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

[@sarunda2003]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@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

[@WestfaliaStuff]

Criminally underrated channel

[@HistoryHustle]

Feel free to share! :)

[@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.

[@walkingwithgiants1]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

Many thanks! :D

[@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.

[@tada869]

Great vid Stefan! As usual. Great work!

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@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

[@samogusle]

@@dakedakinson64 In a fake (serbian) history book ;)

[@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

[@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.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SH-jg5zq]

Thank you! ❤

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@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.

[@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.

[@tom_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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@neutralzagreb4145]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your message!

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!

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@f0nt]

Next time talk about the Estonian & Latvian legions ?

[@HistoryHustle]

Perhaps something for the future.

[@major-Mihailo-Madzarevic]

They " fought " against civilians in Jasenovac.

[@HistoryHustle]

?

[@major-Mihailo-Madzarevic]

@@HistoryHustle Do your little research about what Ustasha " legion " did in Jasenovac, and many other similar places across the Independant state of Croatia during the ww2 with Serbs , Jewish and Gipsies..

[@user-gv7fu2sm5j]

The father of my grandmother was taken by the germans against his will... he survived the war and all the yugoslav massacers. The father of my grandfather also was taken by the germans and had to fight in the homeguard against partisans. In 1944 he ran over to the partisans just to survive. Nobody of my family wanted this war but everyone was involved. Also looking at the comments I agree we did many bad things but people seem to forget all the massacers done by partisans. My grandmother told me her mother who lived at the border to slovenia how she heard the shots at night in 1945 and 1946. The partisans killed everyone that was croatian. They were monsters.

[@HistoryHustle]

Sad story.

[@lynchmyteam]

My grand grandpa was a member of the 369th Devil Division!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing. Did he make it out aliv? What do you know about his experiences?

[@generalposlijebitke6688]

@@HistoryHustle OK, I see this can confuse so I will try to explain... We are talking about 3 different units here... We have only true Devil Division which was 42. Austro-Hungary Homeguard Infantry Division made of Croats... We have 369. Reinforced Legion that fight in Stalingard and never get that nickname... And we have 369 Infantry Division, named Devil in honour of 42. Infantry Division from WW1, that was made in 1942in Austria from new recrutes and few surviving memners of 369 Reinforced Legion. It suppose to go again on eastern front but never did, and remain in Croatia to fight partisans. I believe that is the Division Marijan talk about.

[@selecterjd9785]

Did you mean "great grandpa?"

[@bonk2540]

One of my Great Grandfathers(Slavonians/Posavians Croats) was a member of "369 Vražija divizija"..far as i know he never came back from the war in Eastern Front as there is no grave but only a Picture..while my other Great Grandfather who was in Bosnian SS divsion as a Croat known as "Handžar" he eventually as far as i ve found out from my Grandpa and Family stayed in Bosanska Posavina with other members of Croats/Muslims and died in the last heroic ww2 battle in europe known as "Odžak" defending his Croat Homeland unlike most of Croats who cowardly switched and continued to butcher own people..there are still graves of my Family in Posavina where 50% of them got killed 1945 for not switching sides to Communism only to get betrayed few years later by "Croatian President"..My region and neighbourgh one is two places who never gave up on their Croat spirit even during Yugoslavia they identified as a Croats..last thing im gonna say is Berlin pao Odžak nije,slava rodnoj grudi Hrvatskoj ;))..great video and greets from Slavonia,Hrvatska :).

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@selecterjd9785]

What's your native language? You speak English very well. Informative content, well done.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks. I am Dutch 🇳🇱

[@dentoncrimescene]

Always a thumbs up from me.

[@HistoryHustle]

GREAT :)

[@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 👍

[@slaytanicc]

What country are you from? :)

[@HistoryHustle]

Netherlands.

[@HistoryHustle]

🇳🇱

[@kidfromcropu2812]

there was nothing independent about it,other then name,satelite state,or colaborationist,however,it was the first Croatian state ever since 1102 when Croatia entered personal union with Hungary and lost independence

[@HistoryHustle]

Now the country has its independence.

[@kidfromcropu2812]

and its worse them ever

[@horouathos8199]

@@HistoryHustle No, it doesn't. Use your own convoluted "North Korea" logic to come to that conclusion, you petty conformist.

[@WilliamJohnwon1522]

And it remains the most racially pure country perhaps in the world.

[@HistoryHustle]

Perhaps.

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

It is not, I am from Croatia, there is little to no racism here and we have lots of Serbs and Bosnians. If you are talking about black people, Asians...etc...yes we have very few of them but the reasons are economical.

[@WilliamJohnwon1522]

@@kvarnerinfoTV I heard and read stories of 250 thousand Serbs being ethnic cleansed in the 90s in the break up of Yugoslavia Thanks for the useful information. I'll keep what you have told me in mind.

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

@@WilliamJohnwon1522 yes, that is true, many Serbs fled or were "encouraged" to flee by criminal Croatian government under HDZ which is still in power. Breakup of Yugoslavia was orchestrated by Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian leaderships - similar reasons to Soviet collapse. Serbian propaganda was saying Croatians wanted to repeat ww2 while Croatian propaganda was claiming Croatian Serbs want to partition Croatia and put Croatia under Serbian rule - while nations were divided (Divide et impera) individuals were making huge profit - like our Croatian "general" Čermak who was plummer up until the 90s but then became first man for oil business and general, other generals were waiting tables, heavy machinery operators...etc. All under blessing of Croatian president Franjo Tuđman whose family also got filthy rich. Same was happening in Serbia. Serbs were afraid because of Serbian porpaganda and vice versa so Croatian Serbs really proclaimed parts of Croatia theirs (Siege of Vukovar and its demise). At the end all nations ended up poor and robbed. Unfortunately HDZ is still in power in Croatia and I can't even begin to tell you what criminal organisation is HDZ even today (and it was form the 1990). YOu can't get job in any state run company or organisation if you are not a memeber, they control everything, they work for banks and big corporations against people, all public works are rotting from corruption - recently they started building 6 kilometers of cable car line - for 70 million euros 0_0, one chiffon was priced over 6000$, highest possible price is 30$. SO the rig public works contract competition - every single time and company that gets it overprice it to the moon and back sharing profits with corrupt officials - every single time. If you owe 10$, do not worry we in Croatia have legal loan shark companies which will take care that 10$ becomes 1000$ "legaly", recently mother and daughter were evicted, their apartment sold for nothing - lowest price (70 000$) on also rigged auction to pay of 1600$ debt. That is Croatia today - country where mafia has its own state. And this what I have told you is just tip of the iceberg...it is exactly the same in Serbia and Bosnia even thou I think Croatia is most extreme in whole Europe.

[@WilliamJohnwon1522]

@@kvarnerinfoTV I heard there was foreign influence as well. I heard German intelligence, stirred it up between the nations of Yugoslavia in the early 80s and the same people trained the Kosovo Liberation Army to help with the ethnic cleansing, a terrorist group, similar to the IRA , which I heard, went on through into the 21st century. Some of the Serbs, must have just wondered back into the Croatia since though, along with some Bosnian people. Something else I heard and read, was that there was a lot of close friendships between the different peoples of Yugoslavia, before the war irrupted. You also don't hear much about the Yugo car company, just about all of the industry has been replaced, or taken over by the EU, mainly German, I'm sorry to say. Speaking of British companies being taken over. Mini Cooper and Rolls Royce are owned by BMW now. And another thing, I heard that Joe Biden, who is not the president elect quite yet , had some hand in the corruption, during the 90s.

[@ivanl7449]

2:46 these are ustashe and serbian chetniks. sometimes they collaborated on german request

[@vedranr.glavina7667]

Really? Stalin told them to do so? This is the first time I hear this.

[@HistoryHustle]

Indeed.

[@pavaopsihistal6989]

yeah people who dont know something about history often say that ustaše and četniks worked together on daily basis, but the truth is they only worked together on germans request mostly on operations against partizans, and those četniks if im not mistaken were never draza mihajlovics cetniks

[@salesale5774]

Kroatian propaganda.The Chetniks were an internationally recognized anti-fascist forces by all Allies. Draza Mihajlovic had permanent British and American military military missions in his staff from 1941 until 1944. He was awarded the highest American military decoration by Harry Truman for rescuing about 500 Allied pilots.This famous rescue operation was called ''Operation Halyard'' and today is celebrated in the village of Pranjani in Serbia, in the presence of members of the US Embassy in Serbia and Serbian officials.

[@salesale5774]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2XJnZqPns2XfKM

[@disasterzone5143]

Ante looks like moe from stooges.

[@panzertracks]

A mean one at that.

[@HistoryHustle]

moe from stooges?

[@alswann2702]

@@HistoryHustle Moe Howard was a famous American film comedian of the 1930s, '40s and '50s. Google "Three Stooges." He actually played Hitler in three separate short comedies.

[@panzertracks]

@@HistoryHustle he looks more like an angry shemp than moe. just saying.

[@disasterzone5143]

You got me their history view. Shemp with moe haircut?

[@donaldmcmillan512]

Diepite the accent this guy knows his stuff as my dad worked at a concentration camp I think it was the one nearest to achwich he has picktuers of him in his waffen ss man he hid it from us but told we some of the worst stuff I’ve ever heard or seenof god blues the people ov the universe as it’s hard to live a normal life

[@hybrydchumur]

He doesn’t know anything. All lies.

[@ivanturudic1885]

What a garbage of show

[@HistoryHustle]

Please explain.

[@jurebarchgliasis640]

@@HistoryHustle you spewing comunistic propaganda. I ask you about jasenovac and that there are no phorenzical proofs of genocide and you delete my comment. And all i say was truth. You my friend are intelectual coward.

[@HistoryHustle]

I see.

[@s.t.lacroix372]

Nice vid on yet another rather forgotten part of history. Ustaca's behaved like deranged psychopaths against Serb/Yugoslav forces and civilians.. Are there any known war crimes commited by the Croatian units in the Soviet Union?

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply. In my sources I didn't find anything like this. I was wondering it myself, but haven't read about it...

[@sjortoni5760]

There wasnt a genocide by croats at all

[@s.t.lacroix372]

@@sjortoni5760 Well they tried hard.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Serbs_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia

[@sjortoni5760]

@@s.t.lacroix372 you are using wikipedia as a source...

[@s.t.lacroix372]

@@sjortoni5760 Well this may surprise you but I know Croatia well, I was there during the Yugoslav war in the 90s.. So YES I do know about Siroki Brijeg, Vitez, Tuzla, and what I also saw is that the people there live in the past. Educate yourself man and stop spewing propaganda, there was a genocide

[@yugoslavia_operator128]

Shame that Domobrans were disbanded after WW2 and it can be seen why, Domobrans existed long before WW2. It was Croatian National Army we can say in Kingdom of Yugoslavia but also Austria-Hungary. Just remember being Domobran and Ustasha are two different things. One is alright but being Ustasha is being disgrace to your country. After the was many Croatians who were in Ustasha fled from country to US, their offsprings live there now. The Domobrans however were other thing, mostly they were left alone by later system and were allowed into society

[@flipflop1445]

KAKVI DOMOBRANI ?! I KAKO IH POISTOVJETITI S DOMOBRANIMA OD RANIJE?! DOMOBRANI U NDH SU SLUZILI NDH ! TO NEMA OPRAVDANJA ! A IZBORA SU IMALI ! UZ ZRTVE ,AL DA , IMALI SU IZBORA! TOLIKO ! SMRT FASIZMU !

[@yugoslavia_operator128]

@@flipflop1445 Tacno, ali Domobrani su bili samo obicni vojnici, koji su se nasi na pogresnom mestu u pogrssno vreme

[@biglebowsky6586]

@@yugoslavia_operator128 Domobrani mu u Hrvatskoj dođu kao Vermaht u Njemačkoj. A Ustaše kao SS. Ali ni Domobrani nisu uopšte čisti bili što se tiče zločina, čak i da se ne uzme u obzir što su služili NDH.

[@flipflop1445]

@@biglebowsky6586 ONAJ KO JE BIO U SLUZBI ZLOTVORA , KRIV JE JEDNAKO I NEMA OPRAVDANJA ! SVE SI U PRAVU ! SF !

[@biglebowsky6586]

@Wernher von Braun Moguće, ali treba se uzeti u obzir da su Partizani zavladali čitavom Jugom a Ustaše i Domobrani samo dijelom, pa su partizani bili u prilici pobiti mnogo više ljudi. Od Partizana su najgore prošli domaći Italijani u Istri i Dalmaciji i Nijemci u Vojvodini. Potpuno su etnički očišćeni. A i mimo njih svako ko nije bio bar malo po volji Partizana mogao je završiti na vješalima. Ali za Četnike i Domobrane koji su prešli u Partizane do određenog roka garantovano je pomilovanje pa su oni relativno jeftino prošli.

[@ivanpoljic1790]

What is notorious about NDH ?

[@madmaxmarston942]

ma bučka gluposti sere bez veze

[@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

[@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

[@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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💪

[@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.

[@kababyenoh]

Always a pleasure to hear from my favorite Dutchman.

[@HistoryHustle]

😁👍

[@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.....

[@генералратко]

Most Terrorised Legion

[@HistoryHustle]

Please explain.

[@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?

[@johnhemphill1938]

This is really cool, few talk about them.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks!

[@michaelweeks9317]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@tinekustec483]

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)

[@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! :)

[@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! 😂

[@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! 👍

[@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.

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

You should do a video of you actually teaching a class. Would be interesting.

[@HistoryHustle]

Nah trust me, most topics I have to teach are boring. That's why I made this channel.

[@brunopalkovic1672]

NDH(Nezavisna Država Hrvatska)Independent State od Croatia. I realy wouldn't call it independent.The reason is because Ante Pavelić went on and signed a lot of politic papers with Adolf Hitler and Benito Musolini.A lot of our coast got anexed by Italy.Germany ate Slovenia for Breakfest.Hungary also took a bit of chunk. At least NDH got Part od Vojvodina and whole Bosnia.It still wasn't independent because people didn't like the fact that the Axis tok some of our teritory. Also Axis soldiers could just walk through our country for free.And i wouldn't call that independent right?People got mad because of it.This was also a reason why "Domobrani"(HomeGuards)were form Their goal: free Croatia form fascisam,take back the anexed teritory and keep Croatia going as a free state.

[@HistoryHustle]

It wasn't independent indeed.

[@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!

[@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

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Another great video History Hustle! Keep it up m8!

[@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

[@tomdonahue4224]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

🍻

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@stoggafllik]

Yes. Communism has destroyed the land

[@johncataldo5529]

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

[@TheFDM79]

2:44 on the left it's a chetnik not Ustasa or German soldier !

[@HistoryHustle]

ok

[@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!

[@tom_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.

[@teetman322]

The Ustasha did some horrible war crimes, but as we say here, 'The truth is a deep water'. They were a cornered beast surrounded by ideological fanatics, survival of the nation was the only driving force. And there would be NO Croatia today, probably Bosnia as well, if not for the mass murderers Ustasha. Tragic. 20th century really was shitty, 21st is not going any better it seems.

[@HistoryHustle]

I doubt if the crimes of the ustasha contributed to the eventual independence of Croatie in the early 1990s.

[@teetman322]

@@HistoryHustle I love exploring history, and I also know the situation from that geographical area first hand. I know it sounds brutal to accept that, but that is an unfortunate historical fact. Ustasha were a product of tyranny, their nationalism was built by foreign oppression and threat of extinction of an entire nation and it's people. The situation was so desperate in fact that all other political options were exhausted. Stjepan Radić was killed for trying to make a compromise and a republic where all nationalities will be equally respected. Many Croatian scientists, artists, writers, important people, were arrested, murdered, and hundreds of thousands were forced into exile because they lost a war they didn't want to fight. They lost a war that their subjugators forced them in. Croatians didn't have any political power in Austria Hungary, and just when they started to reform, the war destroyed them. Then, in Serbian kingdom, they had no power at all, Croats weren't allowed even in the military officers or army, the national identity of a Croat was forcefully and brutally replaced by Yugoslav identity, which was a Serb nationalist hiding under a compromise of a Yugoslav name. Even the language changed, even today it's different than what it was 19th century. Then bolshevism rose and the Serbian aristocracy had enemies in their own people, the communists. It as a collapsing state. Most Croatian leaders were dead, apart from that one man that predicted this would happen and thought Radić was naive. Pavelić knew if Croatia wanted to survive it needed allies from outside. Looking at the geopolitical placement of Croatia in the early 20th century, there literally was no other option. Italy wanted to subjugate Croatia, Hungary had claims in the north, Serbia was already ruling them and Bolshevism was ever growing from the east. The justified paranoia of a Croatian at that time is what made Ustasha prosper, and to in truth, historically, Ustasha were the minority. Now let us assume Ustasha didn't do the biding of the Nazi regime and went their own way. I think that the fact that Italy supported Serbian chetniks against the Ustasha even though Italy and Serbia were enemies says a lot. Mussolini already subjugated parts of the coastline, massacred people in Istria, a land that never belonged to state of Italy until after it was stolen after WW1. Croatia would be ripped apart between world powers, genocided and have their lands appropriated, just like the countless nations that history erased. Doesn't justify it, just explains it from their perspective.

[@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

[@JozaJoza-en3hk]

​@@oreocarlton3343Svaka cast

[@rickymartinis8530]

amigo you know shit about Independent Croatian state.....you know what communists served to the public,which means a lie.Croats were always a cultural population and brave.men

[@HistoryHustle]

Many Croats feel anger when I talk about the NDH. Don't get me wrong: also the communist partisans did terrible stuff. I do believe the Ustasha were worse.

[@rickymartinis8530]

@Ivan Cro za dom i poglavnika

[@yan-cro5857]

13.12.2020,died last soldier 369.p.p. - lived in Croatia.

[@HistoryHustle]

Interesting, thank you for sharing this.

[@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

[@aleksandarj.8369]

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

[@osa-mv4iv]

@@aleksandarj.8369 i kakve to ima veze s ovim filmom

[@HistoryHustle]

Sounds like an interesting read!

[@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).

[@antemaric98]

🇭🇷❤️

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@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.

[@justtracie8636]

Always learn something from your videos. Thank you

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@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......

[@PeacetimePuma]

Liked the vid, gave it a thumbs up. Thanks as always for your dedication!

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to hear, many thanks for these kind words :)

[@RafoBobanZDS]

This topic is the subject of many controvesies and endless debates, but some facts must not be ignored. The winner of WW2 in Western Balkans were communist partisans and as victors they wrote the history. This history was official history of Yugoslavia and it was learned in schools and universities and for 50 years it has been labelled as "truth". Yugoslavia was a western world's artificial twice miserably failed project that both times that existed ended in blood and violence. Yugoslavian project from the early 20th century was aimed to create a yugoslavian nation and state that would blend all small slavic nations of the Balkans. Unfortunately for creators of this hideous and dreadful idea, some nations had their genetic, historical and cultural heritage a thousand years before their Yugoslav idea. Croats were residents of western Balkans since 7th century, and they had their prosperous kingdom there during the 10th century. After that Croatia joined Hungary in personal union. Hungary then joined Austria and became Austria-Hungary that existed until 1918. So that's basically almost a thousand years for Croats without an independent country. After WW1 Croatian and other southern Slavs' lands "joined" Serbian kingdom. Rather they were annexed by the victorious Serbian side due to Serbia's deals with western allies. Croatian and other people were never asked if that's ok and they saw this as an occupation. Anti-union protests were held in Zagreb but they ended in a massacre. Serbia than trough centralisation tried to serbisize non Serbian parts of the Yugoslavian kingdom. All high army men and policemen in Croatia were Serbian. They prosecuted and bullied Croatian people and often killed them. Croatian nationalists were arrested and put to jail, a lot of Croatian scientists were murdered. After a Serb shot down and killed Croatian political leaders in the Belgrade parliament, all political parties were banned and Yugoslavia became a dictatorship. All official names for organisations with Croatia or Croatian in it were banned. One day after that, when it was no longer possible to legally fight for independent Croatia, Pavelić founded Ustasha movement abroad in 1929. Their main goal was creating an independent Croatian state after 900 years of imprisonment. "U" movement was not a fascist, nazi movement but rather Croatian nationalist. In 1941. when Germany invaded Yugoslavia, Pavelic was granted an Independent State of Croatia on a 100,000 square kilometres territory. Croatian state was established but with approx 10% of the population rose against it because Serbs stuck in Croatia would never accept to live in Croatian state. Portions of an army defeated by the Germans organised in Serb populated areas, mostly mountains and hills and started to fight against Croatia. These were the royal army of the king in escape in London, Četniks. They ordinated troughout Croatian state and did everything to disrupt it, ethnically cleansing and butchering troughout all Croat and bosnian muslim villages in their way. After Hitler and Stalin went to war yugoslavian communist partisans joined them. Their main strategy was setting villages on fire, creating miserable homeless people who would eventually join them. They killed and burned catholic priests and anyone who had anything to do with Croatian state. They thought of Croats and Ustashas as foreign servants and fascist occupators. Croats on the other hand thought of them as enemies of the state and prosecuted a lot of Serbs, chetniks and Croatian communists. For the whole war, Partisans actually hid in the woods and here and there did an surprise attack. It was only when Red Army entered Serbia and Belgrade when the Croatian state started to lose the war. There was murders and violence on all sides. Every side had its victims, but after WW2 victorious Partisans eliminated all surviving members of Croatian army and all of the people that had any contact with the Independent State of Croatia that could not escape abroad. Hundreds of thousands of ustashan and Croatian bones lie in numerous pits and hills troughout all of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. New Yugoslavia was again monopolised and dominated by Serbs and they wrote history as if the Bleiburg massacre never happened. They demonized and satanized the losing side as they were the most evil men and state regime that ever existed. The numbers of Jasenovac victims during the peak of that propaganda jumped up to one million! That number that is statistically nonsense is still believed by the majority of Serbs today! They tried digging but they only found croatian soldiers buttons and they stopped digging. This was because Jasenovac was one of the main execution sites in the Bleiburg massacre death marches. So they basically just flipped the numbers of their own victims blaming the Croatian state and regime for it. The Yugoslav butcherers' history became official history of the world. I am very sad for that and have dedicated my life to debunking it. Cheers

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for taking the time to write this down. I realize there are conflicting views about Yugoslavia in WW2 between Croats and Serbs. Soon more about the NDH.

[@RafoBobanZDS]

@Ivan Cro Who are you trying to fool Serbian troll?

[@mrcls7040]

dank je wederom stefan! of is het stephan?

[@HistoryHustle]

Dank! Stefan

[@NorthSouthEast]

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.

[@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

[@zagrepcanin82]

A lots of untrue has been stated here and that is based on serbian propaganda. it was ww2 and life was cheap everywhere. yes,we made some horrific crimes like everyone did and we are ashamed of them but numbers that are circulating are false. ex Yugoslavia researched this topic and concluded that only about 20 000 people died on the territory of NDH by the hand of Ustasa militia or soldiers. The numbers were massively increased due to war reparation demands from Germany. The Ustasa movement has nothing to do with extermination of people....the reason why it has been founded is because of Serbia who btw hates us so much they even started world war because of us...The Great war Nowdays we are valuable memer of NATO and EU and one of safiest countries in the world. and one of most beautiful one and we welcome anyone to come to visit us or to move and live here. Be sure in this...we are dwelling on this territory for past 1500 years and we will continue to be here for 1500y more. before that we ocupied parts of Ukraine,Poland,Czechia and Slovakia. but that is different subject all together. At European continent we have been living for more then 2000y. and in past 1000y we fought russians 3x....they have never won

[@monkas1833]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

Great to read 👍

[@FritzZG1]

as a croatian i can tell you your sources are not 100% accurate

[@HistoryHustle]

So because you are Croatian your claim is valid? You don't explain anything, nor provide good sources. Perhaps start with that? You can find mine in the description below the video.

[@FritzZG1]

let me find my old history schoolbooks and il send you some photos @@HistoryHustle

[@slavkosoldo5778]

Make a video about Bleiburg ?

[@HistoryHustle]

One day 👍

[@sabinachopra3975]

@@HistoryHustle chek Huda Jama In Slovenia

[@franknezevic4385]

Lol! I'm from Croatia!

[@HistoryHustle]

🇭🇷👍

[@davidraper5798]

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

[@HistoryHustle]

👍

[@curseditem8354]

Do not poke the balkan powder keg with a lighter

[@HistoryHustle]

True.

[@phillipkuns3]

Just like the "United" States of America.

[@HistoryHustle]

🤣

[@alswann2702]

Deo vindice.

[@BajanEnglishman51]

Early yesss

[@HistoryHustle]

Welcome 👍

[@serniko3393]

Pupet state of croatia had a black boxing coach for national team when he returned to usa after war he said fuck not again he had full freedom in reich is that weird but in usa he was never free..

[@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

[@TRUBOLAZ]

One mistake is constantly repeated, the victims of Jews, Roma and Serbs are mentioned, often in exaggerated numbers, and the Croatian victims are often skipped. According to the two only scientific studies on all the victims in the territory of Yugoslavia (Croatian-Žerjavić and Serbijan-Kočović), the Ustashas killed more Croats than all the others combined! And that needs to be highlighted until it becomes common knowledge..

[@HistoryHustle]

By who?

[@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.

[@tom_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.