I have met Julia Gorin a few times when she used to live in New York. Now since we're both right wing and Jewish, and have blogs, I decided to write to her to have her clarify once and for all, if Serbs are friends of the Jews. I also told her about the forum, and how the Serbs here love her, and send her their regards.
Anyway, here's what Julia wrote to me:
that's a favorite ploy. they also like to say that Belgrade was the first
"Juden Frei" city in Yugoslavia. The Croats WERE Nazis. The Serbs resisted,
which is why the Sajmiste camp was placed smack in the middle of Belgrade as
opposed to remote areas like every other camp on the planet. It was to
intimidate the Serbs, who weren't easily intimidated. The Nedic guy was the
one who was set up in a similar fashion to the Vichy Regime, when it was
clear that Serbia wasn't going to be able to resist the Germans. However, of
ALL the people in Europe, the Serbs resisted more than anyone, knowing it
was a suicide mission. So like every other invaded country, there was a
local regime installed that would cooperate. Initially, there'd been a
Serbian prince who decided to cooperate with the Germans a little
prematurely, a little too easily, and the Serbs overthrew him. It was only
later, when Serbia was being occupied by the Germans, that it succumbed. The
important difference is that Croatians and Albanians killed or rounded up
Jews willingly on their own--no occupying army necessary. In fact, the
comparatively humanitarian Nazis had to interfere with the Croats, because
the creative things they were doing to Serbs were getting back to the
occupied population and that population was revolting, causing problems for
the Germans.
The Serbs have no history of anti-Jewish shtick. What there is of it
today--and there is less among Serbs than ALL the former Yugoslav
peoples--is very new, caused by the fact that Jews so easily fell for the
Croatian and Albanian and Bosnian propaganda against Serbs, and supported
bombing Serbia.
Serbs and Jews died in camps together. Not Croats and Jews. Not Bosnian
Muslims and Jews. Not Albanians and Jews. While Albanians, Bosnians and
Croats were setting up their own Nazi divisions, the Serbs were in the camps
with the Jews. There was no Serbian SS division. This makes it all the more
perverted how these animals are able to keep people confused. Albanians like
to say that not a single Jew was given up in Albania. That's becauses the
Italians were the ones occupying Albania, not the Germans. And Italian
fascists weren't interested in rounding up Jews. And there were only 200
Jews in all of Albania to begin with. Kosovo is a different story; they were
all rounded up. Kosovo was occupied by Germans, and had willing Albanian
Nazis (who are still active there, by the way).
But you're getting this from people who to this day tell people that Draza
Mihailovic was a Nazi collaborator. That man was awarded a U.S medal of
honor posthumously--for fighting both Nazis AND commies at the same time.
But because he was fighting Tito's communist Partisans (because Tito made a
rival of him), that makes it easy for the Serb haters to say: See? Why would
he be fighting the partisans unless he was working for the Germans.
They manage to do this despite the well known fact that Draza and his
guerillas saved 500 American pilots, at great sacrifice to his own people.
It's just amazing. I've been meaning to do a blog on this for some time. Not
on the history, but on current attitudes toward Jews by the various former
Yugoslav people, but just haven't gotten around to it. I'll see what there
is to direct you to, though, because I'm writing this in short-hand.
best,
Julia
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