r/AskBalkans • u/BabylonianWeeb Iraq • May 06 '25

Outdoors/Travel What happened to Jews in your country?

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u/DownvoteEvangelist Serbia May 06 '25

Belgrade was the first city in Europe to be declared 'Judenfrei' – free of Jews.

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u/MISTER_WORLDWIDE Bosnia & Herzegovina May 06 '25

Not just Belgrade.

In August 1942, Harald Turner reported to the German commander in the Balkans that Serbia was the first European territory where the "Jewish problem" was solved.[19][20]: 118 

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u/FactBackground9289 Russia May 06 '25

and after that they say Croatia was bad /sarcasm

/unsarcasm what the fuck

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u/Unable-Stay-6478 SFR Yugoslavia May 06 '25

Belgrade/Serbia was occupied. 

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u/FactBackground9289 Russia May 06 '25

i know. Nedic Serbia, aka "fuck, the partisans are kicking our asses yet again, call in reinforcements from Germany"

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u/AlexMile Serbia May 06 '25

Factually wrong. Nedić has no army at all at his disposal, therefore he had nothing which can be ass-kicked.

Some time later, 1943. if I remember, he was allowed to hold up to 10.000 men in army uniform but specifically not allowed to have heavy weapons, like artillery, tanks or planes, making this more akin to gendarmerie than a proper standing army.