Talk:369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment

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[edit] Legionnaires post-Stalingrad

The story of how some legionnaires formed a new unit which fought for the allies should be in a separate article about the "Yugoslav Legion". The 369 Legion ceased to exist after Stalingrad, and that is what this article is about.--Thewanderer (talk) 18:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

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Valid point technically speaking. You forget the fact that legionnaires were in majority in the Yugoslav Legion and did not get a chance to vote on keeping their old 369th unit name. I do think the various circles of hell these men had to descend during WW2 is now incomplete without this. In my opinion the terrible fate surviving legionaires of 369th regiment experienced in Tito's JA at Čačak and later should be added as a chapter here to see their story to its conclusion. Many of them become heroes and most lost their lives for causes they had little chance to understand or control. Removal of this chapter may not help average reader get the whole story. --Lone plunger (talk) 19:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

This article is about a military unit which fought for NDH/Germany against the Cominterm. That unit ceased to exist during Stalingrad operations and its members who joined the Partisans ceased to be legionnaires regardless of their reasons for doing so. As a registered user, you're free to create a new article about the First Yugoslavian Brigade (the Serbian Wiki already has such an article). While this article can summarize the fate of its soldiers after their service in the unit, it shouldn't go into detail about the movements and battles of a separate unit.--Thewanderer (talk) 00:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

All I want to do is to tell the 369th legionaire story to the end. Fact is surviving legionnaires commanded and formed the majority soldiers of this new JA unit. Tito ordered them to be slaughtered in unequal battle against their former comrades in arms. For all intents and purposes they were the same unit until after Cacak disaster.

" Approximately 1000 legionnaires were evacuated from Stalingrad by air. They were awarded the Croatian Legion 1941 Linden Leaf for their service and formed the core of a new unit, the 369th Infantry Division.[6] "

I did not see any real reference(s) to 1,000 evacuation by air except on this internet site. It seems to be inflated considering difficulties Luftwaffe had, I doubt 1000 wounded made it out of Stalingrad by air. It seems more likely from Pojic that there were in total approx 1000 men wounded + sick + trained but never dispatched to Stalingrad left after fall of Stalingrad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lone plunger (talk • contribs) 08:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)