The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen", initially named the SS-Volunteer Division Prinz Eugen, was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi Party
Croatian Homeguards of German ethnic background enlisting in the SS
Vehicles of Prinz Eugen's 7th Panzer Battalion (including SOMUA S35 and Hotchkiss H39 tanks) laagering on the outskirts of a Bosnian town in 1941
Prinz Eugen soldiers disarming the Lim-Sandžak Chetnik Detachment prior to Operation Schwarz, May 1943
Prinz Eugen MG 42 position on the Dalmatian coast, 1943
Artur Phleps
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Artur Gustav Martin Phleps was an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and Nazi German army officer who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS during World War II. An A
7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen
…in southwestern Serbia, in Kraljevo, Užice, Ivanjica, Čačak, Raška, Kosovska Mitrovica, and Novi Pazar. On 5 October 1942, the division commander Artur Phleps ordered the German and Bulgarian forces to destroy the enemy. A comprehensive attack was planned: 20,000 well-armed and fully trained troops would…
Phleps in 1942
Phleps's birthplace of Birthälm in Siebenbürgen (modern-day Transylvania)
From left: Italian General Ercole Roncaglia, Kurt Waldheim, Oberst Macholz and Phleps (with briefcase) at Podgorica airfield in Montenegro during Operation Schwarz, 22 May 1943. This photograph caused much controversy when it was published while Waldheim was running for the Austrian presidency in 1985–1986.