Shooting of Hostages
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Completed: 1954
Sculptor: Frano Kršinić
Genre: Socialist memorial, former Yugoslavia
Croatia was initially allied with Nazi Germany during the National Liberation War (World War II), and Zagreb was the centre of the Croatian fascist organisation known as Ustasha. Eventually, the city was taken by the anti-Axis Yugoslav Partisans (led by Josip Broz Tito) and the Shooting of Hostages monument is dedicated to the city’s 7,000-plus citizens who were murdered by the Ustasha during that period.
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