The Wehrmacht established a concentration camp at the end of September 1941 in the Serbian village of Jarak (community of Sremska Mitrovica) (map 7), as the result of an order of the Plenipotentiary Commanding General in Serbia (Bevollmächtigter kommandierender General in Serbien) dated September 23, 1941. The occasion for the creation of the camp was the firing of a machine gun and rifles at German patrols in the town of Šabac on September 23, 1941. In retribution, on September 24, 1941, the Plenipotentiary Commanding General ordered the 342nd Infantry Division to arrest all the male residents of Šabac between the ages of 14 and 70 and put them in the newly created camp north of the River Sava1 (that is, in the village of Jarak). Initially, the camp was under the command of the 342nd Infantry Division, and then, in accordance with orders of the Quartermaster (Quartiermeister) of the Plenipotentiary Commanding General dated September 25 and 27, 1941,2 it was under the Chief of Milit...