Panzermahn:Panzermahn wrote: Hi Allen,
Thanks for the interesting info..General Dragicevic was the only Croatian survivor of the 100+ Croatian security detachment who fought at Berlin....Those Croatian soldiers were certainly true to their Za Dom Spremni ideal in the final conflagaration in Berlin
Dragicevic is the only known survivor - there may have been others, but since their importance in the grand scheme of things was minimal, they may never have been noted.
As for their deaths for "za dom spremni" - perhaps for a handful of the Ustase from the Poglavnik Bodyguard, but the members of the Domobranstvo were conscripts that, I'm sure, had plans for their lives that did not involve dying in vain for a lost and evil cause. It is unfortunate that they were put in a position where they felt their deaths were probably unavoidable, and decided to die with honour, but I highly doubt that dying for Pavelic and the Ustasa movement was their intention.
Allen/