The Director of the Center for Social and Political Research of the Republic of Srpska, Dušan Pavlović, stated that Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff confirmed in the “Jerusalem Post” the initiative of this center directed at the Bundestag, urging Germany to officially acknowledge its responsibility for the genocide against Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
Pavlović emphasized that he is grateful to the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Zuroff, who in that article pointed to almost the same occurrences and presented the same arguments as those mentioned in the official letter from the Center addressed to the Bundestag and other materials from the Center.
“I am grateful to Zuroff for this step, as well as for his principled and scholarly stance regarding historical facts,” Pavlović stressed.
He pointed out that the Republic of Srpska, through its competent and expert institutions, constantly communicates with domestic and international experts, politicians, and the general public about the destructive role of a significant part of German political structures concerning the Republic of Srpska and the Serbian people as a whole.
One such issue is the German initiative regarding the Srebrenica resolution before the UN General Assembly, while that country, Pavlović noted, has never officially acknowledged its catastrophic role and responsibility for the genocide against Serbs in the NDH and the mass crimes in occupied Serbia.
Pavlović reminded that the Social and Political Research Center of the Republic of Srpska has been drawing attention for several years to the destructive role of Germany in this region for more than a century, which resulted in the genocide against Serbs in the NDH, and the fact that today, west of the Drina River, there are just over a million Serbs, nearly 50 percent fewer than 80 years ago.
In this context, the Center sent a letter in April to the President of the German Bundestag, as well as to members of this legislative body, urging them to adopt a resolution on Germany’s responsibility for the genocide against Serbs in the NDH, Pavlović said, adding that the Center has not received an official response to this initiative.
Germany should express remorse for the crimes committed against Serbs, stated the “Jerusalem Post” in an article by the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff, and the honorary consul of Serbia in Israel, Aleksandar Nikolić.
In their joint article, they wrote that the German allies committed horrific crimes against Serbian civilians, with full permission and support from the Nazis, with the Croatian Ustaše being the most prominent, as they launched a campaign of genocide against Serbs, who were mass-murdered in their communities and concentration camps built throughout the NDH, established by the Germans after the occupation of Yugoslavia.
