Hanging in NDH
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Systematic hanging in NDH was a particularly characteristic part of the World War II genocide against the Serbs. It was applied against priests and political opponents, in order to humiliate them, and bodies were left to hang for days in public.
The cry Srbe na vrbe!, meaning [Hang] the Serbs on the willow trees!, became a reality. Individual and mass hangings became common, and this terrorization lasted throughout the war. This was particularly so during the last years of their regime.
Examples of systematic hanging include:
- On August 7, 1944, they hanged ten persons at Jablanac.
- On August 26, near Zaprešić, thirty-six people.
- On September 30th, between the stations of Pušća, Bistra and Luka, ten persons.
- On October 4, at Sv. Ivan, twenty-nine persons.
- On October 5, again at Zaprešić, five persons.
- On October 6th, Čučerje, twenty persons.
- On October 9, at Velika Gorica, thirteen persons. On the same day at Sveta Nedjelja, near Samobor, eighteen persons.
- On December 28, at Krušljevo Selo, fifty persons.
The Ustasha mass executions took sundry forms when they didn't hang people:
- Assembling the members of the village outside, and then shooting the lot.
- Shutting a whole congregation inside their church and then setting fire to it.
