Photo 1. Execution of more than 20 Germans by firing squad above Vežice in 1945, Rijeka
Rijeka
We bring photos of the horrific shooting of deceived captives!
In World War II, when Tito’s Partisans entered Rijeka, on the hill of the Holy Cross above Vežica, near the Astronomical Center of Rijeka, they shot a group of captured German soldiers who surrendered because guarding the “border” in 1945 no longer made sense. Bunkers, tunnels and various fortifications in that locality can be found even today. In the western part of the hill, the Italian army built a fort with housing for the military crew and an access road to it. At present, this object has been turned into the Astronomical Center of Rijeka. At the foot was the Draga barracks, which was abandoned by the Croatian army in 2004.
The Partisans photographed this crime and left irrefutable evidence of the crime against the captives. The crime was committed by the 12th Dalmatian Strike Brigade. A part of the list of prisoners who were brutally killed still exists. From the photographs, a number of 23 prisoners killed by Pito’s Partisans can be established. The photos also show the faces of Partisans who took part in this crime and are responsible for it, but who have never been prosecuted. There is a possibility that some of these Partisans are still alive today, but the trial has never been initiated.
The incomplete list of the executed captives:
In the communist literature it is mentioned that on 20 April 1945, parts of the German 1049th Regiment and 705th Battalion, due to the hits they suffered from the 12th Brigade near Škrljevo, Bakar, Sv. Kuzma and Točilo on 19 April, were so shaken and demoralized that they were not eager to fight further. Negotiators were sent to them with the message that they need to surrender; that the entire crew, which is located at elevation 206 and Sv. Ana needs to surrender, and their lives would be spared. Since the photos of the shooting of the prisoners were already known to exist, the communist regime had to justify that execution in its already well-known censored literature, and they did it by alleging that during the negotiations, reinforcements for the Germans arrived, which entirely changed the situation. Allegedly, the Germans killed two of their own soldiers who were sent by the Partisans as their prisoners for the negotiations at elevation 206 and Sv. Ana. The Germans killing their people for no reason is another fact which demonstrates the illogic and unfounded false claims of the regime’s censored literature. The number of prisoners also confirms the fact that on the hill of the Holy Cross, Germans did not receive any reinforcements and that it was a matter of established doctoring and censoring of historical truth by the Yugoslavian regime.
Sources:
Nikola Anić, Dvanaesta dalmatinska udarna brigada (12th Dalmatian Strike Brigade), Brač, 1984.
Hrvoje Tica, original research article, Pitanje autentičnosti izvješća Dvanaeste dalmatinske udarne brigade (On the authenticity of the 12th Dalmatian Strike Brigade’s report), Zagreb, 1993.
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