1. Civil War in the Former Yugoslavia
... they could engage and hurt in combat but never destroy, German commanders resorted to a policy of reprisals against civilian hostages. For every German soldier killed, one hundred Yugoslavs were to be slain. While for the most part ineffective, it would occasionally convince some Yugoslavs to engage local rather than German enemies in combat. Three important indigenous military forces ... brutal repression of dissent and an appeal for loyalty to the ideals of a fraternal communist state superseding loyalty to the traditional states such as Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. The Ustashi were a...
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