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² Fedrigotti to Foreign Office, 21 Apr. 1941, Sarajevo, PA, R 60681 (also in PA, R 27363).

³ Fedrigotti to Foreign Office, 19 Apr. 1941, Ključ, PA, R 60681 (also in PA, R 27363); and Fedrigotti to Foreign Office, 27 Apr. 1941, Belgrade, PA, R 60681.

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¹¹ On the Muslim population in the civil war, see literature in n. 4, esp. Tomasevich, War and revolution, esp. pp. 491–4; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, esp. pp. 63–118 and 169–77; and idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, esp. pp. 29–62; as well as Edmond Paris, Genocide in satellite Croatia, 1941–1945: a record of racial and religious persecutions and massacres (Chicago, IL, 1961), pp. 119–26; Jelinek, Yeshayahu, ‘Nationalities and minorities in the independent state of Croatia’, Nationalities Papers, 8 (1980), pp. 195–210CrossRefGoogle Scholar, esp. pp. 200–3; idem, ‘Bosnia-Herzegovina at war: relations between Moslems and non-Moslems’, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 5 (1990), pp. 275–92CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Dulić, Tomislav, ‘Mass killing in the independent state of Croatia, 1941–1945: a case for comparative research’, Journal of Genocide Research, 8 (2006), pp. 255–81CrossRefGoogle Scholar, esp. pp. 265–70; and Mirković, Damir, ‘Victims and perpetrators in the Yugoslav genocide, 1941–1945: some preliminary observations’, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 7 (1993), pp. 317–32CrossRefGoogle Scholar, esp. pp. 321–2. For excellent overviews of the Muslims in the civil war in Bosnia, see Malcolm, Noel, Bosnia: a short history (London, 1994), pp. 174–92Google Scholar; Hoare, Marko Attila, The history of Bosnia: from the Middle Ages to the present day (London, 2007), pp. 197–308Google Scholar; and Donia, Robert J., Sarajevo: a biography (London, 2006), pp. 168–203CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Dedijer, Vladimir and Miletić, Antun, eds., Genocid nad Muslimanima, 1941–1945: Zbornik Dokumenata i Svedočenja (Sarajevo, 1990)Google Scholar, provides a selection of primary documents on the civil war and Četnik violence against Muslims.

¹² On 18 Feb. 1942, the German envoy in Zagreb, Kasche, forwarded a number of appeals from local Muslim groups to (Muslim) Ustaša authorities, complaining about their religious persecution, to Berlin, see Kasche to Foreign Office, 18 Feb. 1942, Zagreb, PA, R 60608, and, attached, Memorandum (‘Beschwerde der muselmanischen Bezirksbeauftragten von Prijedor an einige angesehene Muselmanen’), 23 Sept. 1941, Prijedor, PA, R 60608; and Memorandum (‘Denkschrift des Sarajevo Ulema-Verein “El Hidaja”’), 12 Oct. 1941, PA, R 60608; and Memorandum (‘Denkschrift der muselmanischen Vertreter aus Banja Luka’), 12 Nov. 1941, Banja Luka, PA, R 60608.

¹³ People's Committee (‘Volkskomitee’), Memorandum, 1 Nov. 1942, Sarajevo, PA, R 261144. The twenty-page memorandum was first assessed by army officials and then forwarded to Hitler at the end of 1942, see Wehrmacht Intelligence (Amt Ausland/Abwehr) to Reich Chancellery, 28 Dec. 1942, Berlin, PA, R 261144. On the memorandum and Muslim appeals to the Germans and Italians, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, pp. 489 and 494–6; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 19, 168, and 177–80; idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, pp. 71–9; Greble, Sarajevo, pp. 163–6; and, for a Croatian translation of the complete memorandum, Dedijer and Antun Miletić, eds., Genocid nad Muslimanima, pp. 249–64.

¹⁴ People's Committee (‘Volkskomitee’), Memorandum, 1 Nov. 1942, Sarajevo, PA, R 261144.

¹⁵ On the intensified German involvement in the Balkans in 1942–3, see literature in n. 4.

¹⁶ Lüters, Report (‘Aufstandsbewegung der Cetniks’), 5 May 1943, n.p., Federal Military Archive, Freiburg (MA), RS 3–7/16.

¹⁷ Wurianek (Army), Report (‘Bericht über Bosnien’), 10 July 1943, Graz, MA, RH 31-III/5; and Wurianek, Speech (‘Vortrag vor der Mannschaft der Kampftruppe Ost- und West-Bosnien’), 10 July 1943, Graz, MA, RH 31-iii/5.

¹⁸ SS Reich Security Head Office, Intelligence Report (‘Muselmanenproblem’), n.d., n.p., Federal Archives, Berlin-Lichterfelde (BA), R 58/92; and for views of other observers on the ground, NSDAP Organization Croatia, Report (‘Monatsbericht’), 31 Dec. 1942, Sarajevo, MA, RH 31-iii/5, which was forwarded by the NSDAP Landesgruppenleiter Rudolf Empting to Horstenau, 13 Jan. 1943, Zagreb, MA, RH 31-iii/5; and Hille (Croatian representative of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), Report, 19 Aug. 1942, Zagreb, Russian State Military Archive (Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Voennyi Arkhiv), Moscow, Special Collection (Osobyi Archive), accessed through Archives of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington (USHMA), RG 11/Reel 131.

¹⁹ Meyer, Blutiges Edelweiß, p. 119. Also representatives of the SS and the Foreign Office agreed about the exploitation of the Muslims for the pacification of the Sandžak, see Gredler (Foreign Office), Internal Note (‘Bericht des Ustascha-Kommissars Murat Bayrović über die Lage im Sandschak’), 12 Apr. 1943, Berlin, PA, R 100998. On a description of the co-operation with Muslim militias on the ground, see the memoirs by Thilo, Karl Wilhelm, ‘Der Einsatz auf dem Balkan’, in Lanz, Hubert, ed., Gebirgsjäger: Die 1. Gebirgsdivision, 1935–1945 (Bad Nauheim, 1954), pp. 242–77Google Scholar, esp. pp. 253 and 245–6.

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²¹ On the Muslims of the Epirus area, see Mark Mazower, ‘Three forms of political justice: Greece, 1944–1945’, in idem, ed., After the war was over: reconstructing the family, nation and state in Greece, 1943–1960 (Princeton, NJ, 2000), pp. 24–41, at pp. 24–6; Meyer, Blutiges Edelweiß, pp. 151–2, 204, 463–76, 539, and 620–1; Fischer, Albania at war, pp. 70–6, 85, and 168–9; and, for an account from the perspective of the Chams, Beqir Meta, The Cham tragedy (Tirana, 2007), pp. 59–105; and the documents in Elsie, Robert and Destani, Bejtullah D., eds., The Cham Albanians of Greece: a documentary history (London, 2013), pp. 335–94Google Scholar. Germany's policy towards the Muslims of Greece will not be addressed in this article. It seems that Islam only played a marginal role in the occupation policies in Greece, although, in the Aegean, army officials tried to co-opt religious figures like the Mufti of Rhodes, Seyh Suleyman Kaslioglu, to stabilize the late German occupation regime, see Headquarters of Commander East-Aegean, Report (‘Stimmungsbericht’), 17 Nov. 1944, n.p., MA, RH 19XI/38, 221. Kaslioglu hid some invaluable Torah scrolls in the pulpit of the island's Murat Reis Mosque during the war, see Benatar, Isaac, Rhodes and the Holocaust: the story of the Jewish community from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes (Bloomington, IN, 2010)Google Scholar, pp. 22–3 and 84. The German military authorities estimated that c. 130,000 lived in occupied Greece, see Headquarters of High Command Army Group E to Headquarters of Commander South-East, n.d. (Mar. 1944), n.p., MA, RH 19XI/10b.

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²⁵ Berger to Himmler, 27 Mar. 1943, Berlin, BA, R19/2255.

²⁶ Al-Husseini to Foreign Office, 30 Apr. 1943, Berlin, PA, R 27322 (also in PA, R 100998). Muslim attempts to send a delegation to the Mufti in Berlin failed, see documents in PA, R 60608. In his memoirs, al-Husseini claims that he had received telegraphs from the Balkans asking for a reception in Berlin, but that the Foreign Office had not given permission, see al-Husseini, Amin, Mudhakkirat al-Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, ed., ‘Abd al-Karim al-'Umar (Damascus, 1999), pp. 137–8Google Scholar. On the visit of the delegation to Rome, see also Tomasevich, War and revolution, pp. 494–5; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 175–6; and idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, pp. 64–7.

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²⁸ Kasche to Foreign Office, 13 Aug. 1942, Zagreb, PA, R 27327.

²⁹ Quoted ibid.

³⁰ Berger to Himmler, 27 Mar. 1943, Berlin, BA, R 19/2255.

³¹ Ibid.

³² Berger to Himmler, 19 Apr. 1943, Berlin, BA, R 19/2255.

³³ For a schedule of the tour, see Berger to Himmler, 19 Apr. 1943, Berlin, BA, R 19/2255.

³⁴ Ibid.; and, on his meetings, also Kasche to Foreign Office, 12 Apr. 1943, Zagreb, PA, R 27322; Ettel, Internal Note, 16 Apr. 1943, Berlin, R 27322, as well as, on al-Husseini's own account of his tour and his meetings with religious dignitaries, Al-Husseini, Mudhakkirat, pp. 138–40 and 143.

³⁵ Al-Husseini, Mudhakkirat, p. 143.

³⁶ Winkler, Report (‘Die politische Lage der Mohammedaner Bosniens’), 4 May 1943, Berlin, PA, R 67675.

³⁷ German News Agency, Confidential Report (‘Vertrauliches Rohmaterial’), 16 Apr. 1943, Zagreb, PA, R 27327.

³⁸ Winkler, Report (‘Die politische Lage der Mohammedaner Bosniens’), 4 May 1943, Berlin, PA, R 67675.

³⁹ German News Agency, Confidential Report (‘Vertrauliches Rohmaterial’), 16 Apr. 1943, Zagreb, PA, R 27327.

⁴⁰ German News Agency, Confidential Report (‘Vertrauliches Rohmaterial’), 21 Apr. 1943, Zagreb, PA, R 27327.

⁴¹ US Intelligence (FBIS), Report, 22 Apr. 1943, USNA, accessed through USHMA, RG 6, Reel 22.

⁴² Al-Husseini to Foreign Office, 30 Apr. 1943, Berlin, PA, R 27322.

⁴³ Berger to Himmler, 19 Apr. 1943, Berlin, BA, R 19/2255; and similarly, ten days later, Berger to Himmler, 29 Apr. 1943, Berlin, BA, NS 19/2601.

⁴⁴ Berger to Himmler, 19 Apr. 1943, Berlin, BA, R 19/2255.

⁴⁵ Lüters, Report (‘Aufstandsbewegung der Cetniks’), 5 May 1943, n.p., MA, RS 3–7/16.

⁴⁶ Al-Husseini, Mudhakkirat, p. 139. He also made the same complaint after his return to Berlin to Ettel, Internal Note, 16 Apr. 1943, Berlin, PA, R 27322.

⁴⁷ Woermann, Internal Note, 29 Apr. 1943, Berlin, USHMA, RG 71, Box 91.

⁴⁸ Berger to Himmler, 19 Apr. 1943, Berlin, BA, R 19/2255.

⁴⁹ Ibid.

⁵⁰ Phleps (Commander of the 7th Volunteer SS Mountain Division ‘Prinz Eugen’) to Jüttner (Chief of the SS Leadership Head Office), 19 Apr. 1943, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601; the report was forwarded by Jüttner to Himmler, 27 Apr. 1943, Berlin, BA, NS 19/2601.

⁵¹ Berger to Himmler, 19 Apr. 1943, Berlin, BA, R 19/2255. Kasche explained that he did not receive the Mufti because he believed that the trip was of an entirely ‘private character’, Kasche to Foreign Office, 12 Apr. 1943, Zagreb, PA, R 27322.

⁵² Kasche to Foreign Office, 28 Apr. 1943, Zagreb, PA, R 100998.

⁵³ Winkler, Report (‘Die politische Lage der Mohammedaner Bosniens’), 4 May 1943, Berlin, PA, R 67675. On Winkler's stay in Sarajevo and Zagreb between 14 and 22 Apr. 1943, see Kasche to Foreign Office, 28 Apr. 1943, Zagreb, PA, R 100998; and, attached, German Legation in Zagreb, Report (‘Übersicht über den Inhalt der einzelnen Gespräche während Reise Konsul Winkler, Dr. Katschinka und Herr Oertel’), n.d. (28 Apr. 1943), Zagreb, PA, R 100998.

⁵⁴ Winkler, Report (‘Die politische Lage der Mohammedaner Bosniens’), 4 May 1943, Berlin, PA, R 67675.

⁵⁵ Ibid.

⁵⁶ Propaganda Division South-East, Report (‘Lage- und Tätigkeitsbericht für den Monat Aug. 1942’), 4 Sept. 1942, Belgrade, MA, RW 4/232.

⁵⁷ Propaganda Brochure ‘Život Muslimana u Njemačkoj’, n.d. (Feb. 1943), MA, RH 45/73.

⁵⁸ Data Sheet on ‘Islam i Židovstvo’, n.d. (Feb. 1943), MA, RH 45/76; and, on the content, Casagrande, Thomas, Die volksdeutsche SS-Division ‘Prinz Eugen’: Die Banater Schwaben und die nationalsozialistischen Kriegsverbrechen (Frankfurt and New York, NY, 2003), p. 333Google Scholar; and Lebel, The Mufti of Jerusalem, pp. 311–19, which includes the full translation of the booklet on pp. 313–19.

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⁶⁰ Pamphlet ‘Kämpfer des NOV!’ (German translation), n.d., MA, RH 45/49.

⁶¹ Pamphlet ‘Braćo muslimani!’, n.d., MA, RH 45/51.

⁶² Pamphlet ‘Muslimani Bosne i Hercegovine!’, n.d., MA, RH 45/59.

⁶³ Pamphlet ‘Treba li Staljinov plan da bude stvarnost?’, n.d., MA, RH 45/53.

⁶⁴ Pamphlet ‘Borci bosanskih i muslimanskih brigada!’, n.d., MA, RH 45/61.

⁶⁵ Pamphlet ‘353 ubijenih Muslimana obtužuju Titu u području Vlasenice’, n.d., MA, RH 45/53.

⁶⁶ Pamphlet ‘Pucaj sa topom u džamiju!’, n.d., MA, RH 45/59.

⁶⁷ Pamphlet ‘Borci Muslimani’, n.d., MA, RH 45/59.

⁶⁸ Pamphlet ‘Braćo Muslimani!’, n.d., MA, RH 45/59.

⁶⁹ Propaganda Division South-East, Report (‘Lage- und Tätigkeitsbericht für den Monat Aug. 1942’), 4 Sept. 1942, Belgrade, MA, RW 4/232.

⁷⁰ Propaganda Poster, n.d., MA, RH 45/54; the poster was printed 8,000 times on 7 Feb. 1944 and put up on 9 Feb. 1944 in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Dubrovnik and other towns, see Data Sheet in MA, RH 45/54; and, for the poster depicting Roosevelt, see Propaganda Poster, n.d., MA, RH 45/54; this poster was printed in 10,000 copies on 1 Mar. 1944 and put up on 8 Mar. 1944 in Sarajveo, Banja Luka, Dubrovnik, and other towns, see Data Sheet in MA, RH 45/54.

⁷¹ Pamphlet ‘Muslimani, Katolici i Pravoslavci Bosne’, n.d., MA, RH 45/48; and, for the German translation, see Pamphlet ‘Muselmanen, Katholiken, Pravoslaven Bosniens’ (German translation), n.d., MA, RH 45/48; Pamphlet ‘Kroaten und Serben: Muselmanen, Katholiken und Pravoslaven’ (German translation), n.d. (Oct. 1943), MA, RH 37/6853; and Pamphlet ‘Poštenim Hrvatima, Muslimanima i Pravoslavcima u partizanskim redovima!’, n.d., MA, RH 45/59.

⁷² Pamphlet ‘Muslimani, Katolici i Pravoslavci’, n.d., MA, RH 45/48; and, for the German translation, see Pamphlet ‘Muselmanen, Katholiken und Pravoslaven’ (German translation), n.d., MA, RH 45/48.

⁷³ Structure Plan, Office for Political and Ideological Education the 13th SS Waffen Mountain Division ‘Handžar’, 2 Mar. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601.

⁷⁴ Wangemann (Chief of the Office for Political and Ideological Education of the 13th SS Waffen Mountain Division ‘Handžar’), Report (‘Tätigkeitsbericht der Abt. VI’), 4 Apr. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601.

⁷⁵ Ibid.

⁷⁶ Ibid.; and Wangemann to Sauberzweig (Commander of the 13th SS Waffen Mountain Division ‘Handžar’), 10 Apr. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601.

⁷⁷ Propaganda Division (Waffen-SS Standarte ‘Kurt Eggers’) to Brandt (Himmler's Staff), Berlin, 8 Nov. 1943, BA, NS 19/2601.

⁷⁸ Wangemann, Report (‘Tätigkeitsbericht der Abt. VI’), 4 Apr. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601.

⁷⁹ Sauberzweig, Propaganda Letter ‘Moji dragi momci!’, 28 Feb. 1944, n.p., BA, NS19/2601; and, for the German translation, see Sauberzweig, Propaganda Letter ‘Meine lieben Männer’ (German translation), 25 Feb. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601.

⁸⁰ Pamphlet (Draft) ‘An alle Flüchtlinge!’ (German translation), n.d., BA, NS 19/2601.

⁸¹ Pamphlet ‘Bosniaken und Bosniakinen!’ (German translation), n.d., BA, NS 19/2601.

⁸² Sauberzweig, Order (‘Stellung der Imame innerhalb der Division’), 8 Mar. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601.

⁸³ On Kulenović and Hadžić, see literature in n. 10.

⁸⁴ Requard (German Legation in Zagreb), Report (‘Bericht über Dienstreise nach Sarajevo’), 2 June 1943, Zagreb, USHMA, RG 71, Box 237. Requard based his assessment on consultations with Islamic leaders, especially Ali Aganović.

⁸⁵ Katschinka (German Legation in Zagreb), Report (‘Muselmanen’), 27 Mar. 1943, Zagreb, USHMA, RG 71, Box 237.

⁸⁶ On the history of the Islamic institutions, see Donia, Islam under the Double Eagle, pp. 19–22; Hauptmann, ‘Die Mohammedaner in Bosnien-Hercegovina’, pp. 685–90; Džaja, Bosnien-Herzegowina in der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Epoche, pp. 58–64; Al-Arnaut, ‘Islam and Muslims in Bosnia, 1878–1918’, pp. 250–1; Karčić, The Bosniaks and the challenge of modernity, pp. 124–39; idem, ‘The office of Ra’īs al-‘Ulamā’ among the Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims)’, Intellectual Discourse, 5 (1997), pp. 109–20; idem, Šeriatski Sudovi u Jugoslaviji, 1918–1941; idem, ‘The reform of Shari'a courts and Islamic law’; Bougarel, ‘Farewell to the Ottoman legacy?’, p. 317; Popovic, L'Islam balkanique, pp. 273–8, 316–19, and 339; and, for a general overview, Ferhat Šeta, Reis-ul-Uleme u Bosni i Hercegovini i Jugoslaviji od 1882 do 1991 Godine (Sarajevo, 1991).

⁸⁷ On Spaho, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, pp. 467 and 490; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 78 and 86–7; Bougarel, ‘Farewell to the Ottoman legacy?’, passim; Greble, Sarajevo, esp. pp. 30–7, 64–5, 76–81, 85, 96, 99, 101, 112–13, 115, 124, 126, and 166; Hasanbegović, Muslimani u Zagrebu, passim; and Popovic, L'Islam balkanique, p. 339.

⁸⁸ On Bašić, see Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, p. 174; idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, p. 91; Greble, Sarajevo, pp. 161–2 and 217; Hasanbegović, Muslimani u Zagrebu, p. 293; and Popovic, L'Islam balkanique, p. 339.

⁸⁹ Greble, Sarajevo, pp. 32 and 166.

⁹⁰ On Handžić, see Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, p. 189; Bougarel, ‘Farewell to the Ottoman legacy?’, passim; Greble, Sarajevo, pp. 34, 78, 126, and 214; and Hasanbegović, Muslimani u Zagrebu, pp. 119, 205–7, 210, and 261.

⁹¹ On El-Hidaje and the Young Muslims, see Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 103, 105, and 169; idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, pp. 16, 123, 142–3, and 205–6; Karčić, ‘The reform of Shari'a courts and Islamic law’, p. 268; Bougarel, ‘Farewell to the Ottoman Legacy?’, passim; Greble, Saravejo, esp. pp. 33–4, 78, 160–3, 175–6, 184–5, 200–1, 214, 217, and 235; Hasanbegović, Muslimani u Zagrebu, passim; and Popovic, L'Islam balkanique, pp. 321, 328, and 340.

⁹² Mehmed Handžić, ‘Palestinski veliki muftija u Sarajevu’ (‘The Palestinian Grand Mufti in Sarajevo’), El-Hidaje, 6 (5 May 1943), pp. 250–2; the article includes the text of the speech given by al-Husseini after the Friday prayers in the Gazi Husrev Beg Mosque of Sarajevo (p. 251); and a portrait photo of the Mufti was printed on the front page of the issue. El-Hidaje is stored in the Gazi Husrev Beg Library (Gazi Husrev-Begova Biblioteka), Sarajevo.

⁹³ German Legation in Zagreb, Report (‘Übersicht über den Inhalt der einzelnen Gespräche während Reise Konsul Winkler, Dr. Katschinka und Herr Oertel’), n.d. (28 Apr. 1943), Zagreb, PA, R 100998.

⁹⁴ On Aganović, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, p. 491; Greble, Sarajevo, p. 128; and Hasanbegović, Muslimani u Zagrebu, pp. 293 and 341.

⁹⁵ Requard, Report (‘Bericht über Dienstreise nach Sarajevo’), 2 June 1943, Zagreb, USHMA, RG 71, Box 237.

⁹⁶ German Legation in Zagreb, Report (‘Übersicht über den Inhalt der einzelnen Gespräche während Reise Konsul Winkler, Dr. Katschinka und Herr Oertel’), n.d. (28 Apr. 1943), Zagreb, PA, R 100998.

⁹⁷ On Pandža, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, pp. 411, 495, and 503–4; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 103, 174, 184–5, and 224; idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, pp. 22–3, 139–43, and 147; Broszat and Hory, Kroatische Ustascha-Staat, p. 157; Bougarel, ‘Farewell to the Ottoman legacy?’, pp. 324–5; Greble, Sarajevo, pp. 173–4, 184–6, 192, and 237; and Hasanbegović, Muslimani u Zagrebu, pp. 79–81, 205–10, and 345–6.

⁹⁸ Bajrakitarović to Phelps, 15 Nov. 1943, Mostar, BA, NS 19/2601.

⁹⁹ Ibid.

¹⁰⁰ On Merhamet, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, pp. 409, 411, and 495; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, p. 174; idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, pp. 123 and 142–3; Greble, Sarajevo, esp. pp. 34, 106, 139–41, 173–6, 213–17, 235, and 245–6; and Popovic, L'Islam balkanique, pp. 285, 287, 321, and 340.

¹⁰¹ Greble, Sarajevo, p. 174.

¹⁰² Langenberger (Headquaters of the 369th Infantry Division), Report (‘Niederschrift über eine Besprechung am 17.9.43 mit dem 2. Sekretär der “Muslimansko Dobrotvorno Društvo: Merhamet Sarajevo” namens Mechmed Tokitsch’), 17 Sept. 1943, n.p., BA, NS19/3893 (also in MA, N 756/183b).

¹⁰³ Berger to Himmler, n.d. (Jan. 1944), Berlin, BA, NS 19/319; and, similarly, Berger to Himmler, 12 Jan. 1944, Berlin, BA, NS 19/2601.

¹⁰⁴ Meine (Himmler's Staff) to Berger, n.d. (Jan. 1944), n.p., BA, NS 19/319.

¹⁰⁵ Langenberger, Report (‘Niederschrift über eine Besprechung am 17.9.43 mit dem 2. Sekretär der “Muslimansko Dobrotvorno Društvo: Merhamet Sarajevo” namens Mechmed Tokitsch’), 17 Sept. 1943, n.p., BA, NS19/3893 (also in MA, N 756/183b). This report was forwarded by Phleps (Commander of the 5th SS Mountain Corps) to Himmler, 5 Nov. 1943, n.p., BA, NS19/3893.

¹⁰⁶ Schulte to Brandt, 11 Jan. 1944, Berlin, BA, NS19/3893 (also in MA, N 756/183b).

¹⁰⁷ On the Muslim Liberation Movement, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, pp. 503–4; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 103, 184–5, and 224; idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, pp. 139–43; Greble, Sarajevo, pp. 184–6 and 192; and Hasanbegović, Muslimani u Zagrebu, pp. 208–10.

¹⁰⁸ Pandža, Pamphlet (German Translation), n.d. (10 Jan. 1944), MA, RH 19 XI/10a (also in BA, NS 19/2601).

¹⁰⁹ Headquarters of the 2nd Panzer Army to Headquarters of Army Group F, 8 Jan. 1944, n.p., MA, RH 19XI/10a; and, for a similar assessment, Bajrakitarović to Phelps, 15 Nov. 1943, Mostar, BA, NS 19/2601.

¹¹⁰ Kasche, Internal Note (‘Unterhaltung mit dem Führer am 29.10.1943 im Hauptquartier’), 11 Nov. 1943, Zagreb, PA, Nachlass Kasche, vol. 23.

¹¹¹ Posch (Waffen-SS), Report (‘Abschlussbericht über die Tätigkeit als F. O. in Kroatien vom 10.3.1943–1.1.1944’), 30 Dec. 1943, Zagreb, BA, NS 19/319.

¹¹² Kammerhofer to Himmler, 11 Jan. 1944, Zagreb, BA, NS 19/319.

¹¹³ Sauberzweig to Berger, 5 Nov. 1943, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601; and, on the second collection, Himmler to Berger and Jüttner, 16 Nov. 1943, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601.

¹¹⁴ Berger to Himmler, 12 Jan. 1944, Berlin, BA, NS 19/2601.

¹¹⁵ Brandt to Berger, 31 Jan. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601; and on the actual transfer, documents in BA, NS 19/2601.

¹¹⁶ Berger to Himmler, n.d. (Jan. 1944), Berlin, BA, NS 19/319.

¹¹⁷ Wangemann, Report (‘Tätigkeitsbericht der Abt. VI’), 4 Apr. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/2601.

¹¹⁸ Krempler to Neubacher and Behrends (Higher SS and Police Leader Serbia), 20 Apr. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/3630.

¹¹⁹ Muslim Representatives of the Sandžak (Landesausschuss der Muselmanischen Volksvereinigung Sandschak) to Hitler (German translation), n.d. (spring 1944), n.p., BA, NS 19/3630. The letter was forwarded by Krempler to Neubacher and Behrends, 20 Apr. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/3630; and then from Behrends to Brandt, 24 Apr. 1944, Belgrade, BA, NS 19/3630; Brandt to Behrends, 15 June 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/3630; and Himmler ordered it to be forwarded to Hitler with the wish that an answer be written: Brandt to Fegelein (Hitler's Staff), 13 June 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/3630.

¹²⁰ Brandt to Behrends, 7 July 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/3630.

¹²¹ Behrends to Himmler, 31 July 1944, Belgrade, BA, NS 19/3630.

¹²² Brandt to Behrends, 18 Sept. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/3630; and Venn (Himmler's Staff) to Propaganda Division (Waffen-SS Standarte ‘Kurt Eggers’), 18 Sept. 1944, n.p., BA, NS 19/3630.

¹²³ Sauberzweig, Guidelines (‘Richtlinien für die Sicherung des Landfriedens in Bosnien’), 9 Mar. 1944, n.p., BA, NS19/2145 (also in PA, R 100998). On the guidelines, see also Tomasevich, War and revolution, p. 499; and Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 45–6; and idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, pp. 166–7.

¹²⁴ Brandt to Phleps, 20 Nov. 1943, n.p., BA, NS19/3893. Himmler made this statement in response to Phleps's letter of 5 Nov. 1943 about Tokić and the autonomists, see n. 105.

¹²⁵ Neubacher to Foreign Office, 9 Apr. 1944, Belgrade, PA, R 101101.

¹²⁶ Winkelbrandt (Headquarters of the 373rd Infantry Division), Report (‘Feindnachrichtenblatt Nr. 7’), 16 July 1944, n.p., MA, RH 37/6931.

¹²⁷ On Muslim self-defence groups and the green cadres, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, p.504; and Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, esp. pp. 105–10 and 183–91; and idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, esp. pp. 120–3, 147–9, 185–6, and 207.

¹²⁸ Winkelbrandt, Report (‘Feindnachrichtenblatt Nr. 6’), 17 June 1944, n.p., MA, RH 37/6931; and, for a general military assessment of the Muslim militias, see all reports by Winkelbrandt in MA, RH 37/6931.

¹²⁹ On Četnik recruitment of Muslims, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, pp. 494 and 501; idem, The Chetniks (Stanford, CA, 1975), p. 105 and 240; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, esp. pp. 97–8, 143–6, and 174; and idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, esp. pp. 105–8, 168–9, and 207–11.

¹³⁰ Anonymous, ‘Marshal Tito's supporters’, Times (16 May 1944), states that Tito's army was comprised of 44 per cent Serbs, 30 per cent Croats, 10 per cent Slovenes, 6 per cent other nationals (including Italians), 5 per cent Montenegrins, 2.5 per cent Macedonians, and 2.5 per cent Muslims, although it has to be taken into account that the proportion of Muslims in the population was overall much smaller than that of Serbs or Croats.

¹³¹ On Tito's recruitment of Muslims, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, pp. 502–4 and 506–10; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, esp. pp. 170, 183–91, and 206–9; idem, Muslimansko Autonomaštvo, esp. pp. 108–10, 127–8, 157–9, and 211–12; and, on the propaganda brochure, Popovic, L'Islam balkanique, pp. 341–2.

¹³² On German massacres of Muslims and attacks on Islamic institutions, see Tomasevich, War and revolution, pp. 503–4; Redžić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pp. 35 and 188; Greble, Sarajevo, pp. 183 and 213–14; and Gumz, Jonathan, ‘German counterinsurgency policy in independent Croatia, 1941–1944’, Historian, 61 (1998), pp. 33–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at pp. 48–9.

¹³³ On Islam in Tito's Yugoslavia, see Banac, ‘Bosnian Muslims’, pp. 144–6; Popovic, L'Islam balkanique, pp. 343–65; Greble, Sarajevo, pp. 234–5, 237, and 244; Donia, Sarajevo, pp. 215–21; Zachary T. Irwin, ‘The fate of Islam in the Balkans: a comparison of four state policies’, in Ramet, ed., Religion and nationalism in Soviet and East European politics, pp. 207–25, at p. 216; Smail Balić, ‘Der bosnisch-herzegowinische Islam’, Der Islam, 44 (1968), pp. 115–37, esp. pp. 121–2; and, on the arrests of Islamic dignitaries for wartime collaboration, Isma'il Balić, ‘The present position of the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina’, Islamic Review, 37 (1949), pp. 22–5, at p. 24.

¹³⁴ On Islam in Hoxha's Albania, see O'Donnell, James S., A coming of age: Albania under Enver Hoxha (Boulder, CO, 1999), pp. 137–44Google Scholar; Zickel, Raymond and Iwaskiw, Walter R., eds., Albania: a country study (Washington, DC, 1992), pp. 85–7CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Popovic, L'Islam balkanique, pp. 42–65; and, on the arrests or executions of the Muftis of Tirana, Durrës, and Shkodër and others for wartime collaboration, Irwin, ‘The fate of Islam in the Balkans’, p. 212; and Prifti, Peter, ‘Albania: towards an atheist society’, in Bociurkiw, Bohdan R. and Strong, John W., eds., Religion and atheism in the USSR and Eastern Europe (Toronto, 1975), pp. 388–404Google Scholar, at p. 391.

¹³⁵ On the expulsion of the Albanian Muslim Cham minority, see Mazower, ‘Three forms of political justice’, pp. 24–6; Meyer, Blutiges Edelweiß, pp. 620–1; and, from the Cham perspective, Meta, The Cham tragedy, esp. pp. 59–105; and the documents in Elsie and Destani, eds., The Cham Albanians of Greece, pp. 335–94.