Serbisches Freiwilligen-Korps der SS im Dienste der Nazis im 2. WK

18.1.2009 by ctstmaser.

 Serbisches Freiwilligen-Korps der SS

Das Serbische Freiwilligenkorps (serbisch: Српски Добровољачки Корпус/Srpski Dobrovoljački Korpus, abgekürzt: SDK) war eine militärische Einheit im Serbien während des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Im Lauf der Zeit änderte es einige Male seinen Namen: Zunächst hieß es Serbisches Freiwilligen-Kommando (Srpska Dobrovoljačka Komanda), dann Serbisches Freiwilligenkorps (Srpski Dobrovoljacki Korpus) und zuletzt Serbisches Freiwilligen-Korps der SS. Nach dessen ideologischen Führer Dimitrije Ljotić wurde die Truppe auch Ljotićevci genannt.

Truppenstärke:

März 1945: 9000-10000

Für die innere Führung der Truppe war der Journalist Ratko Parežanin und der Begründer der ZBOR Bewegung Dimitrije Ljotić zuständig. Die geistlichen Belange wurden dem serbisch-orthodoxen Popen Aleksa Todorović anvertraut.

Im September 1944 begannen Tito-Partisanen gemeinsam mit der Roten Armee ihre Großoffensive in Serbien. Am 8. Oktober 1944 wurden die Einheiten unter dem Kommando von Major Ilija Mićašević und Major Vojislav Dimitrijević von der Roten Armee und Tito-Partisanen aus dem Gebiet um Belgrad verdrängt. Wenig später folgten die geschlagenen Einheiten von Jovan Dobrosavljević, Vasa Ogrizović und Major Marisav Petrović.
Im Oktober 1944 wurde das Serbische Freiwilligenkorps der SS nach Istrien verlegt, wo es an Kampfhandlungen unter Befehl von HSSuPF Odilo Globocnik teilnahm.
Am 5. Mai 1945 ergaben sich nahe Palmanova nahe Triest zwischen 2400 und 2800 Mann den Briten, die diese, wie auch spätere Gefangene an die Partisanen-Truppen übergaben. Die meisten von ihnen wurden von den Partisanen hingerichtet.
General Mušicki wurde von den Alliierten nach Jugoslawien ausgeliefert. In einem Schauprozess wurde er zusammen mit anderen Kollaborateuren zum Tode verurteilt und anschließend hingerichtet.

Srpski Dobrovoljački Korpus (Serbische Freiwilligenkorps)

by H.L. deZeng IV

On 29 August 1941, a few months after the conquest of Yugoslavia, the German military Commander for Serbia approved the formation of a civil administration to be headed by Serbian General Milan Nedić. Realizing that this new government would need the means to maintain law and order and to combat the Communist-led insurrection which had already broken out across the land, the Germans granted permission on 15 September for the formation of a Serbian auxiliary volunteer corps in a strength of five battalions. This force was under the orders of minister President Nedić and commanded by Colonel Kosta M. Mušicki. An abundance of volunteers immediately stepped forward from the ranks of the para-military Chetnik organization and from Dimitrije Ljotić’s pro-German “Zbor” organization. (1)

Ljotić, a distant relative of Nedić, was a political zealot and ideologist who had founded the “Zbor” movement, that after a considerable rise in popularity had been suppressed by the prewar liberal government in Yugoslavia. The “Zbor” was a Serbian-nationalist revival movement, completely independent in character, and having a religious basis.

Ljotić and his followers believed in the preservation of the old values and viewed atheism, materialism and liberalism as responsible for the present misfortunes of the Serbian people. Communism was a Satan-inspired curse aimed at the destruction of the Christian world. These were the beliefs that led him to cooperate with the Germans in the fight against Tito’s Partisans. Ljotić was revered by his followers, but outside of his movement he was not popular due to his irreconcilable inflexibility concerning his beliefs. Ljotić eventually became the inspector and chief political officer of the volunteer corps. (2)

The commander of the corps was in many ways more of a politician than a soldier. Colonel, later Major General, Mušicki, was a former officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army and adjutant to Queen Maria, and was a friend of the Germans. He was a man of faultless character and of a calm, almost detached nature. Standing at his side as chief of staff was Lt. Col. Tatalović, likewise a former officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army. The cadre of the corps was good; it was composed of students, and in the beginning also the sons of peasants, many of them Serbian, but also many of the Eastern Orthodox faith who had been driven out of Croatia for their pro-Serbian, and therefore anti-Croatian, beliefs. The corps was consistently well thought of by the various German commanders under which it served. (3)

Mušicki’s force was referred to by its members from the beginning as the Srpski Dobrovoljački Korpus (S.D.K.), but by the Germans only loosely as the Serbian Volunteer Detachments. (4) The men wore an olive green uniform or, in the case of officers, the uniform of the former Yugoslav armed forces, with the Cross of St. George on the right breast. (5) Rank or grade designation was for all practical purposes that of the former Royal Yugoslav Army. Weapons were mixed; besides the German arms which were eventually supplied, foreign rifles and machine guns, especially those seized as war booty from the defeated Yugoslav forces, were used. Mortars and light artillery were also on hand in varying quantities. (6)

By 15 February 1942, the corps had reached a strength of 172 officers and 3,513 men, which was very close to the planned strength for the five battalions. (7) As soon as the component units were brought up to strength, they were immediately deployed for anti-partisan operations against Tito’s forces in central and northern Serbia. By 1942 the Partisans had suffered so many defeats in Serbia, a decision was made by Tito to transfer the tactical emphasis north into Croatia. Throughout 1942, the German occupation troops and the various indigenous territorial formations in Serbia, of which the volunteer corps was one, were engaged in protecting industrial resources and guarding the lines of communication. Few significant actions occurred, and casualties were light………………….

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