Collaboration of the Special Police in the implementation of the “Final Solution” in occupied Serbia (1941–1944)
Collaboration of the Special Police in the implementation of the “Final Solution” in occupied Serbia (1941–1944)

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the activity of the Special police in resolving the Jewish question in occupied Serbia, primarily in assisting the Gestapo and cooperating with other quisling and autochthonous institutions. During 1941 and 1942, when the largest part of the Jewish population was recorded, imprisoned and liquidated, and during the next two years of occupation, the Special police continuously operated according to the Gestapo orders and thus entered into a collaboration, carrying out ancillary affairs, and therefore assisting in the preparation of the liquidation of the Jewish people. The purpose of the article is to present, according to literature and research of archival sources, the collaboration of the Special police in the affairs of resolving the Jewish question. Using the thematic method of presenting data, the author sought to show in general, but also in individual cases, the activities of the Special police in cooperation with occupation and quisling institutions, in the cases of Jews in occupied Serbia, but also to put it in the context of collaborationist police in Europe.

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