Strahinja Janjić

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Strahinja Janjić (born April 13, 1906 in Klenje near Bogatić , Kingdom of Serbia ; † after 1945 in Hamilton (Ontario) , Canada ) was a royal Yugoslav army officer, member of the fascist Serbian ZBOR party and agent of the Secret State Police (Gestapo) of the National Socialist Germany . Janjić set up the Serbian Gestapo , which operated in Serbia during World War II.

Life

As a member of the fascist Serbian ZBOR party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , Janjić was Secretary of the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Dragiša Cvetković (1939–1941) and used his position to spread Nazi propaganda. Janjić fled Belgrade during the Yugoslav coup in March 1941 . After the subsequent Balkan campaign and the occupation of Yugoslavia by the Wehrmacht, Janjić was briefly an official in the Serbian collaboration government of Prime Minister Milan Aćimović (1898–1945). Janjić offered his services to the Belgrade Special Policebut was rejected. Janjić then set up a unit of about one hundred men to fight against Tito's partisans near Kragujevac . Janjić joined as a volunteer of the 5th Company of the Serbian Volunteer Command under Marisav Petrović (1896-1974), shortly before the unit took part in the October 1941 massacre of Kraljevo and Kragujevac . The Gestapo also became aware of Janjić. Petrović put Janjić as chairman of the Kragujevac district administration after the massacre.

The commander of the Security Police and the SD Emanuel Schäfer appointed Janjić as head of the Serbian Gestapo formed in mid-1942 . In April 1943, the Germans dissolved the Serbian Gestapo and brought Janjić to Germany.

literature

  • Boško N. Kostić: За историју наших дана, Страхиња Јањић [On the history of our days] . Jean Lausier, Lille 1949, Strahinja Janjic, p. 61 ( vaseljenska.com ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gestapo ID card from Janjić at Online edition of permanent exhibition of the Historical Archives of Belgrade: Belgrade through the Centuries / XVI – XX century / World War II - Collaboration government. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Lacombe Janjic Family Tree, Name: Strahinja Janjic, Birth: 1906 - Serbia (Yugoslavia), Death: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In: ancestry.com. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
  3. ^ Jozo Tomasevich: War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration . Stanford University Press, Stanford 2001, ISBN 978-0-8047-3615-2 , pp. 189 .
  4. ^ Gestapo report on Strahinje Janjić, Belgrade, July 28, 1942. See Slavko Odić, Slavko Komarica: Noć i magla: Gestapo u Jugoslaviji . Ed .: Centar za informacije i publicitet. tape 2 . Zagreb 1977, p. 163 f .
  5. ↑ Boško N. Kostić: Za istoriju naših dana: Odlomci iz zapisa za vreme okupacije . Jean Lausier, Lille 1949, p. 61 .
  6. ↑ Boško N. Kostić: За историју наших дана, Страхиња Јањић [On the history of our days] . Lille 1949, Strahinja Janjic ( vaseljenska.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Janjić, Strahinja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janjić, Strahinja P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav army officer and Serbian Gestapo agent
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Klenje near Bogatić , Kingdom of Serbia
DATE OF DEATH after 1945