How Croatian military units fought against the USSR in WWII Archive photo The Croatian Legion was the only foreign unit that the Nazis recruited in the Battle of Stalingrad. Its members thought it a great honor, not yet knowing what nightmare awaited them there.
The so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was set up under the patronage of Germany and Italy on the ruins of the destroyed Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941. When, two months later, Germany invaded the USSR, the NDH could have easily stayed out of that conflict: the Eastern Front was far away and Hitler did not need its armed forces for that war.
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