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Word: mitrovitza (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid German garrisons, occupy villages, cut rail lines to vital Black Sea ports. Last week they struck hard. Enraged by the execution of 50 hostages as "intellectual instigators" of the Zagreb telephone ex change explosion that killed five Germans (TIME, Sept. 22), revolutionary Chetniks seized the town of Srpska Mitrovitza, disarmed and kidnapped its German garrison. Twelve thousand Chetniks attacked another German-held town. The Germans had to send dive-bombers to disperse them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Not by Prayer | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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