Original scientific paper

MANIPULATIONS WITH THE WORLD WAR II VICTIMS

Vladimir Žerjavić ; Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The article describes the circumstances which led to the figure of 1.7 million war victims on the territory of former Yugoslavia during the years 1941-1945, which was submitted in 1946 by the government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to the International Reparation Commission in Paris. The author shows how this estimation, which was done before the first post war census conducted on March 15, 1948 and not analyzed until 1951, is not founded. Based on the available official documentation, the author establishes that the total number of war victims on the territory of farmer Yugoslavia could not have exceeded one million persons. Hence, the statements of some Serb authors and statesmen that just in the concentration camp of Jasenovac a million of Serbs were murdered is simply unfounded.
The author blames certain stare offices, especially the Federal Office for the Statistics, for miscalculations of the war victims and for concealing the results of the census of 1946 and 1964. In fact, this concealment of truth about the number of war victims led to tensions between Serbs and Croats, which served as a pretext to Serbia to wage the war against Croatia with ultimate goal - the establishment of the Great Serbia.

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Hrčak ID:

209843

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/209843

Publication date:

10.1.1993.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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