Punitive expedition in Skela. On 14 August 1941, on the Obrenovac–Šabac road, near the village of Skela, members of the Posavina Company, Kosmaj Partisan Detachment, ambushed and destroyed a German police car. Riding in the vehicle was Lieutenant Otto Ehrmann, commander of the 3rd Company, 64th Reserve Police Battalion (the future I Battalion of the 5th SS Police Regiment), with three sergeants. All four were killed and their bodies were thrown into the Sava river. Shortly afterwards, the burnt car was discovered by a German patrol. The very next day, a company of policemen were sent from Belgrade to Skela (the Partisans had left the village in the meantime); in retaliation for the Partisan attack, 15 suspected villagers were shot on the spot and 50 Communists (hostages from the Banjica camp) were hanged, and the village itself was burnt to the ground. Pictured, members of the 64th Reserve Police Battalion stand triumphantly (and symbolically) between the freshly-killed Serbian villagers and their a-day-earlier-destroyed car.
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: unknown.
Date: 15 August 1941.
Location: Skela (district of Posavina), Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.
File source: Roger-Viollet, LAP-38036 / Getty Images, 92424053.
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Kaznena ekspedicija u Skeli. Dana 14. avgusta 1941. godine, na putu Obrenovac–Šabac, kod sela Skele, pripadnici Posavske čete Kosmajskog partizanskog odreda napali su iz zasede i uništili jedan nemački policijski automobil. U kolima se nalazio poručnik Oto Erman, komandir 3. čete 64. rezervnog policijskog bataljona (budući I bataljon 5. policijskog SS-puka), sa tri narednika. Sva četvorica su ubijena, a njihova tela su bačena u Savu. Nedugo potom, izgoreli automobil je otkrila nemačka patrola. Već sledećeg dana, iz Beograda je u Skelu upućena jedna četa policajaca (partizani su selo u međuvremenu napustili); u cilju odmazde za partizanski napad, na licu mesta je streljano 15 osumnjičenih seljana i obešeno 50 komunista (talaca iz banjičkog logora), a samo selo je spaljivanjem sravnjeno sa zemljom. Na slici, pripadnici 64. rezervnog policijskog bataljona stoje pobedonosno (i simbolično) između sveže pobijenih srpskih seljaka i svog dan ranije uništenog automobila.
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: nepoznat.
Datum: 15. avgust 1941.
Mesto: Skela (srez Posavski), Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvor fajla: Roger-Viollet, LAP-38036 / Getty Images, 92424053.
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