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This is a resin-cast figure or figure set for use with military dioramas or individual display.

Released by The Body, Hungary

The Body's resin figures are characterized by their delicate and deeply sculpted forms, which are difficult to reproduce by injection molding.

The 13th SS Armed Mountain Division "Hanjar" is a unit of the Muslim Armed Forces in Bosnia in the Balkans, a region with a mixed population of Catholic, Orthodox, and Muslim believers.

The officers and enlisted men were German citizens or ethnic Germans born and raised in the region, and the soldiers consisted of Bosnians and other Muslims wearing Turkish caps.

When deployed in partisan campaigns in the mountainous region, the division took on the appearance of a religious war against Serbs and Jews who were members of the Orthodox Church, and this was to have a lasting impact after the war.

The division's name, Handschar (hanjar), comes from the Arabic word hanjar, a crescent-shaped dagger carried by adult Muslim men, and was used on the divisional emblem and collar as a historical symbol of Bosnia.

When the division was created in March 1943, its membership reached 20,000 by July.

The uniforms were the normal SS ones, but the lapel insignia had a hand holding a hanjar instead of the SS runes.

In addition, given the large number of Muslims present, they were allowed to wear hats traditional to the Middle East region, while non-Muslim members wore the usual SS climbing caps.

The division was deployed in multiple guerrilla sweeps, especially when the division's morale was up against the Muslim avengers, which often resulted in massacres.

When the division surrendered to British forces in Austria on May 7, 1945, the Muslim members of the division were handed over to partisans led by Josip Broz Tito, and many were executed at Maeboa.

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