Hostage shootings in Serbia explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Longerich . Peter . Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews . 2012 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-960073-1 . 270 . en.
2. Book: Shepherd . B. . Pattinson . J. . War in a Twilight World: Partisan and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1939-45 . 2010 . Springer . 978-0-230-29048-8 . 222 . en.
3. Book: Kay . Alex J. . Empire of Destruction

   A History of Nazi Mass Killing

   . 2021 . Yale University Press . 978-0-300-23405-3 . 60–64 . en.
4. Book: Steinberg . Jonathan . All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43 . 2 September 2003 . Routledge . 978-1-134-43655-2 . search "hostages trial" . en.