| Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1941–1945 |
| Target | Serbs (largely Serbs of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Attack type | Genocide, ethnic cleansing, massacres, deportation, forced conversion, others |
| Deaths | Several estimates: 217,000 300,000–350,000 200,000–500,000 |
After Germany attacked the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, the USSR began to assist the military campaign of Communist partisans led by Tito; and from the autumn of 1944 regular Red Army troops directly participated in battles in cooperation with the Partisans, especially in the territories of present-day Serbia.In April 1941, Germany established a military occupation administration in Serbia, and an indigenous administration and police force nominally supervised by a puppet Serb government under former Yugoslav general Milan Nedic.
How many Serbs died in WW1 : According to the first estimates presented at the Paris Peace Conerence of 1919, total Serbian casualties were 1,250,000, over 400,000 of which were military losses while the rest were civilian deaths.
How many Yugoslavs died in WWII
The fighting in Yugoslavia resulted in around 1.2 million deaths out of a population of 14 million. Greek losses were over 300,000 out of a population of 7 million.
What was Hitler’s plan for Serbia : After discussions with both the Romanian and Hungarian governments, Adolf Hitler decided that the Bačka and Banat region would be divided by the river Tisa, with the eastern portion under German occupation along with "Old Serbia". The portion west of the Tisa was occupied and annexed by Hungary.
The Turks
The Turks continued their conquest until they finally seized the entire Serbian territory in 1459 when Smederevo fell into their hands. Serbia was ruled by the Ottoman Empire for almost five centuries. The Turks persecuted the Serbian aristocracy, determined to physically exterminate the social elite.
Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip shooting Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the spark which caused WW1, there is no doubt about it. Austria blaming Serbia was the consequence, leading up to the War. But the actual cause goes way beyond the assassination of an Austrian prince by a Bosnian Serb.
Who did Serbia support in WWII
the Axis
On 27 March 1941, the day after the head of the Yugoslav government Dragiša Cvetković signed a Tripartite Pact which committed the country to an alliance with the Axis, a group of Yugoslav Army Officers, led by General Dušan Simović carried out a coup d'etat and annulled the treaty with Hitler.Serbia was occupied by German troops, but the northern territories were annexed by Hungary, and eastern and southern territories to Bulgaria. Kosovo and Metohija were mostly annexed by Albania which was under the sponsorship of fascist Italy.Serbia was not a separate country during WWII – it was part of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was on the allied side from the time of the German invasion on.
During WWII the Independent State of Croatia was established – a puppet state of the Nazi regime, ruled by the racist, fascist “Ustaša” party. The Ustaša established a number of concentration and extermination camps, in which over 500,000 Serbians were murdered, along with tens of thousands of Jews and Roma (Gypsies).
How many Serbs died in ww1 : According to the first estimates presented at the Paris Peace Conerence of 1919, total Serbian casualties were 1,250,000, over 400,000 of which were military losses while the rest were civilian deaths.
Who saved Serbia in ww1 : French and Serbian troops finally made a breakthrough in the Vardar Offensive in 1918, after most German and Austro-Hungarian troops had withdrawn. This breakthrough was significant in defeating Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary, which led to the final victory of World War I.
Who attacked Serbia in ww2
Ten days later, Germany launched the invasion of Yugoslavia with an immense dawn aerial attack on Belgrade on 6 April. The bombing of the capital destroyed large proportions of the city and left between two and three thousand civilians dead and many more thousands wounded.
1,250,000
According to the first estimates presented at the Paris Peace Conerence of 1919, total Serbian casualties were 1,250,000, over 400,000 of which were military losses while the rest were civilian deaths.