sent by the commander of Waffen-SS forces in Hungary to IX SS Mountain Corps in Bosnia announcing that "battle ready units from SS Oberführer Lombard's division and Bosnians from the Division Kama had been thrown into the fighting in Bacska". The Bosnian elements were deployed along the Tisza () river for a week or so as part of Kampfgruppe Syr in an attempt to slow the Soviet advance. As a result, the return of the Bosnians to the NDH was delayed. The Bosnians were soon disengaged from the front line in Hungary and had begun the move to Bosnia to join the 13th SS Division when they mutinied on 17 October 1944. Raithel quickly regained control, but the mutiny meant the re-organisation of a "new" 23rd SS Division was abandoned. A small number of reliable Bosnians from the division were used as replacements in the 13th SS Division, and the 23rd SS Division was formally dissolved on 31 October 1944. Despite its short existence, the 23rd SS is considered one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded by the Waffen-SS during World War II. After the division was disbanded, the numerical designator "23rd" was given to the 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland, and Raithel went on to command the 11th SS-Gebirgsjäger Regiment "Reinhard Heydrich" of the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord against the United States Army in southern Germany during the final months of World War II. The post-war Nuremberg trials made the declaratory judgement that the Waffen-SS was a criminal organisation due to its major involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the killing of prisoners-of-war and atrocities committed in occupied countries. Excluded from this judgement were those who were conscripted into the Waffen-SS and had not personally committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. Order of battle The division's final order of battle consisted of: 55th Waffen Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Infantry) Regiment of the SS (3rd Croatian) 56th Waffen Gebirgsjäger Regiment of the SS (4th Croatian) 23rd SS Mountain Artillery Regiment (of four battalions) 23rd SS Reconnaissance Battalion 23rd SS Panzerjäger (Anti-tank) Battalion 23rd SS Pioneer Battalion 23rd SS Mountain Signals Battalion 23rd SS Division Supply Battalion 23rd SS Medical Battalion 23rd SS Replacement Battalion The division also included a workshop company, veterinary company and administrative section. Uniform The divisional insignia was a sun with 16 rays, the ancient symbol of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great.