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The Ustaše's largest genocidal massacres were carried out in Bosanska Krajina and in places in Croatia where Serbs constituted a large proportion of the population including Banija, Kordun, Lika, and northern Dalmatia. Between 300 000– 350 000 Serbs were killed in massacres and in concentration camps like Jasenovac and Jadovno. Some 100,000 ...
The Balkans campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940. In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. Germany sought to aid Italy by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria and attacking Greece from the east.
All but three were later killed by the Ustaše. [69] The Ustaše sent most Jews to Ustaše and Nazi concentration camps—including the notorious, Ustaše-run Jasenovac concentration camp—where nearly 32,000, or 80% of the Jews in the Independent State of Croatia, were killed. [70]
On 16 July, a clemency appeal was rejected by the Presidium of the National Assembly. During the early hours of 18 July, Mihailović, together with nine other Chetnik and Nedić's officers, were executed in Lisičji Potok. [96] This execution essentially ended the World War II-era civil war between the communist Partisans and the royalist Chetniks.
2 World War II. 3 Cold War (1946–1991) 4 Croatian War (1991–1995) 5 Bosnian War (1992–1995) ... The Zagreb rocket attacks were one of the many massacres in Croatia.
On 24 July, over 800 Serb civilians were killed in the village of Vlahović. [117] Between 29 June and 7 July 1941, 280 Serbs were killed and thrown into pits near Kostajnica. [125] Large scale massacres took place in Staro Selo Topusko, including in the village of Pecka with 250 victims, [126] and Perna where 427 old men and children were ...
The Novi Sad raid (Serbian Cyrillic: Рација; also known as the Raid in southern Bačka, the Novi Sad massacre, the Újvidék massacre, or simply The Raid) was a massacre carried out by the Királyi Honvédség, the armed forces of Hungary, during World War II, after the Hungarian occupation and annexation of former Yugoslav territories.
At the same time sizable part of the local administration, the soldiers recruited in the Bulgarian Army and the police officers stationed in Vardar Macedonia were native from the area. [ 148 ] [ 149 ] Even the only victim of the attack on 11 October 1941, celebrated today as the day of the Macedonian Uprising against fascism, was a local man ...