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The following is a list of massacres and mass executions that occurred in Yugoslavia during World War II. Areas once part of Yugoslavia that are now parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, and Montenegro; see the lists of massacres in those countries for more details.
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
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."
2 World War II. 3 Cold War (1946–1991) ... View history; General What links here; ... This is a list of massacres in Yugoslavia during the 20th century.
Since World War II, scholars and Holocaust institutions have advanced diverse estimates of the number of victims killed at Jasenovac, ranging from 1.1 million to 30,000. [170] Historian Tomislav Dulić disputed the previously often quoted 700,000 figure in Jasenovac, but stated that an estimated 100,000 victims still makes it one of the largest ...
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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 ...
The foibe massacres (Italian: massacri delle foibe; Slovene: poboji v fojbah; Croatian: masakri u fojbama), or simply the foibe, were mass killings and deportations both during and immediately after World War II, mainly committed by Yugoslav Partisans and OZNA in the then-Italian territories [a] of Julian March (Karst Region and Istria), Kvarner and Dalmatia, against local Italians (Istrian ...