P52

  On August 8th 1943, this Partisan battalion was founded in West Slavonia as an ethnic German unit within Tito’s Partisan army. It was composed mainly of German Army deserters and local ethnic Germans.
The name of the battalion is?

Thälmann Battalion
(3 points)

a.) Thälmann Battalion

b.) Battalion Rosa

c.) Liebknecht Battalion

Thälmann Battalion
(2 points)

Led by Commander Hans Pichler and Johann Mucker (as the political commissar), Thälmann Battalion was composed mainly of Germans who joined Partisan units. Mucker was later awarded with the honors of the “People’s Hero” after the war. The battalion was comprised of roughly how many men?

a.) 200 men

b.) 400 men

200 men
(1 point)