On August 6, 1943, Himmler wrote the following letter to his representative in the NDH, SS Gruppenfuehrer and Generalleutnant der Polizei Konstantin Kammerhofer and to Artur Phleps, commander of the Vth SS Mountain Corps outlining guidelines for the enlistment of Muslims in the Waffen SS and police:
"All Moslem members of the Waffen SS and police are to be afforded the undeniable right of their religious demands never to touch pork, pork sausages nor to drink alcohol. I hold all commanders and other SS officers, responsible for the most scrupulous and loyal respect for this privilege especially granted to the Muslims. They have answered the call of the Moslem chiefs and have come to us out of hatred for the common Jewish-Anglo-Bolshevik enemy and through respect and fidelity for he who they respect above all, the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler. There will no longer be the least discussion about the special rights afforded to the Moslems in these circles. Heil Hitler!
(signed) H.Himmler"
Muftins muslimska SS-styrkor tjänstgjorde bl a i Bosnien, där de ansvarade för uppsamling och avrättning av 10 000-tals judar. Den 10:e april 1941 utropades ett självständigt Kroatien bestående av Kroatien, Bosnien-Hertzegovina och delar av Serbien. Den 14 augusti samma år talade president Ante Pavelic i Vukovar:
"This is now the Ustashi and Independent State of Croatia, it must be cleansed of Serbs and Jews.There is no room for any of them here. Not a stone upon a stone will remain of what once belonged to them."
Spåren efter Muftin och hans SS-bödlar lever vidare än idag. Vi har sett frukten av våldet och motvåldet i Serbien, Bosnien-Hertzegovina och Kroatien under hela 1990-talet.
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