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Sarajevo and its surrounding areas were defended by German and NDH forces under command of the German 21st Mountain Corps. After heavy fighting, the city of Sarajevo was liberated on 6th of April. During the pursuit of the enemy, Yugoslav units liberated Visoko, Kakanj and on 10th of April Busovača, which concluded the Sarajevo operation.
During World War II the Kingdom of Yugoslavia put up a very inadequate defense. Following a German bombing campaign, Sarajevo was conquered by the Ustase Croatian fascist Independent State of Croatia , a puppet state of Nazi Germany .
...was a letter sent to Adolf Hitler in the autumn of 1942 by prominent Bosniaks, including the then mayor of Sarajevo, Mustafa Softić, translated and published in Vladimir Dedijer's book "Genocide against Muslims 1942-1945." In a letter or memorandum A brief history of Bosnia and Bosniaks is presented.
The bombing of Sarajevo in the Second World War occurred first in April 1941 [1] then it was followed by a series of Allied bombings between November 1943 until the end of 1944. [2] Between 1943 and 1944, a total of 1,013 tons of bombs were dropped in Sarajevo.
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The siege of Sarajevo, as it came to be popularly known, was an episode of such notoriety in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia that one must go back to World War II to find a parallel in European history.
A World War II drama that critics say glorifies Serbian nationalist groups has sparked outrage at the Sarajevo Film Festival, with organizers under fire for allowing excerpts of the forthcoming ...
Sarajevo (/ ˌ s ær ə ˈ j eɪ v oʊ / SARR-ə-YAY-voh) [5] is the capital [6] and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. [7] [4] The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities is home to 555,210 inhabitants.