MEMORANDUM by the Serbian Orthodox Church Sent to General Heinrich Dankelmann, Commander in Chief of the Nazi occupational forces in Serbia in August 1941 Introduction The purpose of this pamphlet is to educate the wider global public of the Genocide of Serbs and events which took place in Croatia and Bosnia- Herzegovina at the start of the Second World War when Germany occupied and dismembered the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (formed in 1918). These events were detrimental in the subsequent conflicts of the Yugoslav dissolution 1991-1995 and for present day etatist tensions. State formation in the Balkans in the 20th century had been tragic for the humanity as a whole as the annihilation included progressive individuals and others of all racial groups, religions and dominations with particular aim eradication the Serbian nation. This was historically the first genocide of comparable proportions perpetuated in the area since the early Middle Ages before even the Ottoman
Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian History