Belladonna by Daša Drndić

Author:Daša Drndić [Drndić, Daša]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Fiction, World War II, War, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780811227223
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2017-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

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* Independent State of Croatia.

† In September 1941 he is arrested and taken to the camp at Banjica, where he is interrogated and tortured. In the camp he is executed by the SS Major and doctor Friedrich Jung.

‡ Franz Friedrich Böhme (Austria, April 15, 1885–Germany, May 29, 1947). After graduating from the Military Academy in Graz, he serves in the Austro–Hungarian army as an officer in the Headquarters. In 1938 he is appointed Chief of Staff of the Austrian army. He was also military observer in the war in Abyssinia. He takes part in the military campaign in Poland and France. He comes to Serbia in September 1941, with exceptional powers granted him personally by Hitler. Remembered for the infamous punitive expedition of September to December 1941, which left devastation and death in its wake. He introduces the “death key”: a hundred Serbs for one dead German and fifty for each German wounded. Up to December 5, 1941, (in just two and a half months) 11,164 hostages and 3,562 insurgents are shot. After this “mission,” Franz Böhme leaves Serbia and is reassigned as army general to Norway, where he is arrested. At his trial in Nuremberg he states that everything he did was in order for the population of Serbia “to achieve tranquility and peace as soon as possible.” On May 29, 1947, he commits suicide by jumping from the fourth-floor window of the prison where he is interned. He is buried in Friedhof St Leonhard in Graz.

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