Liberals and Yugoslavia
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In an article that would otherwise be unworthy of comment, MacArthur makes one omission more sickening than anything he wrote. MacArthur permits himself to completely forget about Serbian collaboration with the Nazis and Italian fascists during World War II. He forgets that Belgrade was declared the first Judenfrei (Jew-free) city of Europe. He forgets that Banjica, a concentration camp located in Belgrade, was staffed almost entirely by Serbs.
Over 90% of Serbia’s Jews were exterminated. The pro-Nazi puppet state of Serbia declared that all Jewish property should revert to the Serbian state. And Dr. Harald Turner, the chief of the Nazi civil administration of Serbia, boasted that Serbia was the only country in which the “Jewish question” was solved, a “success” which he himself attributed to Serbian help.
DANIEL BAJIC
San Diego
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