{"id":105,"date":"2018-11-21T21:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cieh-chre.org\/porajmosinserbia\/?p=105"},"modified":"2021-07-19T02:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T00:13:50","slug":"kragujevac-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cieh-chre.org\/porajmosinserbia\/kragujevac-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Kragujevac"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kragujevac - the forms of memory<\/h3>\n
\n\t
\n

\u201eRacial-biologic protection of national living force and the family must be in the foundation of every state, social and economic policy\" - programme of \"Zbor\" - Stevan Ivani\u0107, the commissary for social policy and national health in the commissary government of Milan Nedi<\/em><\/strong>\u0107.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Forgetting is... the key factor in the building of a nation\" - Ernst Renan<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The tragedy of political violence also contains the key to the mechanism generating that violence. The society slipping from its ethical plane is often clearly refracting in the seemingly minor, local events, which, as if by chance, reach the pinnacle of the ideologically pure violence, erasing every trace of civilization. The tragedy in Kragujevac, one of many during October 1941, contains such sub-event, its own ideologically pure vignette. The racially motivated hunt of the Roma, by the \"Serbian State Guards\" and its volunteers to gather the victims for the exchange of select Serbian hostages with the German occupiers. This event was conducted by <\/span>Marisav Petrovi\u0107, local fascist, the official of Dimitrije Ljoti\u0107's organization \"Zbor\", and the commander of the \"Fifth Volunteer Batallion\" with his unit, after taking over the local municipal authority, and aided the Wehrmacht punitive expedition to racially and ideologically select the victims for the mass executions - communists, workers, partisan sympathizers, Jews, Roma, the poor, the peasants, children, schoolboys, those that could be abducted, those that have had a grudge against as well as those they never met, members of their own extended families, the innocent, the naive and the accidental... This enumeration, seemingly complex and confusing, on the day, was far from arbitrary, but rather structured by a long-running education and habituation to chauvinism, racism, and the political violence against the unprotected ethnic and social groups. The testament to the degree of \"normalcy\" of their actions, as well as the degree of adoption of the Nazi ideology are the swiftness of the action, and the complete absence of any sign of the revolt, shame or compassion for the victims by the volunteers. These indicate a much earlier de-sensitization of the perpetrators and the dehumanization of their victims. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

The \u201cCrystal flower\u201d (a monument to the shoe-shine boys)<\/h3>\n\t\t\n\t\t
\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\"{{title}}\"\n\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\t\t