Danon Dr Jakov - Jadovno 1941.

THE JEWS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (B&H) THROUGH ECONOMY
AND STATISTICS OF AUSTRO-HUNGARY AND SCS KINGDOM
Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina represented a historical
turning point, which, in a short time, brought to radical changes as in economic, cultural so as
on political plan of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was real a new, capitalistic order, which had
no soul but interest. Bosnia as a rich country, fell behind under the heavy burden of Turkish
vilayet, became over night a wide field of work, which, in the spirit of agressive capitalistic
economic politics, was developing. Capitalistic social relations were established in Bosnia and
Herzegovina by economic politics of state centralization, as a leading factor in raising of
industry and other economic branches outside agrar. The state handled the forest and mine
richness in total. For the using of these richness the very state was forced to ask for the credit
arrangements because the domestic private capital did not exit, the foreing one, because of
non-existing of infrastructure, penetrated with difficulty. At the beginning, the development
of mechanical and industrial production regardless of the source of cheap raw materials, and
cheap manpower was slow because of fastened traditionalism (agrar and handicraft trade
guild), and, again, the lack of fresh foreign capital.
Capital procured it self on Austro-Hungarian market, and was returned by taxpayerpeasant,
the incomes from agrar. Austro-Hungary monarchy used collected capital for
building of net of roads, which made possible quicker transition of people, goods and
exploitation of mine and forest riches in the business of international trade, which, in the
basis, was the carrier of the economic and social rebirth in Bosnia with transition of feudal to
capital system of working. In the first two years of occupation, it was performed a real
mobilization of people with the arrangement of working cadre on a wide basis as well as the
beasts of burden and pack, what brought to reconstruction and building of 2.000 kilometres of
the roads.
Further arrangement of military-occupying credit means it came to realization of the
most important goal, from the strategic military-political and economic point of view, and that
was the building of railroad tracks, and the establishment of railway traffic, what suited to the
blooming of international economic trade. It was activated the track of normal-gage in
Bosanska Krajina, long of 104 kilometres on the relation Dobrljin 16 -Banja Luka and joined
with the railrod tracks in the Monarchy (1878/79), and, on that occasion, there were also built
190 kilometres of narrow-gage railroad on the relation of Bos. Brod-Zenica. The lenght of
forest-industrial tracks, which were built by foreign firms, by the end of 1910 amounted to
2000 kilometres. The railways had double assignment, to make faster, as much as possible,
the exploitation of the natural riches of the occupied area, and by employment, to engage
surplus of agrarian population in order to come out of the poverty economically faster, and to
lose the motive for the rebellions against exploitators. As soon as the connections with Solun
and Carigrad established, the trade was more and more oriented toward newly created statepolitical
situation, which was especially used by Vienna and Pesta Jews.
There were two trade lines toward abroad, one that gravitated toward Vienna and
Budapest, and moved toward other Austro-Hungarian markets, and other toward Adriatic sea
and Trst, and again the inside. There were three roads used from Sarajevo, the first one toward
the sea by the means of Konjic, Mostar, Stolac, Trebinje to Dubrovnik., and the second one
16 Forest-industrial firm Dobrljin-Drvar AD was the largest wooden industry in B&H.
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