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Wonderful pictures! Thanks for sharing them. I posted the two you uploaded on the homepage.
The plane was downed in Croatian city off Bjelovar
“369th” great pics
Croatians were originally from a place near todays Iran atleast thats wat is said in our history books at saturday skul:P
They came before christ i think…?
If I may add something about the early Croatian history:
There is one school that says Croats (with Serbs and other ‘south Slavs’) moved south from today’s Poland along with Avar tribes. When the Avars retreated, Croats stood in today’s Croatia and west part of Bosnia. The 1st time Croats were mentioned in Byzantynian records was in 7th century AD. The Dalmatian Croatia was independent state from 9th century, while Panonian Croatia (capital Sisak) was under rule of Francs (Charlemagne etc.).
After the Hungarian invasion in 10th century, the duke Tomislav of Dalmatian Croatia managed to defeat the Hungarians army and both Croatias together. Tomislav was crowned for a king 925 AD.
The other school says Croats are of Iranian origin, moving with Huns in 5th century AD in central Europe, and managing to form a Croatian state in 6th century in parts of today’s Chech, Poland & Slovakia. After receiving a call from Byzantyne emperor, Croats moved south around 7th century. The rest of the story is similar with the previous post.
Excellent pics , thank you 369th
The photos of doomed soldiers in STalingrad, never seen Croat near soviet multi-tower T-35
Hi Croat my grandfather is been in war in croatia 1945 he has captured in voivodina by russian communists and transfered in siberia in pow camp.
2 years my grandfather been in camp agter they let him to go home he died 2002.:neutral:
Damn Russians German POW’s must eat grass and rat’s :evil:
Russian POWs didn’t have a better fate under the Germans - in fact it was probably worse.
But then again, Germany was in the midst of the war and low on resources - the German POWs were treated poorly even after the war.
Agreed but my grandpa have 20 years he is mobilized after 2 years he is go agian on trial after that he is release.
He is not judged for war crimes.
Sry my english is low i apologise
Do you know that your grandpa was endeed damn lucky , coz soviets has not passed him to Tito’s hands yet in 1945, like British command has done ?
Did you heard what happend to Croatia’s Ustaše colloborators in 1945?
I think the Syberia camp could seems not a such a bad place for 20 year guy, compared to what migh be happen with him in Austria in british zone.
To come back to topic. I have once read about which tanks the NDH has received and used. Among the used tanks there were the Polish TKS, the German Pz III and Pz IV (at the eastern front), I am sure I missed some now but I can’t look up right now.
Also, a single Matilda Mk. II was captured from the Soviet troops.
Now, I have once found a list with vehicles used by the NDH troops and to my big surpirse, on the list I could find the Pz. VI Tiger tank.
Now, does anyone know if this is really true? I have never seen pictures of a NDH Tiger and to be honest I doubt that the NDH ever operated one. But if you can prove me wrong in this one, I wouldn’t mind it 