POSTUPCI NOVJ-a PREMA ORUŽANIM SNAGAMA NJEMAČKE I NDH TE CIVILIMA NEVESINJA NAKON ZAVRŠETKA DRUGOGA SVJETSKOGA RATA I U NEPOSREDNU PORAĆU
BEHAVIOUR OF „NOVJ“ AGAINST THE MILITARY FORCES OF GERMANY AND THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA („NDH“) AND THE CIVILIANS OF NEVESINJE AFTER WW II AND IN THE AFTERMATH

Summary/Abstract: Most of the time in WW II battles were fought for the scarcely populated Nevesinje, because of its geographical position. Due to the new military and political circumstances, the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces (Oberkommando des Wehrmachts - OKW) established an active defense called the „green line“. The flanking fortifications were Knin – Široki Brijeg – Mostar – Nevesinje. The aim was to protect the southwestern flank of the battlefield German Army E from the attack of the People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (“NOVJ”) and from the possible landing of allied forces in Dalmatia. The battles for Nevesinje lasted from October 1944 to mid-February 1945, when “NOVJ” units ended its occupation. The Department for the Protection of the People (“OZN-a”) with the help of the regular “NOVJ” units, was ordered to establish a revolutionary communist government by killing innocent civilians and captured members of the German and “NDH” (The Independent State of Croatia) armed forces in that town. In the postwar period of 1945, „NOVJ“ units, with the approval of the „OZN-a“, carried out mass killings of captured Croatian soldiers returning from the Way of the Cross and threw them into Bišina, a pit Novakuša near Nevesinje.

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