Banjica concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp from June 1941 to September 1944 in World War II, located in the eponymous suburb of Belgrade in what was then Yugoslavia. It started as a center for holding hostages, but later included Jews, Serbian communists, Roma, and captured partisans. The camp's registers record the names of 23,637 prisoners. The commandant of the Banjica concentration camp was Gestapo official Willy Friedric...
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Banjica concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp from June 1941 to September 1944 in World War II, located in the eponymous suburb of Belgrade in what was then Yugoslavia. It started as a center for holding hostages, but later included Jews, Serbian communists, Roma, and captured partisans. The camp's registers record the names of 23,637 prisoners. The commandant of the Banjica concentration camp was Gestapo official Willy Friedrich.
The camp, a Yugoslav Army barracks before the German occupation, was part of the systematic destruction of the Jewish population. On May 30, 1941 the German military administration defined what a Jew was, demanded the removal of Jews from the professional and public service, started registration of Jewish property, introduced forced labor, forbade the Serbian population form hiding Jews (Beherbergungsverbot), and ordered all members of the Jewish community to wear the yellow Star of David. Communists in German-occupied Serbia orchestrated...
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