Trials against Nazi criminals of war in Yugoslavia (Serbia)

Identifier
File 103
Language of Description
English
Dates
, 1941 - 1950
Level of Description
File
Languages
  • German
  • Serbian
Scripts
  • Cyrillic
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

About 500 items.

Scope and Content

The files contain SCICOS prosecutions against high-ranked Nazi officers accused of war crimes committed on the Yugoslav territory during WWII, with particularly attention to the Serbian territory under German occupation. Among them, SS commander George Kiessel. The file contains statements and interrogatories, reports, sometimes original documents in Serbian or German language. Particularly attention during the trials is dedicated to the extermination of the Serbian Jews.

After WWII Yugoslav authorities asked for the extradition of the Nazi criminals of war who managed to escape to Germany after the liberation of Yugoslavia. Many of them were located by Allied forces in 1945-1946 and delivered to Yugoslav military courts. After trials in Belgrade, the majority was sentenced to death in 1947 (in some cases like the Kiesel's one, it happened in 1950). The files contains only the materials produced by SCICOS and partially by the military courts. The materials from the trials are preserved in the Military Archive of Serbia.

Conditions Governing Access

Free access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Reproduction allowed

Archivist Note

Description by Milovan Pisarri.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0