ABSTRACT
Using letters, diaries, written interviews, and German documents, Gabriele Anderl and Walter Manoschek vividly describe the events that befell the people of the transport, from the decision to join the transport to the voyage on the Danube, the endless waiting in Yugoslav camps, and finally the grisly murders. With General Franz Bohme’s 1941 order, the military authorities in Yugoslavia initiated the slaughter of all Jewish citizens and all Jewish refugees in Serbia. It is both significant and tragic that the order to begin these atrocities did not come from the German high command in Berlin. To understand the events in Yugoslavia during World War II, says Manoschek, people must remember the broad tradition of hatred against the Serbian people in Germany and even more in Austria.
