how was yugoslavia affected or involved in the holacaust?

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i need to wriet a news artical about this for school and ideas on what to add? or how this country delt with the nazis

Answer 1

Yugoslavia was invaded by Axis powers (including the Nazis) in 1941. Many minorities were put into concentration camps there as elsewhere in Europe, and were eventually killed.


At 5:15 a.m. on April 6, 1941, German, Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian forces attacked Yugoslavia. The Luftwaffe bombed Belgrade and other major Yugoslav cities. On April 17, representatives of Yugoslavia's various regions signed an armistice with Germany at Belgrade, ending eleven days of resistance against the invading German Wehrmacht. More than three hundred thousand Yugoslav officers and soldiers were taken prisoners.

The Axis Powers occupied Yugoslavia and split it up. The Independent State of Croatia was established as a Nazi puppet-state, ruled by the Catholic fascist militia known as the Ustaše that came into existence in 1929, but was relatively limited in its activities until 1941. German troops occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as part of Serbia and Slovenia, while other parts of the country were occupied by Bulgaria, Hungary and Italy. During this time the Independent State of Croatia created concentration camps for anti-fascists, communists, Serbs, Gypsies and Jews, one of the most famous being Jasenovac. A large number of men, women and children, mostly Serbs, were executed in these camps. According to Mile Budak, Croatia planned to kill a third of the Serbs, convert a third to Catholicism, and ethnically cleanse (expel) the last third.