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Clearly Lepre is an authority on this particular division, not Stein, who was writing thirty years earlier about the entire Waffen-SS and makes no reference to unit files or correspondence from veterans of the division as Lepre does. Giving Stein's account equal status to Lepre on the question of when the last Bosnians left the division lacks a sense of the detailed knowledge of the division Lepre has demonstrated. Lepre quotes a letter he received from the company commander of 5/27 stating that all his Bosnians left the company to return home, despite his warnings they would be killed. This account is given in the context of the request from the 28th Regiment imams to allow the Bosnians to return home. According to Lepre, all the Bosnians remaining with the division were brought to divisional headquarters at Allerheiligen (which is in Austria), where Hampel approved the request, and many of the remaining Bosnians were released from their oaths and tried to return home. This makes it clear that there were Bosnians with the division in Austria right up until the end of the war, but many left prior to the German surrender and the march west to St Veit an der Glan where Hampel surrendered the division to the British on 12 May. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:03, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
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