DISCIPLINARY UNITS IN THE YUGOSLAV ARMY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300260010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 29, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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lu doh Ara b $ one or rsovoral disciplinary battalions composed of the Co mdtmN
Officer, the political Coemisear and staff, rand three oomps*t*e of apgroxl atoly
100 soisdieer-prisoners. Th eso wits include deserters, political suspects, Sabo-
tours, and other political deliucluantoo
20 Seldieere incorporated in those battalions are used for physical work. Food,
clothing, and tkhoes are it a worse condition the! in any other unit in the Yugoslav
Az W. Political co icsars are maklag use of e.ll methods to reeducate the prisoners
Starvation, thirst, flogging, and incarceration are, as in civilian concentration
camps, the main pusishntestt., The prisoners remain from six to twelve mouths with
these sanity and are thou reincorporated in their original units, provided their
political shied.,, have realized that they ha+vo ehangsd. If nee, their reeducation
is cont ued?,
3U )Xriag the war, the fire t disciplinary battalions were sacrificed and placed on
the most dangerous and difficult positions, for inetanoc, along the Brea battle
treat,.
4, The disciplinary, battalion for the First -&ray is located in V ladsno-mo., The
disciplinary battalion for the Third Army is located in Feetrovaradia, and resembles
the worst Nazi oanoaoutration camps its me'-d
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