SS Polizei Selbstschutz Regiment Sandschak (from German; "SS Police Self-Protection Regiment Sandžak", Serbo-Croatian Latin: SS-policijska pukovnija samozaštite Sandžaka), also known as the Krempler Legion (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Legija "Krempler", Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Легија „Кремплер") was a unit established on the territory of Sandžak by the senior Waffen-SS officer Karl von Krempler under the command of Hoxha Patchariz[3] in Axis occupied Yugoslavia.
Krempler went to the Sandžak region (named after the Ottoman administrative unit "Sanjak") in October and reorganized the local volunteer militia of around 5,000 anti-communist, anti-Serb Muslim men headquartered in Sjenica.
[7] On 14 October 1944 Yugoslav partisans defeated the regiment during a surprise attack in which they took Sjenica and pushed it back to Duga Poljana, 23 kilometres (14 mi) to the east.
In November 1944, Pačariz together with his troops retreated to Sarajevo where the regiment was put under command of Ustaše General Maks Luburić.
[citation needed] In 1945 Pačariz was captured near Banja Luka, put on trial and found guilty for massacres of civilians.