Podhum massacre | |
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Location | Podhum, near Rijeka |
Date | 12 July 1942 |
Target | Croats |
Attack type | Mass murder, reprisals |
Deaths | at least 91 |
Perpetrators | Italian 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.[2]