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The destruction of Serbian Jews by the Nazi Germans was carried out in two distinct phases. The first, which lasted between July and November 1941, involved the murder of Jewish men, who were shot as part of retaliatory executions carried out by German forces in response to the rising anti-Nazi, partisan insurgency in Serbia.
Genocide in Bačka claimed a total of 14,000 Jewish victims. According to available data out of the Jewish victims of genocide 3,800 were from Banat, 11,000 from Serbia and about 260 from Sandžak. Out of about 82,000 members of the Jewish community in Yugoslavia only 15,000 survived World War II which means that 79,2% perished. [6]
List and Böhme were both captured at the end of the war. On 10 May 1947, they were charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity as part of the Hostages Trial of the Subsequent Nuremberg trials. [47] One of the crimes specifically listed in Count 1 of the indictment was the massacre of 2,300 hostages in Kragujevac. [48]
Hostage shootings in Serbia was a policy introduced by the German occupiers of Serbia during World War II in reprisal for Yugoslav Partisan activity. A large number of ethnic Serbs, Romani people, and Serbian Jews (see The Holocaust in German-occupied Serbia) were shot in executions such as the Kraljevo massacre and Kragujevac massacre.
It was not until 1963 that some of the photos were published in a book, however it did not elicit any public outcry. The photographs were later exhibited as part of an exhibition titled The war of annihilation. The German news magazine Der Spiegel used the photographs as part of a lead article on War crimes of the Wehrmacht. The article ...
The United Nations' top court ruled Tuesday that Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide against each other's people during the bloody 1990s wars.
Serbia's relatively small Jewish community of 13,000 (including 500 in Kosovo), [20] combined with the large Jewish communities of the other Yugoslav territories, numbering some 51,700. In the inter-war years (1919–1939), the Jewish communities of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia flourished. Prior to World War II, some 31,000 Jews lived in Vojvodina.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic convicted of aiding and abetting murder and other crimes committed by Serb paramilitaries in a Bosnian town ...