CALCONCO

War victims

The official Yugoslav post-war estimate of victims in Yugoslavia during World War II is 1,704,000. The majority of the victims were Serbs, targeted in a planned genocide in NDH (Croatia), and who also constituted the bulk of both Partisan and Royalist Chetnik guerrilla forces.

However, the number of 1.7 million was later disputed as being deliberately exaggerated for war reparations from Germany. Germany refused to pay reparations until names were provided of the victims, following which another investigation showed only half the number of victims. Subsequent data gathering in the 1980s by historians Vladimir Žerjavić (Croatian) and Bogoljub Kočović (Serb) showed that the actual number of dead was about 1 million. Both arrived at an almost equal figure during independent, unrelated studies.

This was later confirmed by Professor Vladeta Vučković, Serbian author of the official 1946 Yugoslav document, who agreed with Žerjavić and Kočović estimations. Vučković has stated that he had calculated demographic loss at 1,700,000 (i.e. including those not born, deaths by starvation, diseases, etc.), and later that number was interpreted as actual number of victims and presented by Yugoslav delegation at a peace conference later that year in Paris.

Other sources have confirmed their figures:

"Details of the (Yugoslav) 1948 census were kept secret but, in negotiations with Germany, it became apparent that the real figure of the dead was about one million. An American study in 1954 calculated 1,067,000.Following Tito's death in 1980, the 1948 census results became available for comparison with those of 1931. Allowances had to be made for the birth rates of the different communities and for emigration. Research was pioneered by Professor Kočović, a Serb living in the West, whose findings were published in January 1985. He assessed the number of dead as 1,014,000. Later that year a Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Conference heard that the figure was 1,100,000.In 1989, Vladimir Zerjavic, a Croatian living in Zagreb published, with the aid of the Zagreb Jewish community, his calculation of 1,027,000. ... So a figure of about one million for all Yugoslavia is now generally accepted."

Žerjavić's and Kočović's calculations of war losses in Yugoslavia during WW2 were accepted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

A list compiling individual names of victims has reached only 600,000. Regardless of the EXACT numbers, look at the dead in Croatia and Bosnia regions and tell me why the Serbian population was so low in 1990s! Hell, Jews in Poland were wiped out to the tune of over 2 million . . . and guess what, there are few Polish Jews alive! Go Figure . . .

Number of victims by ethnicity is:

Nationality	1946	Kočović	Žerjavić	By name
Albanians	4,000	-	-	-
Bosnian	100,000	86,000	103,000	32,300
Croatian	110,000	207,000	192,000	83,257
Germans	-	26,000	28,000	-
Hungarian	3,000	-	-	-
Jews	60,000	60,000	57,000	45,000
Macedonians	35,000	-	-	-
Montenegrin	50,000	50,000	20,000	16,276
Slovacs	1,000	-	-	-
Slovenians	60,000	32,000	42,000	42,027
Serbs	1,280,000	487,000	530,000	346,740
Turks	686	-	-	-
Others	-	66,000	55,000	31,723
TOTAL	1,703,686	1,014,000	1,027,000	597,323

By region:

Country	1946
Bosnia and Herzegovina	690,000
Croatia	630,000
Kosovo	14,000
Macedonia	40,000
Montenegro	50,000
Slovenia	60,000
Serbia	170,000
Vojvodina	40,000