22 March 2020

0462 | Photo | Beauftragter des Reichsführers-SS für Kroatien



Members of the German Security Service and Order Police searching a village in the territory of the NDH (allegedly in Bosnia). With a report in his hand, the operation leader (an SS-Untersturmführer) addresses an elderly villager, threatening him with his finger. In the background, the lined-up population worriedly listen to the German officer. Despite the clearly unpleasant atmosphere, this police action was presented in the German press as a happy return of refugee villagers to their villages, who then "voluntarily provided information on the hideouts of the bandits", who "looted and destroyed their homes". (Judging by the photos, no one was executed this time; in the next action by this police group, three arrestees were shot and one house was torched.) 

Text: Ivan Ž.

Photographer: Arndt, 690th Propaganda Company.
Date: 1943.
Location: unknown, Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.

Sources: ECPAD, PK690 F1337 L28; ibid., PK690 F1338; Arndt, "Banditenunwesen in Bosnien", Litzmannstädter Zeitung, 24.08.1943, vol. XXVI, no 236, p. 1.

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Pripadnici nemačke službe bezbednosti i policije poretka pretresaju jedno selo na teritoriji NDH (navodno u Bosni). Sa izveštajem u ruci, rukovodilac operacije (jedan SS-unteršturmfirer) obraća se jednom starijem seljaku, preteći mu prstom. U pozadini, postrojeno stanovništvo zabrinuto sluša nemačkog oficira. Uprkos vidno neprijatnoj atmosferi, ova policijska akcija predstavljena je u nemačkoj štampi kao srećan povratak izbeglih seljana u sela, koji su potom "dobrovoljno pružali informacije o skrovištima bandita", koji su im "pljačkali i uništavali domove". (Sudeći po fotografijama, ovom prilikom niko nije bio pogubljen; u sledećoj akciji ove policijske grupe, streljana su tri uhapšenika i spaljena je jedna kuća.)

Tekst: Ivan Ž.

Fotograf: Arnt, 690. propagandna četa.
Datum: 1943.
Mesto: nepoznato, Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.

Izvori: ECPAD, PK690 F1337 L28; ibid., PK690 F1338; Arndt, "Banditenunwesen in Bosnien", Litzmannstädter Zeitung, 24.08.1943, god. XXVI, br. 236, str. 1.

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