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During the occupation, the Germans set up Soldatensender Belgrad, the popular radio station for German soldiers across Europe and Africa. [4] Approximately 11,000 of the Jewish population of about 12,500 in German-occupied Serbia, controlled by Hungary or the Independent State of Croatia, were murdered. [5]
[110] [111] After one year of occupation, around 16,000 Serbian Jews were murdered in the area, or around 90% of its pre-war Jewish population during The Holocaust in Serbia. Many concentration camps were established across the area.
A community of Serbian refugees was allowed to settle after World War I, and more refugees came after World War II. [8] Logan Square, Chicago, Illinois, United States; Goodrich–Kirtland Park, Cleveland, Ohio, United States; Most Serbs lived in the area north of Superior Ave between East 20th and 40th streets.
The 1974 Yugoslav Constitution requested municipalities to join into Inter-municipal regional communities to which they entrust certain rights and duties in the common interest, and with the legal option to devolve certain responsibilities from the Serbian federal unit to the inter-municipal regional communities level. [2]
On Veterans' Day, 2007, the U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Cameron Munter, visited Pranjani and presented the citizens of the area with a proclamation signed by the Governor of the State of Ohio expressing gratitude to the Serbian families that rescued hundreds of U.S. airmen whose aircraft had been shot down by Nazi forces in World War II.
The Banat was a political entity established in 1941 after the occupation and partition of Yugoslavia by the Axis Powers in the historical Banat region. It was formally under the control of the German puppet Government of National Salvation in Belgrade, which theoretically had limited jurisdiction over all of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, [Note 1] but all power within the ...
The Jasenovac Memorial Area states that to date more than 160 mass graves have been discovered, including 105 mass graves at Gradina, covering a total area of 10,130 m 2. [140] A further 22 mass graves have been found at the same site, plus an additional 21 mass graves at Uštica, site of a camp for Roma and Serb women and children, the latter ...
Regional map of the Yugoslav division into the banovinas, showing the area of the Administration of Belgrade City (1929-1941) After the May Coup, a new law was adopted on 18 June [O.S. 5 June] 1903 which created a modern local self-governance. The city was administered by the cabinet of the president of the municipality, with offices for ...