Raids – Punitive Expeditions of the Wehrmacht in the Villages of the Žica Srez in 1941
Raids by the German army in the surrounding villages that began in September 1941 had the character of selective punitive measures, directed against specific individuals. However, with the spread of the uprising, the intensification of actions and the expansion of the area of influence, the German troops will move on to retaliatory measures against the entire population of a certain place. The consequences of these punitive expeditions were: the suffering of the civilian population, looted and burned households, destroyed crops and decimated livestock.
