
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/">
  <dc:description xml:lang="eng">Abstract: 
The founder of the Society for Sociology and Social Sciences – the predeces-
sor of the Serbian Sociological Association – and the journal Sociološki pregled / Sociological
Review – Professor Đorđe Tasić (Vranje, 1892 – Belgrade, 1943) is known to have been a leftist
by his convictions and a member of the left-wing faction of the Agrarian Party. Because of
that, he was exiled from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade during the period of the Kingdom
of Yugoslavia. It is also known that he was executed by shooting in Belgrade, in 1943.
The paper, based on the documents from the Historical Archives of the City of
Belgrade, the State Archives of Serbia, the Archives of Yugoslavia and the Military Archives
of Serbia, shows that, from the very beginning of World War Two (WW2) in Yugoslavia,
he was constantly followed by the Special Police and Gestapo, as well as that he was ar-
rested twice. He was accused both by Gestapo and by German and Serbian informants of
being a mason, a participant in the events of 27 March 1941 a communist, an anti-fascist
and an anti-Nazi, whereas the last two accusations were absolutely true. The first time
he was arrested in November 1941, when he was taken hostage with a large group of
intellectuals. He was taken to the Banjica concentration camp, but was released 23 days
later. Afterwards he was also interrogated by the collaborationist Special Police, which is
proved by the records kept.
Since there is various information in the literature regarding the date and the place of Tasić’s execution, and there are no related documents in the archives or those documents are
rather scarce, according to the reconstruction and the comparison of the data sources, we can
quite certainly claim that he was not executed in the Banjica camp in 1944. The most reliable
information was submitted in 1953 by his pre-war assistant and subsequently academician
Radomir Lukić – that Professor Đorđe Tasić was arrested by Gestapo the second time on 25
August 1943 and executed by shooting the following day. It is highly probable, in the light of
historical research regarding this location, to say that the execution occurred in the Sajmište
concentration camp, which is also a hypothesis by Lukić published in 1984.
The free spirit and the anti-fascist orientation of this great Yugoslav and Serbian intel-
lectual were a sufficient reason to Gestapo to execute him by shooting.
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  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2141-8698">Шуваковић, Урош</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Belgrade: Serbian Sociological Association</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title xml:lang="eng">Professor Đorđe Tasić as an anti-fascist</dc:title>
  <dc:rights>All rights reserved</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>In honor of professor Đorđe Tasić : life, works and echoes </dc:source>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
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  <dc:identifier>https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:33215</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:doi.org/10.18485/ssd_tasic.2023.ch9</dc:identifier>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Keywords: Professor Đorđe Tasić, Yugoslav (Serbian) pre-war sociologists, occupier’s crimes over Serbian intellectuals, World War Two, anti-fascism</dc:subject>
  <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart</dc:type>
  <dc:date>2023</dc:date>
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