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WW2 Massacre event

Banski Grabovac massacre
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
Location	Banski Grabovac, Independent State of Croatia
Date	24-25 July 1941
Target	Serbs
Attack type	Summary executions
Deaths	1,100–1,200
Perpetrators	Ustaše

The Banski Grabovac massacre was the mass killing of 1,100-1,200 Serb civilians by the Croatian fascist Ustaše movement on 24-25 July 1941, during World War II.

After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Adolf Hitler set up the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a puppet state ruled by the fascist Croatian Ustaše regime led by Ante Pavelić. The Ustaše then embarked on a campaign of genocide against the Serb, Jewish and Roma population within the borders of the state.

The massacre occurred after acts of resistance against the NDH by armed Serbian peasants. The first major clash between the Ustaše and anti-fascists in the territory of Croatia took place in the village of Banski Grabovac on July 23-24 when 42 rebels charged a municipal building and train station, seizing more than 50 rifles. On July 24-25, the Ustaše captured the village and arrested more than 1,200 Serbs from surrounding villages. Approximately 800 people were shot and killed on the spot while others were taken to the Jadovno concentration camp and killed there. Nearly the entire village's Serb population was annihilated. Those killed on location were buried in mass graves near the village's station.

References

^ Biondich, Mark (2011). The Balkans: Revolution, War, and Political Violence Since 1878. Oxford University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-19929-905-8.
Hoare, Marko Attila (2006). Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943. Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-19726-380-8. On 24–25 July, the Ustashas massacred 1,200 people at Grabovac near Petrinja
Molnar, Christopher A. (2019). Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany. Indiana University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-25303-775-6.
Byford, Jovan (2020). Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-350-01598-2.
^ Tomic, Yves (7 June 2010). "Massacres in dismembered Yugoslavia, 1941-1945". sciencespo.fr. The Paris Institute of Political Studies.
^ "WWII Serb victims commemorated in Croatia". B92.net. 22 July 2012.

v t e Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia
Background	Demographics of Croatia Serbs of Croatia Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbs in Vojvodina
Prelude	Anti-Serb sentiment Nazi racial policy Invasion of Yugoslavia Ustaše Ustaše Militia The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia Greater Croatia Croatisation Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians Catholic clergy involvement with the Ustaše Croatian Orthodox Church
Concentration camps	Jasenovac list of prisoners Stara Gradiška Đakovo Sisak Gospić Jadovno Lepoglava Danica Lobor Kerestinec Jastrebarsko Slana Kruščica Sajmište Gornja Rijeka
Massacres	Banski Grabovac Banja Luka Garavice Glina Rašića Gaj Gudovac Blagaj Voćin Prebilovci Gacko Pridvorica Ivanci Voćin Sarajevo (Villa Luburić) Kozara Syrmia
Perpetrators	Ante Pavelić Mile Budak Julije Makanec Nikola Mandić Ademaga Mešić Džafer Kulenović Andrija Artuković Mladen Lorković Slavko Kvaternik Antun Najžer Petar Brzica Miroslav Filipović Vjekoslav Luburić Ivica Matković Ljubo Miloš Ante Vrban Ivo Rojnica Dinko Šakić Dido Kvaternik Jure Francetić Alija Šuljak Viktor Gutić Miroslav Matijević
Notable victims	Jovo Bećir Špiro Bocarić Đorđe Bogić Milan Butozan Nada Dimić Branko Dobrosavljević Vukašin Mandrapa Muhamed Mehmedbašić Rafailo Momčilović Platon of Banja Luka Sava Šumanović Sava Trlajić Dositej Vasić Petar Zimonjić
Armed resistance	Đurđevdan uprising Eastern Herzegovina uprising Drvar uprising Srb uprising
Humanitarianism	Diana Budisavljević
Trials	Trial of Mile Budak Operation Gvardijan Trial of Aloysius Stepinac
Bibliography	The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican Encyclopedia of Genocide The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965 Hitler–Beneš–Tito Viktor Novak Jozo Tomasevich Smilja Avramov Enver Redžić Antun Miletić Vasilije Krestić Mark Biondich Rory Yeomans Paul Mojzes Veljko Đurić Mišina Dejan Jović Hrvoje Klasić Serbian historiography
Cultural depictions	Eagles Fly Early (book, film) Black Birds The End of the War The Dagger The Diary of Diana B. Dara of Jasenovac Zaveštanje
Aftermath	Bleiburg repatriations Stone Flower Terrorism in Yugoslavia
Denial	Jasenovac – istina Far-right politics in Croatia

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