Tito's Yugoslavia was certainly totalitarian, but it wasn't exactly known for mass murder--was it?
I'm surprised that such detailed data exists on the composition of a clandestine resistance movement--especially one from 75+ years ago.
Less than 10% of German prisoners were returned to Germany in 1955, 10 years after end of war. Most of others were executed, few hundred meters from where I live was a concentration camp and few execution grounds.
I didn't know about those battles in Slovenia. Thank you for informing me.
The Partisans were not above purging anyone they considered a possible opponent. Unfortunately, many Serbs ended up as Communist victims. Thing is, the Communist kind of considered Serbs a potentially problematic nation because of a long-standing Serb monarchical traditon and their support of the Chetniks during the war. The Yugoslav Communists started their purges already in 1941 in the Užice Republic. The Užice Republic was a Partisan-controlled territory in Serbia in 1941. Communist repression and their attempts to introduce collectivization led to much of the peasantry in the region turning their backs on Tito which helped the Axis and the Chetniks destroy this Republic. However, most of the purges happened between October 1944 and May 1945, so after the Communists took control over much of Serbia. The exact numbers are unclear, but it is estimated that around 60,000 people lost their lives. Many killings were carried by the infamous OZNA, a Communist security agency. Around 30,000 people died in Central Serbia (Serbia minus Vojvodina and Kosovo), Belgrade was especially targeted because it was a royal capital for a long time, but killings happened in Niš, Kragujevac etc. Most victims were killed without trial, which caused controversy even within Partisan ranks. Aleksandar Ranković, the creater of OZNA, actually opposed this practice. Killings also happened in Vojvodina. Most victims there were Serbs (around 20,000) but there were also German victims. As we know, Yugoslavia expelled their German population following the war.
It kinda is. Although they managed to cover up their crimes for decades. Once Yugoslavia broke appart, suddenly they started to uncover one mass grave after the other in Slovenia. All swiftly executed collaborationist soldiers and civilians who fled to Austria but were returned by the British. The partisans marched them back to Croatia but killed the majority without trial along the way and threw them in mining shafts, caves and similar. They had special camps for Germans after the war. They were hostile against the Jews and killed like half the gypsies of Lower Carniola, like macon said. I think political assassinations started already in 1941 when they murdered the former Ban of Drava Banovina, Marko Natlačen. Sometimes they just killed their own if there was a fear of traitors in their lines. The partisans had a weird ability of often acting without thinking it through thoroughly. And afterwards the local population got all the sh*t from the occupying force. I don't support them, I want this to be clear, but I can understand why the MVAC and Slovene Homeguard were created. Later developments comolicated things and basically every side in the war in Yugoslavia has "**** on their heads", as we say.
How many people were executed in Montenegro? I don't know much about matters there, I know there were both chetniks and partisans.
