Radosav Tucović, OCCUPATIONAL POLICE FORMATIONS IN SERBIA DURING 1941: STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION, POLICE PRACTICE AND PROBLEMS
DOI 10.29362/2589.tuc.57-72
The article aims to present the development of the structural organization of the German police during the first year of the Axis occupation of Serbia, as well as the basic methodology of police work and the problems that the police organization encountered in the newly occupied territory. The starting point of this work is the assumption that the occupying police institutions were not only based on the structure and methodology of work dictated by the Reich Security Main Office but also adapted to the conditions in the newly occupied territory. In addition to the relevant historiographical literature, completely new historical sources have been used., The main purpose of the article is to explain in principle the first phase of the existence of the German police in occupied Serbia as part of the process that led to the reform and creation of a much more complex police system in early 1942.
