Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin tarihin rarrabuwa mai neman gafara na rukunin da ya umarce shi daga baya, Otto Kumm ya yi iƙirarin cewa rukunin sa ya kama Bihać da Bosanski Petrovac, ya kashe sama da Partisans 2,000 kuma ya kama kusan 400 a lokacin Case White. Bayan ɗan gajeren hutu da sake gyara a watan Afrilu, an ba da sashin zuwa Case Black
a watan Mayu da Yuni na 1943, lokacin da ya ci gaba daga yankin Mostar zuwa gundumar Italiya ta Montenegro kashe, a cewar Kumm, 250 Partisans da kama sama da 500. Masanin tarihi Thomas Casagrande ya lura cewa duk rukunin Jamusawa da ke yaƙi da masu tayar da kayar baya a kai a kai suna ƙidaya fararen hula da suka kashe a matsayin masu tayar da kayar baya. Saboda haka, ana iya ɗauka cewa adadin da aka ruwaito na raunin da ya faru ya haɗa da fararen hula da yawa. Rukunin ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a lokacin yakin. Kodayake Himmler ya riga ya shirya ya ba Phleps lambar yabo ta Knight's Cross na Iron Cross don rawar da ya taka wajen shirya Rukunin SS na 7, don nasarorin da rabonsa ya samu a lokacin Case Black ne Phleps ya karɓi kyautar. An kuma nuna Phleps a cikin mujallar SS "Das Schwarze Korps". Ya sami Gicciye na Knight a watan Yulin 1943, yayin da kuma aka ba shi "Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS" (laftanan janar), kuma aka sanya shi a matsayin kwamandan rundunar SS ta V.