Banjica concentration camp was a quisling and Nazi German concentration camp in the occupied Serbia during World War II, located in the eponymous suburb of Belgrade. It started as a center for holding hostages, but later included Jews, Serbs, Roma, captured Partisans, and other opponents of the German Reich. The camp's registers record the names of 23,637 prisoners, of which 4,286 were executed or died.
The camp was open from June 1941 to Septemb...
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Banjica concentration camp was a quisling and Nazi German concentration camp in the occupied Serbia during World War II, located in the eponymous suburb of Belgrade. It started as a center for holding hostages, but later included Jews, Serbs, Roma, captured Partisans, and other opponents of the German Reich. The camp's registers record the names of 23,637 prisoners, of which 4,286 were executed or died.
The camp was open from June 1941 to September 1944. It was jointly run by German occupying forces, under command of Gestapo official Willy Friedrich, and the Serbian State Guard. The Serbian administrator was Svetozar Vujković, a pre-war policeman, while his deputy was Đorđe Kosmajac, and both were infamous for their sadism.
The first reprisal executions in late June were against "Communists and Jews". The first mass execution at Banjica occurred on December 17, 1941, when 170 prisoners were shot.
The camp was chiefly intended for Serbs accused to be communists, royalists, or otherwise...
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