Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yugoslavia. Serbian Chetniks kept up their wild guerrilla fight against Adolf Hitler and Ante Pavelitch, his Croatian stooge. Yugoslav rebels warned the Nazi commander in Belgrade that they would slaughter 650 German prisoners if he killed any more Yugoslav patriots...
...violent was the Yugoslav revolt that the Nazis were reported sending a whole panzer division of 12,000 men toward Belgrade. To dislodge Yugoslavs from four towns the Nazis had to resort to shelling with 155-mm. guns and dive-bombing. The fight went on, although the Nazis and Stooge Pavelitch's brown-shirted Ustashi lined Yugoslavs up by the dozens and riddled them. In the Banat region 42 bodies swung in a market place for a day and a night. Hangmen noosed the young neck of Gaysin Grodza, a girl of 21 who had bombed a German store...
...week's end revolutionaries and German troops were fighting pitched battles for possession of three Yugoslav towns. Both Germany and Italy rushed fresh troops for the conquest of a country which, theoretically, was already conquered...
...Serbian Chetniks (revolutionaries) and other guerrillas raided Nazi-occupied Yugoslav villages. Four time bombs exploded in Zagreb's central telephone exchange, injuring six Germans and crippling Zagreb's telephone system...
...Yugoslav capital and open city blitzed by Nazis...