“Volunteer troops can be built only according to the principles and in the spirit in which the SS troops were formed in Germany. They are not an army, but political troops, and as such they are an instrument of a given policy... Attitude toward the Communists is politics. Attitude toward Draža and London is politics. Attitude toward the Jews and Freemasons is politics, and attitude toward the policy of the New Europe is also politics. In a word, the political attitude of the volunteers is the principal source from which they derive their strength.”

👍 — Historical Archives of Belgrade (IAB), BAS, O=39, report prepared by Minister Mihailo Olćan, addressed to Rexhausen in Belgrade, December 15, 1942, p. 86.