“Being far less disciplined and organized than their mentors, and lacking the technology, they often resorted in these camps to knives with which to murder Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, Muslims and undesirable even Croats. The most infamous camp was at Jasenovac on the Sava river, on the border of Bosnia. Tim Judah, The Serbs: History, Myth & the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Yale University Press, 1997). 2. Seven hundred thousand men, women and children were killed there alone in ways that made even the h...air of the Reich's experts stand on end, as some of them are said to have admitted when they were amongst themselves. The preferred instruments of execution were saws and sabres, axes and hammers, and leather cuff-bands with fixed blades that were fastened on the lower arm and made especially in Solingen for the purpose of cutting throats, as well as a kind of rudimentary crossbar gallows on which the Serbs, Jews and Bosnian Muslims, once rounded up, were hanged in rows like crows or magpies.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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