Neke forme prinudnog rada u Srbiji 1944–1950
Certain Types of Forced Labour in Serbia, 1944-1950

Author(s): Nataša Milićević
Subject(s): Civil Society, Military history, Government/Political systems, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Penal Policy, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Serbia; social structures; types of forced labour; “exiled”; “unproductive elements”; prisoners of war; Volksdeutsche; penal labour; “volunteer labour”;
Summary/Abstract: Forced labour in Serbia, in the first postwar years, appeared in specific situations and affected various social groups, and it was carried out in the conditions of revolutionary political change. During the time of liberation and immediately afterward “mobilization” appeared as a specific form of required labour, while in the later period work referred to as “required service” or “required work” received special significance. Failure to comply with these orders carried sanctions in terms or criminal or administrative penalties. Specific social categories, the war prisoners and Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), who li-ved in camps were employed as forced labour and their freedom was restricted as a whole; other social categories were required to work through judgments of the courts and these sentences could be applied in jails or in freedom; a third type of required labour, which affected groups such as pensioners, occurred due to a lack experts, requiring them to accept various jobs in order to maintain their pensions. Regardless of the type of category, forced labour was in fact mobilized free labour, which was employed in numerous construction sites, mines, or other objects in fulfillment of the first Five Year Plan.

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