Local residents stand beside the bodies of civilians hanged by German troops in the Pancevo city cemetery.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 90683

Date: 1941 April 23
Variant Locale: Pancsova
Panchevo
[Banat]
Serbia
Photo Designation: INVASION & OCCUPATION -- Yugoslavia -- GENERAL -- Aktionen: Arrests/Executions -- Towns P
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Event History: The action was carried out on orders from the city commander, Lieutenant Colonel von Bandelow, in reprisal for the killing of 4 German soldiers by civilians on 18 April 1941. Altogether 22 civilians were hanged in the cemetery, while 18 more were publicly shot against the cemetery wall by troops with the "Grossdeutschland" regiment.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007886. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005456.
Keyword: AKTIONEN (AGAINST NON-JEWISH POPULATION)
CEMETERIES
CORPSES
EXECUTIONS
HANGINGS
JEWS (YUGOSLAVIAN)
SERBS
SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
SPECTATORS/AUDIENCES/BYSTANDERS
YUGOSLAVS
Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 338-Cases Tried--box 515--file 000-21-30
: Record last modified: 2018-02-08 00:00:00
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