When Hitler's "Butcher of Serbia" Paid For What He Did
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Franz Böhme was an Austrian-born Wehrmacht general whose career took him from the Austro-Hungarian Army to senior command positions in Nazi Germany during the Second World War. After the Anschluss in 1938, Böhme entered German military service and later commanded the 32nd Infantry Division during the campaigns in Poland and France. In 1941, his career took a darker turn when he was appointed chief commander of German-occupied Serbia. Following the German invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, resistance grew rapidly across Serbia. Adolf Hitler demanded severe reprisals, and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel ordered that 100 hostages be killed for every German soldier lost and 50 for every soldier wounded. Appointed to suppress the uprising in September, Böhme implemented this policy and encouraged his troops to view their campaign as revenge for Serbia’s role in the First World War. The consequences were devastating. After resistance fighters attacked German troops at Gornji Milanovac, occup
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