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Execution of 2,000 Nazis - Stripped & Shot for Killing 428 Yugoslavs

Narrator: Marchand Steenkamp. About the story: On 28 July 1944, in the small Montenegrin village of Velika, one of the most brutal civilian massacres of World War II took place. As German forces retreated from the Balkans under pressure from advancing Allied and Partisan troops, they launched Operation Draufgänger, a punitive campaign meant to crush resistance along the Lim River. After suffering defeats near Andrijevica, elements of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division “Prinz Eugen”, together with soldiers of the 21st Waffen Mountain Division “Skanderbeg” and local auxiliary units, descended on Velika in a two-hour frenzy of destruction. They burned homes, looted property, and murdered entire families. More than 428 civilians—mostly women, children, and the elderly—were killed. Survivors described unimaginable scenes: toddlers skinned alive, infants shot in their mothers’ arms, and families burned inside their houses. The cruelty was so extreme that even German officers later tried to suppress internal reports about it. Yet in his daily command briefing, SS General August Schmidhuber praised the operation as a success, boasting of his division’s “achievements.” But the killers did not escape justice forever. Within months, the Skanderbeg Division collapsed, plagued by desertions and disgrace. Himmler disbanded it, folding its remaining ethnic German soldiers into the “Prinz Eugen” Division, now under Schmidhuber’s command. The unit continued committing atrocities in Croatia as it retreated north—until the war ended. Schmidhuber was captured by Yugoslav forces on 11 May 1945, tried for massacres and mass deportations, and hanged in Belgrade in February 1947. His soldiers met an even darker fate. On 11 May 1945, the remnants of the “Prinz Eugen” Division surrendered to Yugoslav forces near Celje, Slovenia. Nearly all were executed without trial. A mass grave uncovered in 2010 revealed more than 2,000 bodies—stripped, bound with wire, and shot. The slaughter in Velika remains one of the least-known but most horrifying crimes committed in the Balkans during the Second World War. More than 1.2 million people died in wartime Yugoslavia—over half of them civilians. Join World History channel and get access to benefits:    / @worldhistoryvideos   Disclaimer: All opinions and comments below are from members of the public and do not reflect the views of World History channel. We do not accept promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on attributes such as: race, nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation. World History has right to review the comments and delete them if they are deemed inappropriate. ► CLICK the SUBSCRIBE button for more interesting clips:    / @worldhistoryvideos   #velika #velikamassacre #WWII #ww2 #nazi #kommando #history #holocaust #documentary #europe #adolfhitler #warcriminals #warcrime #collaborators #worldhistory #worldwar2videos #Wehrmacht #belgrade #yugoslavia #partisans #serbia #montenegro #kosovo Velika massacre, August Schmidhuber, Holocaust in Yugoslavia, Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia , Nazi SS, Nazi war crimes, WW2 war crimes, War trials, Nazi criminals, War criminals, War criminals WW2, German war crimes, SS in Yugoslavia , Yugoslavia WW2, Yugoslavia during WW2, World War 2 Yugoslavia, Jews in Yugoslavia, 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, 7th SS mountain division, Yugoslavia resistance, Yugoslavia in WW2, Yugoslavia partisans, WW2 Yugoslavia, German occupation of Yugoslavia, 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg, Skanderbeg division, Velika massacre, Prinz Eugen division, Unternehmen Strafgericht, Dušan Simović, Operation Draufgänger, Heinrich Himmler and Velika massacre, Otto Kumm in Yugoslavia,