What Were Worst German War Crimes in Yugoslavia?

David C. Clarke · Post by **David C. Clarke** » 09 Oct 2003 03:04

Please feel free to delete this topic is it has been covered before. But I am looking for information on the worst warcrimes committed by German forces in Yugoslavia, during that country's occupation in WWII.

Thanks Much.

Best Regards,
David

K.Kocjancic · Post by **K.Kocjancic** » 09 Oct 2003 08:28

W-SS war crimes in Slovenia - Here you'll find some info on war-crimes in Yugoslavia - but must of the posts are on laws of war.

milos · Post by **milos** » 09 Oct 2003 10:36

After the insurection in Serbia in 1941. Hitler ordered that for each dead German soldier 100 citizens of Serbia sholud be shot and for each wounded 50. When an attack on a German column near the city of Kraljevo occured in October. The Germans rounded up around 3000 citizens of of that city and around 6000 citizens of Kragujevac(many of which high school students) and shot them.

David C. Clarke · Post by **David C. Clarke** » 09 Oct 2003 21:50

Thank you Milos, I wasn't aware of this incident. It's surprising that this occurred rather early in the occuption as opposed to later, when resistance was really building up.

Best Regards, David

David Thompson · Post by **David Thompson** » 09 Oct 2003 22:06

DCC -- The Wehrmacht started shooting disproprtionate numbers of hostages, at ratios up to 100:1, within a few months after the Nazis occupied Yugoslavia. Many of the senior commanders in the Balkans were later put on trial by an American military tribunal at Nuernberg in the "Hostage case." The UN War Crimes Commission report of the trial is available on line, beginning at:

http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/List1.htm

After the war, the Yugoslavs shot or hanged nearly every German Army and Waffen-SS commander of Brigade-sized or larger military units that they could get their hands on.

There is a photographic exhibit with commentary, on Nazi crimes in Yugoslavia and elsewhere, available (although the site is currently "undergoing maintenance") on-line at:

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/exhibits/WoA/map.html

David C. Clarke · Post by **David C. Clarke** » 10 Oct 2003 00:16

Ah Thanks David, really Yugoslavia is one of those theatres of war I know anything about.

Best Regards, David

David Thompson · Post by **David Thompson** » 10 Oct 2003 03:36

Anytime, DCC. I posted a list of the Yugoslav war crimes trials of German officials over in the ABR section, where Michael was nice enough to put a "stickie" on it. It's at:

http://www.thirdreichforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=25428

If you want bio details, please let me know.

Doppelkopf · Post by **Doppelkopf** » 10 Oct 2003 15:27

DCC, here's a link to the archived copy of the site DT mentioned, unfortunately with a few pictures missing and deals only with warcrimes in Serbia in 1941.

http://web.archive.org/web/200210182202 ... A/map.html

Hope this helps
Doppelkopf

Benoit Douville · Post by **Benoit Douville** » 11 Oct 2003 01:46

David,

The War in Yugoslavia is very interesting and fascinating. Do you know that the Jasenovac concentration camp located in Croatia was the third largest in Europe! About 800 000 died there. Astonishing! The conflict between the Ustachas and the Chetniks was really brutal.

Regards

TM2000 · Post by **TM2000** » 11 Oct 2003 11:27

>>>>>>>The War in Yugoslavia is very interesting and fascinating. Do you know that the Jasenovac concentration camp located in Croatia was the third largest in Europe! About 800 000 died there. Astonishing! The conflict between the Ustachas and the Chetniks was really brutal. <<<<<

You should divide your number with 10 for objectivity. (Every number that comes from home Balkan sources has one or two 0 too much) And Ustashas and Cetniks even cooperated, depending on situation. The link between them were Germans or Italians. Anyway the great majority of victims on Balkan in WW2 were because of civil war (Ustashas, Cetniks, Partisans) and not because of the Germans and Italians. But of course the last two are the main reason the civil war started on Balkan in 41 - 45.

Krilnik · Post by **Krilnik** » 16 Oct 2003 11:00

"And Ustashas and Cetniks even cooperated"

This is not the first time I read such nonsense so I would really wanted to know where from did you get such infos??
Well,I doubt that you will know answer on that question so I will say that you better stick on central European history, not Croatian

Krilnik · Post by **Krilnik** » 16 Oct 2003 11:01

"And Ustashas and Cetniks even cooperated"

This is not the first time I read such nonsense so I would really wanted to know where from did you get such infos??
Well,I doubt that you will know answer on that question so I will say that you better stick on central European history, not Croatian

David Thompson · Post by **David Thompson** » 16 Oct 2003 19:43

Krilnik -- There is nothing wrong with your question, but please avoid personal remarks in your posts here.

Krilnik · Post by **Krilnik** » 19 Oct 2003 13:09

cybercat · Post by **cybercat** » 20 Oct 2003 15:21

Krilnik. Although I'm no fan of the chetniks and I am in many ways pro-croatian - modern day croatian that is (I was a Croatian soldier and I fought to protect your sorry ass '91/'92) It is established fact that the Ustasha and Chetniks cooperated under German command in World War II especially close to the end of the war when the Partisans aided by the Soviets were sweeping all before them.

I shall endeavour to post pics of actual documents and groups of Ustashas with Cetniks on operations. Leave it with me.

Bog i Hrvati.