Dara Kishic The Kragujevac massacre was the massacre of over 5,000 civilians — men, women and schoolchildren — in Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia by the soldiers of Nazi Germany, on 20 October 1941. It was one of the worst massacres during German military occupation of Serbia. The Germans had threatened to shoot 50 Serbs for every wounded German soldier and 100 for each killed. They were attacked in early October near Gornji Milanovac so the massacre was a direct reprisal for the German losses in that battle. On the day of October 19 in the early morning, the whole city was raided. Around 10,000 civilians, aged 16–60, were arrested. A whole generation of high school children was taken directly from their classes. The executions started at 6 PM on the following day. People were shot in groups of 400. The shootings continued into the next day, at a lesser pace. The remaining prisoners were not released, but were held as hostages for further reprisals. (.....) And fifty-five minutes before the moment of death the company of small ones sat at its desk and the same difficult assignments they solved: how far can a traveler go if he is on foot… and so on. Their thoughts were full of the same numbers and throughout their notebooks in school bags lay an infinite number of senseless A’s and F’s. A pile of the same dreams and the same secrets patriotic and romantic they clenched in the depths of their pockets. and it seemed to everyone that they will run for a long time beneath the blue arch until all the assignments in the world are completed.(...) - quote from A Bloody fairytale
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:33:00 +0000
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