Hostage shootings in Serbia

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Hostage shootings in Serbia was a policy introduced by the German occupiers of Serbia during World War II in reprisal for Yugoslav Partisan activity. A large number of ethnic Serbs, Romani people, and Serbian Jews (see The Holocaust in German-occupied Serbia) were shot in executions such as the Kraljevo massacre and Kragujevac massacre.[1][2][3] These shootings were punished as war crimes during the Hostages trial.[4]

References

  1. ^ Longerich, Peter (2012). Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews. Oxford University Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-19-960073-1.
  2. ^ Shepherd, B.; Pattinson, J. (2010). War in a Twilight World: Partisan and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1939-45. Springer. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-230-29048-8.
  3. ^ Kay, Alex J. (2021). Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing. Yale University Press. pp. 60–64. ISBN 978-0-300-23405-3.
  4. ^ Steinberg, Jonathan (2 September 2003). All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43. search "hostages trial": Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43655-2.