Anti-Partisan Operations March To May 1944
The division was formed for the primary role of securing around 6,000 square kilometres (2,300 sq mi) of territory (the designated security zone) in north-eastern Bosnia within the NDH. The security zone encompassed the Posavina, Semberija and Majevica regions between the Sava, Bosna, Drina and Spreča rivers. Himmler saw this task as critical to the safeguarding of important agricultural areas and Volksdeutsche settlements in the Syrmia region to the north.
The division participated in what may have been the largest anti-Partisan sweep of World War II: Operation Maibaum. 13th SS Division also participated in other divisional and corps-sized anti-Partisan operations between March and May 1944.
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