Trials against Nazi criminals of war in Yugoslavia (Serbia)

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.