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World War II begins
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The German army invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Ustasa (Croatian fascist) guards force prisoner into a pit to be shot. Jasenovac concentration camp. Yugoslavia
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—Croatian authorities transferred about 7,000 Jews into German custody.
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Jews from Macedonia board deportation trains
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When Romania withdrew from the Axis and joined the Allies
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German and Croat troops continued to fight in northwestern Yugoslavia until the end
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In April 1945, Croat authorities murdered thousands of people at Jasenovac
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The dam of death
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After World War II, the Yugoslav Union was reestablished under Communist rule