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The list of disasters in Croatia by death toll includes major disasters and accidents ... 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake: Earthquake: Dubrovnik: ... 29 June 1951 [19]
In the summer of 1941, Ustaše militias and death squads burnt villages and killed thousands of civilian Serbs in the country-side in sadistic ways with various weapons and tools. Men, women, children were hacked to death, thrown alive into pits and down ravines, or set on fire in churches. [78]
On 6 April 1941, Axis forces invaded Yugoslavia. Poorly equipped and poorly trained, the Royal Yugoslav Army was quickly defeated. [2] The country was then dismembered and the extreme Croat nationalist and fascist Ante Pavelić, who had been in exile in Benito Mussolini's Italy, was appointed Poglavnik (leader) of an Ustaše-led Croatian state – the Independent State of Croatia (often called ...
The June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina began when Serbs in eastern Herzegovina rebelled against the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia. Born: Robert Hunter, poet, singer and songwriter, in San Luis Obispo, California (d. 2019) Died: Frederick Gottwald, 82, American painter
This incomplete list of earthquakes in Croatia includes major earthquakes with epicenters within the country's current borders, as well as earthquakes that had a significant impact within Croatia. There was no systematic gathering of earthquake data in Croatia before the 19th century.
June 1941 – 1942 Doljani, Donji Lapac: 1,186 Ustaše: Massacre of Serbs by Ustaše. [38] Gacko massacre: 3 June 1941 Korita 133–180 Ustaše: Massacre of Serbs by Ustaše; corpses thrown into the Koritska Jama pit. [30] [39] [29] Knin massacre: 15 June 1941 Knin: c. 60 Ustaše: Massacre of Serbs by Ustaše. [29] Rašića Gaj massacres: 22 ...
Here is how the Catholic Bishop of Mostar, Alojzije Mišić, described this and other massacres perpetrated by the Ustasha around the city of Mostar, in his letter to Bishop Alojzije Stepinac, dated 7 November 1941: People were captured like animals. Slaughtered, killed - thrown alive into the abyss.
The Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) was a World War II–era puppet state of Nazi Germany [8] [9] and Fascist Italy.It was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941, after the invasion by the Axis powers.