Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig, the commander of the Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS Division Handzar/Handschar, was extradited by Yugoslavia after the war for war crimes committed by the Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS Division Handzar. In the final weeks of the war, he joined the Germany Army and commanded a corps within Army Group H in northern Germany. Expecting lenient treatment from U.S. troops, he let the American forces advance freely on Wismar without resistance. Like Himmler, Sauberzweig expected the US and UK to be sympathetic to the plight of Nazi Germany. After all, the backward, subhuman Slav was a common enemy for the “Anglo-Saxon”. He became a British POW and was held at the Civil Internment Camp No. 6.

Subsequently, Yugoslavia requested his extradition for face war crimes charges. His extradition was approved to Yugoslavia. On October 20, 1946, Sauberzweig committed suicide by ingesting a cyanide capsule. This was how Himmler himself had committed suicide in 1945. Hans Konig of Handzar also committed suicide rather than face war crimes charges. Handzar member Otto Kruse swallowed a spoon to avoid trial as a war criminal. It is suspected that a British officer slipped Sauberswig the cyanide. The British did not appreciate the lowly, subhuman Slavs attempting to try an “Anglo-Saxon” for war crimes. Only the Brits could try “war criminals”. How dare these subhuman, inferior Slavs indict someone for “war crimes”. A Yugoslavian officer came to take the alleged war criminal Sauberzweig in custody on October 21. A British officer arrogantly and curtly informed him that Sauberzweig was dead. When the Yugoslav officer wanted to see the corpse, the British officer told him: “For you, the word of a British officer will have to suffice!”

Sarajevo War Crimes Trials, 1947

The Yugoslav government charged 38 members of the Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS Division Handzar for war crimes. A war crimes trial was held in Sarajevo in Bosnia-Hercegovina. The defendants were tried before a military court from August 22 to 30, 1947. They were defended by three defense attorneys, two civilian and one military. They were accused of the murder of 5,000 people in Bosnia-Hercegovina, then part of a Greater Croatia, known as the NDH. The 38 defendants were found guilty of committing war crimes in Bosnia and 10 were sentenced to death. On July 17, 1948, the following members of the Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS Division Handzar were executed in Bosnia: Rolf Baumeister, Walter Eipel, Kurt Lutkemuller, Bruno Lutjens, Heinz Masannek, Josef Palmke, Wilhelm Schmidt, Willi Schreer, Erich Schwerin, and Kurt Weber.

The remaining 28 defendants received sentences that ranged from 5 years imprisonment to life in prison. Wilhelm Mahn died in prison. The commander of the second Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS Division Kama, Hellmuth Raithel, was never apprehended and was never tried for war crimes. He died in 1990. Desiderius Hampel, a commander of the Handzar Division, was able to escape. He died in Graz, Austria in 1981.

A Bosnian Muslim Imam of the Nazi SS Division Handzar, Dzemal Ibrahimovic recalled the escape: “Seventy of us officers were later taken to a camp in Munster, and to internment camps at Fallingbostel and Neuengamme. …There, I met Hampel, our division commander. …A few German comrades eventually helped him escape….”

Indicted war criminal, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, recruited Bosnian Muslims, Kosovo Albanian Muslims, Soviet Muslims, and Arabs and other Muslims for the Nazi forces, rallying global Islam for the Nazi cause.

When the Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS troops were being interrogated, they hid and concealed their membership in the Waffen SS. Bosnian Muslim Ibrahim Alimabegovic, described how he was able to hide his membership in the Nazi SS: “When the British came, they took people’s medals, etc. and checked under our arms for the SS blood type tattoos. I didn’t have one….” He thus escaped prosecution for war crimes as a member of the Nazi SS. Many members of the SS had blood type tattoos. After the war, many tried to remove these tattoos. They also falsified their documentation to conceal the fact that they were members of the SS. They stated that they were members of the German armed forces but concealed the fact of any SS membership or connection to the Waffen SS.

Many of the Bosnian Muslim members of the Handzar and Kama Divisions escaped to Germany or the Middle East. Many of the former Bosnian Muslim members of the Nazi SS Divisions later fought in the Arab armies that sought to destroy Israel. The Bosnian Muslims moved from killing Jews in Europe to killing Jews in the Middle East. Ironically and absurdly, during the Bosnian civil war of 1992-1995, Jewish-Americans and Israelis were the main supporters of Muslim Bosnia.

Dzafer-beg Kulenovic, the president of the Yugoslavian Muslim Organization (JMO) and the vice-president of the Nazi-fascist-Ustasha NDH regime, escaped to Damascus, Syria, where he lived until his death on October 3, 1956. He was the political leader of the Bosnian Muslims during World War II. He was able to escape prosecution for war crimes and genocide charges.

In July 1945, the Yugoslavian government, a charter member of the United Nations, indicted Haj Amin el Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, for war crimes committed in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Husseini, because he was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, one of Islam’s most holy sites, was regarded as one of the most important leaders of the Arab or Muslim world. He had fled from Palestine to work with Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler and Bosnian Muslim leaders in implementing the Final Solution. Husseini came to Sarajevo to cheering Muslim crowds to form the Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS Division Handzar.

Husseini, however, fled from Berlin to Switzerland. But because the Swiss did not want to harbor “alleged war criminals”, they refused him political asylum. The Swiss government gave him to France, where he lived in a villa outside of Paris.

	On left: Jihadist Al-Qaeda mujahedeen troops of the Bosnian Muslim Army marching in the streets. On right: Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS troops marching in a street.

Although Palestine was then under British “administration” under the Mandate, the British government, like the French, refused to extradite the Mufti. The British and French governments wanted to have good relations with the Arab and Muslim nations after World War II. They wanted to maintain their colonial and imperial possessions. They did not want to anger the Arab and Muslim leaders because they wanted to control the oil in those countries. What did Yugoslavia have to offer? Nothing. Britain and France could derive nothing from the Slavs. But oil was in abundance in the Arab and Muslim countries. This was how the Grand Mufti escaped prosecution for war crimes in Bosnia.

The French government gave the Mufti “privileged treatment” and saw him as “the head of a great Arab community." The Mufti had his own personal chauffeur, a secretary, and bodyguards. He walked openly in the streets of Paris.

In April, the American Jewish Conference requested that France turn the Mufti over for trial at Nuremberg as a war criminal. Instead, the French government denied the extradition request by Yugoslavia and allowed the Mufti to leave Paris for Cairo. Egypt granted him political asylum. This was how the Grand Mufti was able to “escape” war crimes prosecution in Yugoslavia for alleged war crimes he committed in Bosnia.

The World War II war crimes committed by Bosnian Muslims have been censored and suppressed in the US and the West. The role of Bosnian Muslims in the Holocaust has similarly been meticulously suppressed and covered-up. Finally, the role of Bosnian Muslims in the genocide committed against Bosnian Serbs during World War II has been suppressed and covered-up. This historical falsification allowed the US media and the experts to falsify the role of Islam in the Balkans. Moreover, it allowed the falsification of the role Bosnian Muslims played in the Holocaust and in the genocide against Bosnian Serbs. The Western propaganda machine manufactured a phony and bogus picture of Islam. The history of Bosnia was similarly falsified and fabricated. The war crimes that Bosnian Muslims committed were flushed down the sinkhole of history.