Battle of Zvornik
| Battle of Zvornik | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of World War II in Yugoslavia | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Yugoslav Partisans |
 Germany  Independent State of Croatia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Koča Popović (commander) Filip Kljajić † (political commissary) | Rudolf Lüters (general) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 3500–5000 | 450–2,000 | ||||||
The Battle of Zvornik (
Ustasha troops of the occupying Independent State of Croatia
.
Operation
Preparation for the offensive on the occupied town of
1st Proletarian Brigade began in June 1943.[2] On the order of the brigades commander Koča Popović
, the troops began their attack on the night of 4 July 1943.
The idea of the attack was that during the night the sudden, powerful onslaught could takeover the
Drina river
into Serbia. Many people died crossing the Drina.
Bosniak village Liplje on a mountain near Zvornik and buried. Kljajić's body was later taken from that spot by his family and reburied in a family plot elsewhere. A memorial was erected on the spot where his corpse was originally buried. Following the ethnic cleansing of Liplje in 1992 at the start of the Bosnian War
, the memorial suffered and became overgrown with shrubbery.
Aftermath
Drina."[6]
References
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- ^ "Dokumenti centralnih organa KPJ NOR i revolucija (1941–1945): (16. septembar-31. decembar 1941)". 1985. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ Čolaković, Rodoljub (1962). "Winning Freedom". Retrieved 29 March 2016.