Злочини Прве козачке дивизије у НДХ 1943. године: перспектива жртава, хрватских војних и цивилних власти
CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE FIRST COSSACK DIVISION IN THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA IN 1943: INSIGHTS FROM VICTIM PERSPECTIVES AND CROATIAN MILITARY AND CIVIL AUTHORITIES
Author(s): Aleksandar StojanovićSubject(s): History, Military history, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Cossacks; First Cossack (Cavalry) Division; NDH; crimes; anticommunism; Helmuth von Pannwitz
Summary/Abstract: During the Second World War, several Cossack units served in the German armed forces, and their movements and combat operations were already the subject of scholarly research and popular historiography. Contrasting the majority of published works, based on German military sources and focused on deployment and anti-partisan combat activities, this paper aims to analyze and showcase the First Cossack Cavalry Division on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) from a perspective of civilian victims and Croatian authorities. Such perspective portrays the Cossacks as uncompromising and exceptionally effi cient fi ghters against communism and resistance, but also as undisciplined villains, leaving the trail of crimes, robbery, rape, molest and murder of civilians. Th e paper is mostly based on unpublished historical sources from the Archives of Yugoslavia and the Military Archives in Belgrade.
Journal: Tokovi istorije
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 91-118
- Page Count: 28
- Language: Serbian
