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Fleeing the German offensive in late 1943 and early 1944, when Germany occupied Dalmatia, a large number of civilians (over 30,000), fearing reprisals, took refuge on the island of Vis. As Vis already housed the General Staff of the Partisan army and the allied British army, it was not able to accept and feed so many people. Therefore it was decided that the non-combatant population of the island be ...

Contains documents created by the Italian occupation authorities, regarding arrests and persecution of, and reprisals against, Jews, members of antifascist movements, communists, and the general population.

Selected records from the archives of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia related to the activities of the puppet government of the Prime-Minister Milan Nedic during the Nazi occupation. This collection includes correspondence of the various Government authorities regarding arrests, persecution and reprisals against Jews, members of the antifascist movement, communists ...

Discusses the deportation of Jews from Belgium to concentration camps during World War II, focusing on a comparison with the procedures in France. In France the first deportations took place already in spring 1942, urged by the military authorities in Paris who wished that reprisals for the activities of the French resistance should occur in the East rather than in France. In Belgium, the authorities ...

The persecution of Jews in Romania between 1940-44 was the result of collaboration between players in various social contexts, who followed their own logic of violence and generated their own violent practices. Distinguishes between dictatorial, fascist, military, police, and collective violence. Antonescu's dictatorial violence took the form of ethnic cleansing and "redemptive antisemitism". It was ...

"On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop ...

Anti-Semitic, anti-American Nazi propaganda poster issued in German occupied Italy ca. 1943, with a cartoon of a Jewish Bolshevik shaking his fists at all comers. The threat of the Jewish Bolshevik or Judeo-Communist conspiracy was a cornerstone of Nazi Party ideology. The 1917 Communist revolution that brought down the Russian Empire shocked the world. The prominence of Jews in the Bolshevik leadership ...

Selected records from the archives of the Military Historical Institute of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Serbia related to the German Zone of occupation of the former Yugoslavia. This collection includes correspondence of the German occupation authorities regarding arrests, persecution and reprisals against Jews, Roma, members of partisan and antifascist movements, communists and the civilian ...

Among numerous written memories of radical and mass reprisals mostly from the period 1944 – 1945, this collection contains also various testimonies of the Holocaust survivors who were facing the mass persecution during and even after the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising by German Army forces, POHG, anti-fascist unit Edelweiss, etc. Significant attention is paid the to mass executions in ...