СТАТИСТИЧКА АНАЛИЗА ЖРТАВА ДРУГОГ СВЕТСКОГ РАТА У НОВОСАДСКОМ ОКРУГУ: ПОКУШАЈ КВАНТИФИКАЦИЈЕ НА ОСНОВУ ДОСТУПНИХ ПОПИСА
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE VICTIMS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN NOVI SAD DISTRICT: AN ATTEMPT AT QUANTIFICATION ON THE BASE OF AVAILABLE CENSUSES

Summary/Abstract: According to the first administrative division after the Second World War, the district of Novi Sad (okrug) consisted of six counties (srez): Bačkopalanački, Kulski, Novosadski, Starobečejski, Titelski and Žabaljski. The first systematic investigation into the crimes committed during the occupation after the liberation was entrusted to the State Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Committed by the Occupiers and Their Abettors. This commission was established at the second session of the AVNOJ in Jajce. The paper statistically analyses the victims in the district of Novi Sad according to the perpetrators, geographical origin and type of suffering. In addition to the victims, “bodily injuries” as well as “violations of personal freedom” are also analyzed. In the first census in 1945, there were 6,549 victims registered in the Novi Sad district. The Hungarian occupying forces were identified as the main perpetrators of the crimes. As this census was only carried out superficially, the process was repeated at the beginning of 1946. The new census recorded 6,764 victims in the area in question. The systematic census of war victims was initiated by the Federal Executive Council in 1964. Due to the passage of time and the ideological component, it is assumed that its scope was 56‒59% of the actual victims. In ten municipalities that had previously formed the Novi Sad district, 10,594 war victims who lost their lives and 18,417 victims who survived the war were registered. Although both counts are useful to get a general picture of the victims of the Second World War, the authors believe that both victim counts have significant shortcomings, mainly due to their ideological component. Nevertheless, the results of both censuses are an indispensable source for the quantification of war crimes at the territory of Serbia and Yugoslavia.

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