years later. All in all both sides had a vast number of casualties. Germany suffered about 600 soldiers killed in action with about 1,600 wounded and another 150 missing. The Italians lost roughly 1,600 soldiers and another 1,000 were captured. The Chetniks lost roughly 3,000 soldiers bringing an estimated Axis loss of 7,000-8,600 soldiers. The Partisans had a heavy casualty rate of about 12,000 with about 2,500 captured and another 600 executed. During the fighting thousands of civilians were either
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In her novel “They Would Never Hurt a Fly”, author Slavenka Drakulic spends a majority of the book individually examining and discussing criminals from the Yugoslav war. One of the primary focuses of each individual was questioning how such commonplace individuals could alter themselves into the seemingly callous and unfeeling instigators of war crimes. Drakulic argues that these men were transformed by the constant alienation of the “other” group by both the government and key power figures. The
The Cellist of Sarajevo “There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage… between compromise – even calculated risks – and irresponsibility and capitulation” (Ehud Barak). Sarajevo was a city under siege by the Chetniks. People who resided in Sarajevo during that time became prisoners in their town. They had to compromise something to live. Whether it was their humanity for safety or their safety for integrity. By giving up something, their moral compass was breached and
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Slovenia 1945 is a well-crafted blend of personal memories, historiography, and eyewitness accounts. The result is moving narrative that avoids the turgidity and dryness historical studies may fall prey to, as well as the indulgent emotionalism of some memoirs. The starting point for the volume was the letters written by John Corsellis, a conscientious objector working in the Friends Ambulance Unit in Austrian Carinthia from 1945 to 1947. This material was fleshed out with several dozen interviews
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