May 1941
[German, 0:53]
Belgrade Jews are pressed into service to help clear rubble in the destroyed fortress. [music]
Belgrade Jews are pressed into service to help clear rubble in the destroyed fortress. [music]
Shortly after the German occupation of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in April 1941, the Germans forced Jews to clear the rubble caused by the heavy bombardment of the city. This German newsreel footage shows Jews clearing some of the rubble. Most of the city's Jews were later arrested and interned in camps. The German army later shot the Jewish men in retaliation for Serb resistance; the Germans killed the Jewish women and children in gas vans. Only about 2,200 Jews of Belgrade returned to the city after the war.
— Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
