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Several historians view Chetnik actions against Muslim and Croats as constituting genocide. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the Chetniks in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina range from 50,000 to 68,000, while more than 5,000 victims are registered in the region of Sandžak . [ 11 ]
The 1964 census resulted in a death toll of 597,323 for Yugoslavia. The results were declared a secret and were first revealed to the public in 1989. [4] The census committee claimed that the census covered around 56-59%, or 60-65% of deaths. [5] The Yugoslav censuses did not cover the deaths of Axis troops and the victims of Yugoslav Partisans ...
The historian Jozo Tomasevich wrote that the "widespread practice of genocide" was the reason for the high number of casualties of World War II in Yugoslavia: "The most numerous victims were Serbs who perished at the hands of the Ustashas and Croats and Muslims who perished at the hands of the Chetniks."
World War II in Yugoslavia; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Ante Pavelić visits Adolf Hitler at the Berghof; Stjepan Filipović hanged by the occupation forces; Draža Mihailović confers with his troops; a group of Chetniks with German soldiers in a village in Serbia; Josip Broz Tito with members of the British mission
2 World War II. 3 Cold War (1946–1991) 4 Croatian War (1991–1995) ... This is a list of massacres in Yugoslavia during the 20th century. Inter-war period (1919–41)
In 1964, the Yugoslav Federal Bureau of Statistics created a list of World War II victims with 597,323 names and deficiency estimated at 20–30%, giving between 750,000 and 780,000 victims. Together with the estimate of 200,000 "collaborators and quislings" [clarification needed] killed, the total number would reach about one million.
As a consequence of the World War II events in Yugoslavia, the collaboration with Nazi forces and committed war crimes of the German community [33] [34] the Yugoslav Communist government took a reprisals on ethnic citizens of German origin in Yugoslavia: they had their citizenship revoked, their belongings were taken by force, and they were ...
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]