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World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
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1939–1945 global conflict
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Kragujevac massacre
1941 massacre by Nazi forces in Serbia
The Kragujevac massacre was the mass murder of between 2,778 and 2,794 mostly Serb men and boys in Kragujevac by German soldiers on 21 October 1941. It occurred in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II, and came as a reprisal for insurgent attacks in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)