Ущерб, причиненный войной, и политика реституций и репараций Югославии [War Damage and the Policy of Restitution and Reparations in Yugoslavia]

Abstract

The occupiers of Yugoslavia in the Second World War did not limit themselves to war as a means of settling scores with the military force of their opponents, and to aggression as a common means of subjugating independent states; they introduced, along with the comprehensive exploitation of the country's economic wealth, previously unheard-of methods of mass persecution and extermination of the civilian population. As a result of the cruelty of the occupation, from the very beginning, and especially after the rise of the people's liberation war, the number of victims constantly increased, and the forms of criminal activity were varied and numerous. There is not a single rule of international military law, not a single rule on the rights and duties of occupiers, not a single legal or moral norm of humanity, figuring as a positive legal order or generally accepted norms of relations between civilized peoples, which were not grossly violated by the occupiers and their accomplices.