Podhum massacre

Podhum massacre
1970 memorial, designed by Šime Vulas, commemorating the 1942 massacre.
LocationPodhum, near Rijeka
Date12 July 1942
TargetCroats
Attack type
Mass murder, reprisals
Deathsat least 91
PerpetratorsItalian Fascist militia

The Podhum massacre was the mass murder of Croat civilians by Italian occupation forces on 12 July 1942, in the village of Podhum, in retaliation for an earlier Partisan attack.

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