 Museum of Banjica concentration camp One of the concentration camps in Serbia. Image File history File links Banj_p1_z. ...
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Serbia and Montenegro – Serbia – Vojvodina – Montenegro Kosovo (UN administration) Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area (not including data for Kosovo) – Total – % water 77. ...
The Banjica Camp The Banjica camp in Belgrade was established in July 1941 and shut down at the end of September 1944, a month before the withdrawal of the Germans from Belgrade. The German occupational forces formed the concentration camp on Banjica in July 1941. It was managed by the special SS unit (Sonderkommando beim KCL Banjica), with the help of police forces of the Serbian collaborative government. For other uses, see Belgrade (disambiguation). ...
The prisoners were watched by heavily armed guards:
"Machine guns and reflectors were set up on the roofs. Day and night, double guards made up of one SS-man and a gendarme from the Special Police stood watch. Later when the police gained the trust of the occupier, the German guards were withdrawn". The same Serbian source also said: "The camp management apparatus was also made up of prison wardens, headed by their commander, who had been chosen from the ranks of former gendarmes, now members of the Serbian guard." From partially preserved documents is known that over 24,000 people were registered and over 4,200 were executed by a firing squad. The German and Serbian police began, at the end of 1943, to destroy the documentation and to excavate and burn the bodies so that it is actually not known how many victims perished, nor how many were Jews, Serbs or others. Jewish men were, along with many other prisoners, killed by the Germans in reprisals for the actions of the Serbian resistance in the camp yard, in the village of Jajinci at the foot of Avala, or at the Jewish and the central cemetery in Belgrade, while women and children were sent to nearby Sajmiste concentration camp at the territory of Independent State of Croatia and killed in gas vans. The prisoners were sent to the camps by the Belgrade Civil Government, the heads of the Serbian municipal police, the Serbian National Guard, Ljotic’s volunteer units, Serbian court-martials, and by regional and district leaders throughout Serbia. Execution lists were drawn up by the Gestapo commander, his assistant, commander of the Serbian part of the camp and the Special Police. From the preserved lists, it can be observed that even children were executed: 22 under the age of 7; 26 under the age of 14; 76 under the age of 17; even mothers with small children in their arms. Belgrade grave-diggers recall: The SajmiÅ¡te concentration camp was one of the complexes of Serbian concentration camps that were almost exclusive for Serbian Jews. ...
The Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) is a was a Nazi puppet state founded during World War II when in April 1941, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invaded by the forces of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, geographically encompassing most of modern-day Croatia and Bosnia...
"Members of the Gestapo and Special Police agents would draw women out of armored cars, one by one. Two men would hold each one by the arms and the third would shoot her in the head and then push her into the grave."
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