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...record, however, indicates that Waldheim returned to active service. He was sent to Salonika, Greece, as a staff officer and translator under Lohr, the German general responsible for Greece, as well as for Serbia and Croatia. During the period Waldheim served on his staff, Lohr is said to have directed the repression of Yugoslav partisans and the deportation of 40,830 Greek Jews to death camps...
Being an outpost of the Turkish empire meant being of interest to the Hapsburgs' Austro-Hungarian empire, which annexed the whole region known as Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1878. The Hapsburgs' new subjects resented them, and many put their nationalist hopes on the neighboring kingdom of Serbia...
...little harm. Neither did the authorities who convicted him of murder but could not execute him because he was a minor. Sentenced to 20 years, he died of tuberculosis in prison in 1918. By then, the war that started with a punitive Austrian attack on Serbia had bled all of Europe white. But Princip's deed did finally achieve its purpose. In the redrawing of maps that followed the war, the Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved into fragments; both Serbia and Bosnia were included in the new state of Yugoslavia...
...piece of sad news: his mother was killed by German shellfire in the Balkans while on some unspecified patriotic mission. His father is already the cold fish of Brideshead. Says he, after refusing to attend his wife's memorial service: "She had no business to go off to Serbia like that. Do you think it my duty to marry again...
...partisan Dutchmen, is taking no chances for the European Cup final. To help distract the fans after the game, the Belgrade city council has ordered shops and restaurants on the main streets to stay open all night. In addition, virtually the entire police force of the Republic of Serbia will be on duty, trying to keep the peace. Still, Yugoslav authorities are happy to host the game...