Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia
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Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia | |||||||||
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| 1941–1944 | |||||||||
The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia within Europe, circa 1942 | |||||||||
| Status | Territory under German military administration[a] | ||||||||
| Capital and largest city | Belgrade | ||||||||
| Official languages | German Serbian | ||||||||
| Military Commander | |||||||||
• Apr–Jun 1941 | Helmuth Förster | ||||||||
• Jun–Jul 1941 | Ludwig von Schröder | ||||||||
• Jul–Sep 1941 | Heinrich Danckelmann | ||||||||
• Sep–Dec 1941 | Franz Böhme | ||||||||
• 1941–1943 | Paul Bader | ||||||||
• 1943–1944 | Hans Felber | ||||||||
| Prime Minister (of puppet government) | |||||||||
• 1941 | Milan Aćimović | ||||||||
• 1941–1944 | Milan Nedić | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||||||
• Established | 22 April 1941 | ||||||||
| 20 October 1944 | |||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1941 | 4,500,000 | ||||||||
| Currency | Serbian dinar Reichsmark | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Serbia Kosovo[b] | ||||||||
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The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (German: Gebiet des Militärbefehlshabers in Serbien; Serbian: Подручје Војног заповедника у Србији, romanized: Područje vojnog zapovednika u Srbiji) was a German-occupied region of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II, encompassing modern Serbia and adjacent areas. The Territory was established in April 1941 following the invasion of Yugoslavia by the German Wehrmacht with other Axis powers, and existed throughout the war in Yugoslavia until the German withdrawal in 1944. The Territory was nominally governed by a Serb puppet government under Nazi control. German forces in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia committed war crimes in their suppression of Yugoslav Partisan activity and perpetrated the Final Solution in Serbia; the Germans were actively aided by Serbian collaborators.
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