanski jezik jer je bio u logoru u 1 svjeskom ratu. Talijani popili ,pojeli i otisli. Da su bili Njemci bila bi druga prica.

[@nejckoscak8421]

You could make a video on "Domobranci" they where anti communism, anti partizan and pro nazi mylitaria in Slovenia they had a support by Germans and Italians by fiting partisans. Could be an intresting video.

[@HistoryHustle]

Perhaps something for in the future 👍

[@noftin811]

My grandparent(croat) he fought in stalingrad and survived

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing. What do you know about his experiences?

[@marcoskehl]

Thank you! Dank je! Hvala vam!

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@Erwin3333]

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

[@neutralzagreb4145]

Hey great video!!! Like your presentation of it:) ofcourse Croats were very brave soldiers

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your message!