"EUROPA POZNAJE BOLJŠEVIZAM I BORI SE PROTIV NJEGA DO KONAČNE POBJEDE"
" EUROPE KNOWS BOLSHEVISM AND FIGHTS AGAINST IT UNTIL THE FINAL VICTORY"
Today on 23.08.2025 , remains of 814 Croatian soldiers from WW2 were buried after being exhumed from a mass grave. They were executed in 1943 and 1945 , and thrown in a cave Jazovka, enterance to the cave was sealed and concealed only to be discovered in 1989. In 1945 wounded soldiers from Zagreb hospitals were massacred there.
This massacre was commited by Communist partisans in 1943 and by Yugoslav Peoples Army in 1945 , until today former Bolsheviks and their heirs deny and still cover up the crimes they commited.
15.03.1944 printed card from Fp.59099/C 2nd.Battalion 2.Company of Kroatische Ausbildungs Brigade to Zemun ,Croatia. Printed folding card has 1943 calendar at the back , usage of such cards is uncommon.
2.1944 letter from Kroatische Ausbildungs brigade to Zemun NDH . Mailed from Fp.57364 F - III.Ausbildungs Bataillon, 6.kompanie. Chemical chensorships blue line is visible. Chemical censorship on mail from Kroat.Ausbildung brigade is rare.
01.06.1944 card from Varaždin to Fp.59099-D which is 3.company, 2nd.Ausbildungs Bataillon, Kroatische Ausbildungs Brigade in Stockerau. German censor cancel is seen even on front side. Croatian post marked postcard with a letter T meaning postage due was to be paid but ignored by Feldpost service.
There are 2 very interesting things about this card are:
1) adressee it titled Ust.Mirko Biondić, Ust. being short for Ustaša , such title is rarely seen on mail to Kroatische Ausbildungs Brigade.
2) sender note his adress as 4.sat. Oklopni sklop PTS-a , meaning 4.company, Armour battalion(sklop) of PTS - Poglavnikov Tjelesni Sdrug or "Poglavnik Bodyguard Brigade" which was Ustasa militia most elite military unit.
Mail from PTS is extremely rare !!
28.06.1943 letter to Podravske Sesvete , Croatia from Kroatische Ausbildungs Brigade. Sender writes his adress as Fp.57364 E which is 4.company III.Ausbildungs Bataillon Kroat. Ausb-Brigade that was located in Hollabrunn. Letter was mailed from hospital - cancel Reserve Lazarett Hollabrunn, in text soldiers writes that he is ill and is in a hospital.
With usual Censor marks present on the cover and on the text page , chemical censorship marks are present as blue lines at back of the cover and across the text. Such letters with chemical censorship marks mailed from Kroat.Ausbildungs Brigade are very rare.
04.12.1942 card to Zagreb from Fp.41700G , Kroatische Ersatz Regiment 369.
Three things are very interesting abut this card:
It uses feldpost cancel(Briefstempel) with text 1.battalion Kroat.Ersatz Regiment 369. although Fp cancels with number Fp.41700 were already in use at that time.
Text in Croatian is very interesting, soldier describes in detail to his family how to mail him a special Christmas parcel . A special card and parcels were issued in 1942 and 1943 to be mailed to soldiers for christmas , they are extremely rare.
Arrival cancel 08.12.1942 Zagreb ,this means that card passed through Feldpost cancel without being censored, which is very rare, also it gives us time it took for mail to arrive from Stockerau, around 4 days.
21.08.1944 card to Osijek, NDH from Fp.56756 B, Artillerie Ausbildungs Abteilung, Kroat. Ausb-Brigade. Censor marks at the back. This card was issued in Stockerau to Croatian soldiers stationed there . The card is extremely rare, postally used cards are rarer then blank cards.
Card was made from a single piece of paper to be written inside and then folded for mailing, on the outside one side was printed for filling mailing details, on the other side was anti Bolshevik emblem.
" EUROPA POZNAJE BOLJŠEVIZAM I BORI SE PROTIV NJEGA DO KONAČNE POBJEDE"
" EUROPE KNOWS BOLSHEVISM AND FIGHTS AGAINST IT UNTIL THE FINAL VICTORY"
04.03.1942 letter from Fp.41700B - 1.company Kroat.Infanterie Ersatz Battalion 369. in Stockerau to a Croatian soldier(officer) who was training with Academy of infantry, Modena Italy (Accademia di fanteria). Some Croatian soldier were trained in Italy but their number is much smaller then those trained in the Reich. At the time of Italian surrender there were 30 Croats in Academia di fenteria in Modena, while at the same time there were hundreds of soldiers in Kroatische Ausbildungs Brigade in Stockerau (one source states that up to 100 000 Croats were trained in Stockerau during the whole war).
Mail from Croatia to Italian military schools is very rare due to a small number of Croats in those schools, but mail from Kroat.Ausbil.Brig. to those soldiers is exceptionally rare.
2.09.1943 card to Fp.56478E : 4.company 1st. Bataillon Kroatische Ausbildungs Brigade mailed from Osijek NDH . Rare Croatian censor square cancel , CENZURA BR. 1? ( it can be 16,18 or 19). Those cancels were used by NDH Osijek censorship office which commonly used red ink for their cancels, other NDH offices usually used purple or blue ink. Card was also censored by Reich - OKW censorship service. Cards mailed to Kroatische Ausb.Brigade were very rarely double censored , and usually were censored only by OKW censor service.
29.11.1943 card from Fp.56756B Artillerie Ausbildungs Abteilung Kroat.Ausb.Brigade. Letter was posted from Stockerau(civilian post cancel) to Kroatische Reiseburo,Wien . No censor marks . All mail posted from Kroat. Ausb.Brigade to places other then Croatia is very rare, especially when it is written in Croatian language like this one.
12.1943 letter from Fp.57346F Stab III u. Einheit (Ausbildungs-Bataillon ) Kroat. Ausb-Brigade, mailed to Rigelsdorf Unterstiermerk , part of the Grossdeutsches Reich, text in Croatian.
Feldpost from Kroat.Ausbil.Brig. in Croatian langauge to countries other then Croatia is very rare, including mail to Reich. No censor marks , which is uncommon in mail from the Brigade.
