Valpovo work camp

The Valpovo work camp (Croatian: "Radni logor Valpovo") was a camp set up by the communist regime of Yugoslavia for Germans and Austrians in the aftermath of the Second World War. The camp operated from 1945 to 1946.

Germans and Austrians on Croatian territory were considered by the Yugoslavian to be collectively guilty for Nazi crimes. [http://www.osijek.hr/NASTAVAK.ASPX?ID=4483 Memorial to the day of the expulsion of Germans] ] With the fall of the Independent State of Croatia in May of 1945, camps for Croatian Germans were formed in Valpovo, Josipovac, and Krndija. Three thousand people passed through the camp. [http://www.vjesnik.hr/Pdf/2003%5C10%5C05%5C04A4.PDF Monument raised to victims of communist dictatorship 1945-1946] ] From May 1945 to May 1946, 1015 people are known to have died at the camp. [ [http://www.cpi.hr/download/links/hr/7042.pdf Share of children among killed Volksdeutche in Yugoslav camps] ] Prisoners fell victim to hunger and typhoid, among other factors in their harsh living conditions. [ [http://www.hrt.hr/arhiv/2003/10/04/KRV.html Daily news, October 3, 2003] , Croatian Radiotelevision]

In 2003, a monument to the camp's victims was raised. The unveiling was attended by Croatian German officials and the mayor of Valpovo, and was accompanied by a mass by bishop Marin Srakić.

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