NEMAČKO FALSIFIKOVANJE OPLJAČKANIH DOKUMENATA
- »KRIVICA SRBIJE ZA PRVI SVETSKI RAT«
GERMAN FORGERY OF STOLEN DOCUMENTS - »SERBIA’S GUILT FOR THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR I«
Author(s): Nikola ŽivkovićSubject(s): Archiving, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Security and defense, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd
Keywords: WWI; WWII; Serbia; stolen documents; German forgery; Yugoslav archives;
Summary/Abstract: In the course of World War II, the Germans organized a continuous theft of documents from Yugoslav archives. Archivists and experts in Yugoslav history came from Berlin and Vienna to Yugoslavia, mainly to Belgrade, to conduct the finding, collection and transportation of contheft of documents from Yugoslav archives, Archivists and experts in considerable amounts of archival material. Teams of historians at the Viennese and even more so at the Berlin universities, would then prepare this material for publishing by forging documents with the intention of creating proof of Serbia’s guilt for the outbreak of World War I. The plunder of archives in various European countries during World War II was carried out to such an extent that it was included in the criminal charges brought against the nazi leaders of World War II at the International Military Court in Nuremberg.
Journal: Istorija 20. veka
- Issue Year: 1995
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 59-71
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Serbian