Execution of hostages in Pančevo. On 21 and 22 April 1941 (the first week of the occupation), the Germans executed 36 people at the Orthodox cemetery in Pančevo: 18 of them were shot, for (alleged) involvement in an assault on German troops and illegal possession of weapons, while the other 18 were hanged, in retaliation for the same assault (that is, for one German soldier killed and one wounded) and for (allegedly) committing violence against ethnic Germans. The court-martial that sentenced these people (mainly Serbs) to death was formed at the request of the city commander, Lieutenant Colonel Fritz Bandelow (commander of the IV Battalion, Infantry Regiment "Großdeutschland"), and the presiding judge was SS-Sturmbannführer Rudolf Hoffmann of the SS Division "Reich" (there was no real trial actually; it was merely decided who was to be hanged and who to be shot). The shooting was carried out by members of the "Großdeutschland" Regiment, while the local Germans did the hanging. Pictured, an officer of the Infantry Regiment "Großdeutschland" finishes off the survivors after the shooting, accompanied by an officer of the SS Division "Reich".
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: Gerhard Gronefeld.
Date: 22 April 1941.
Date: 22 April 1941.
Location: Pančevo, Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.
File source: Deutsches Historisches Museum, GG 388/16.
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Pogubljenje talaca u Pančevu. Dana 21. i 22. aprila 1941. godine (prve nedelje okupacije), Nemci su pogubili 36 lica na pravoslavnom groblju u Pančevu: 18 ih je streljano, zbog (navodnog) učešća u napadu na nemačku vojsku i nedozvoljenog posedovanja oružja, a drugih 18 je obešeno, u cilju odmazde za isti napad (odnosno za jednog ubijenog i jednog ranjenog nemačkog vojnika) i zbog (navodnog) vršenja nasilja nad folksdojčerima. Preki sud koji je ove ljude (većinom Srbe) osudio na smrt formiran je po zahtevu komandanta grada, potpukovnika Frica Bandelova (komandanta IV bataljona Pešadijskog puka "Velika Nemačka"), a predsedavajući sudija bio je SS-šturmbanfirer Rudolf Hofman iz SS-divizije "Rajh" (pravog suđenja nije ni bilo; praktično je odlučivano samo ko će biti obešen, a ko streljan). Streljanje su izvršili pripadnici puka "Velika Nemačka", a vešanje domaći Nemci. Na slici, oficir Pešadijskog puka "Velika Nemačka" dokrajčuje preživele posle streljanja, u društvu oficira SS-divizije "Rajh".
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: Gerhard Gronefeld.
Datum: 22. april 1941.
Datum: 22. april 1941.
Mesto: Pančevo, Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvor fajla: Deutsches Historisches Museum, GG 388/16.
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