 Jews in Croatian Ustashe-occupied Syrmia, were sent to concentration camps in the Croatia, such as Jasenovac where approximately 17,000 of a total population of 20,000 in Croatia were likewise killed.Although the "Wehrmacht", after the war, stated that it took no part in the genocidal programmes, General Böhme and his men planned and executed the slaughter of over 20,000 Jews and Gypsies without any signal from Berlin.Of the Jewish population of 16,000 in Serbia Proper, the Nazis murdered approximately 14,500.