Промене у аграрној структури изазване расељавањем становништва на простору Југославије у току Другог светског рата
Changes in Structure of Agriculture in Yugoslavia caused by Population Displacement during the Second World War

Author(s): Srđan Milošević
Subject(s): Agriculture, Economic history, Social history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: The Second World War; Yugoslavia (1941-1945); colonization 1919-1941 (revision); agrarian structure; agricultural holdings; persecution of the population;
Summary/Abstract: Both occupiers’ partition of Yugoslavia in 1941 and the establishment of the collaborationist regimes caused a major change in many aspects of life, including the agrarian structure of Yugoslav territory and the whole agriculture as well. A number of changes regarding the land property relations have occurred within the occupiers’ zones of partitioned Yugoslavia and in the territory of quisling formations. These were primarily related to the annulment of the interwar agrarian reform and colonization implemented before 1941, which was accomplished by expelling and killing of former settlers. This particularly applies to the area of the so-called Independent State of Croatia, as well as areas under Hungarian, Bulgarian and Italian occupation. Another important aspect was the forced relocation of natives (mostly Slovenes and Serbs) from the area in which they lived. Furthermore, many farms in Yugoslavia were deserted due to a mass destruction and killing of rural population. According to data obtained during the postwar identification of the World War Two consequences, there were 289,000 completely destroyed households in Yugoslavia.

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