The official AHF Foreign Volunteers & Collaboration quiz
Re: The official AHF Foreign Volunteers & Collaboration quiz
Hello, Frans
The I./28 was called the Albanian Battalion (it wasn't really a nickname; it was simply an Albanian battalion within a Bosnian-Herzegovinian division). I haven't heard that III./51 had a nickname.
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Ivan
The I./28 was called the Albanian Battalion (it wasn't really a nickname; it was simply an Albanian battalion within a Bosnian-Herzegovinian division). I haven't heard that III./51 had a nickname.
Cheers,
Ivan
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Re: The official AHF Foreign Volunteers & Collaboration quiz
Hello, Ivan
You are right, however, as in at least several German documents there is the name "Albanian battalion" as a nickname. III./SS-2 (Not 51 since that number was added to the regiment after it had been disbanded and the battalion itself was disbanded). He really didn't have a nickname.
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Re: The official AHF Foreign Volunteers & Collaboration quiz
Hi DFrolov1992 and Ivan,
Point taken! George Lepre mentions in his divisional history the departure of the Albanian battalion, and he was referring to I./28. Schmidhuber mentions the Albanian battalion (from "Handschar") in his final report on 02.10.1944, referring to III./2 in the "Skanderbeg" division. In that sense you may call that a nickname. Indeed there is no official mention of the renumbered battalion (III./51).
I guess one of you two guys should ask the next question.
Best regards,
Frans
Point taken! George Lepre mentions in his divisional history the departure of the Albanian battalion, and he was referring to I./28. Schmidhuber mentions the Albanian battalion (from "Handschar") in his final report on 02.10.1944, referring to III./2 in the "Skanderbeg" division. In that sense you may call that a nickname. Indeed there is no official mention of the renumbered battalion (III./51).
I guess one of you two guys should ask the next question.
Best regards,
Frans
Re: The official AHF Foreign Volunteers & Collaboration quiz
Again, it's not really a nickname ("not really" usually means "kind of is but basically isn't"); "Devil's Division", "Tiger-Division", "Blue Division", those were real nicknames, for none of those units was actually devil's, tiger-related, or blue. But the Albanian battalion was actually an Albanian battalion (which later evolved into an Albanian division). It's the same as the "Handschar" Division was both officially and unofficially called Croatian, or Bosnian-Herzegovinian division; it wasn't nicknamed - it actually was Croatian/Bosnian-Herzegovinian.
Anyhow, enough with the "Handschar"; who is this foreign volunteer officer?
Ivan
Anyhow, enough with the "Handschar"; who is this foreign volunteer officer?
Ivan
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Re: The official AHF Foreign Volunteers & Collaboration quiz
Is it Leon Degrelle?Ivan Ž. wrote: ↑18 Mar 2019, 11:39Again, it's not really a nickname ("not really" usually means "kind of is but basically isn't"); "Devil's Division", "Tiger-Division", "Blue Division", those were real nicknames, for none of those units was actually devil's, tiger-related, or blue. But the Albanian battalion was actually an Albanian battalion (which later evolved into an Albanian division). It's the same as the "Handschar" Division was both officially and unofficially called Croatian, or Bosnian-Herzegovinian division; it wasn't nicknamed - it actually was Croatian/Bosnian-Herzegovinian.
Anyhow, enough with the "Handschar"; who is this foreign volunteer officer?
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Ivan
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BG44
BG44
Re: The official AHF Foreign Volunteers & Collaboration quiz
Indeed it is Over to you
Cheers,
Ivan
Cheers,
Ivan