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==== Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia ====
{{Main|Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia|Government of National Salvation}}
The [[Government of National Salvation]], also referred to as the Nedić regime, was the second Serbian puppet government, after the [[Commissioner Government]], established on the [[Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia|Territory of the (German) Military Commander in Serbia]]{{#tag:ref|Official name of the occupied territory translated from {{langx|de|Gebiet des Militärbefehlshaber Serbiens}}, a German occupied territory.<ref name="Hehn">[[#Hehn_1971|Hehn (1971)]], pp. 344–373</ref>|group=nb}} during [[World War II]]. It was appointed by the German Military Commander in Serbia and operated from 29 August 1941 to October 1944. Although the Serbian puppet regime had some support,<ref>{{cite book|last=MacDonald|first=David Bruce|title=Balkan holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian victim-centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia|year=2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|location=Manchester|isbn=0719064678|page=142}}</ref> it was unpopular with a majority of Serbs who either joined the Yugoslav Partisans or [[Draža Mihailović]]'s [[Chetniks]].<ref>{{cite book |last=MacDonald |first=David Bruce |title=Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation |year=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-08572-9 |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QoNONBC5K8C&pg=PA167}}</ref> The Prime Minister throughout was General [[Milan Nedić]]. The Government of National Salvation was evacuated from Belgrade to [[Kitzbühel]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] in the first week of October 1944 before the German withdrawal from Serbia was complete.

Racial laws were introduced in all occupied territories with immediate effects on Jews and Roma people, as well as causing the imprisonment of those opposed to Nazism. Several concentration camps were formed in Serbia and at the 1942 Anti-Freemason Exhibition in Belgrade the city was pronounced to be free of Jews (Judenfrei). On 1 April 1942, a Serbian Gestapo was formed. An estimated 120,000 people were interned in German-run concentration camps in Nedić's Serbia between 1941 and 1944. However the [[Banjica Concentration Camp]] was jointly run by the German Army and Nedic's regime.<ref name="Israeli2013">{{cite book|author=Raphael Israeli|title=The Death Camps of Croatia: Visions and Revisions, 1941–1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M66fG2bhi1AC&pg=PA31|access-date=12 May 2013|date= 2013|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-4930-2|page=31}}</ref> 50,000 to 80,000 were killed during this period. Serbia became the second country in Europe, following Estonia, to be proclaimed Judenfrei (free of Jews). Approximately 14,500 Serbian Jews – 90 percent of Serbia's Jewish population of 16,000 – were murdered in World War II.

Nedić was captured by the Americans when they occupied the former territory of Austria, and was subsequently handed over to the Yugoslav communist authorities to act as a witness against war criminals, on the understanding he would be returned to American custody to face trial by the Allies. The Yugoslav authorities refused to return Nedić to United States custody. He died on 4 February 1946 after either jumping or falling out of the window of a Belgrade hospital, under circumstances which remain unclear.