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Battle of Zvornik

Battle of Zvornik
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
Date4–5 July 1943
Location
Zvornik, Independent State of Croatia
44°23′3″N 19°6′9″E / 44.38417°N 19.10250°E / 44.38417; 19.10250
Result Successful capture of Zvornik by Partisan forces[1]
Belligerents
Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav Partisans  Germany
 Independent State of Croatia
Commanders and leaders
Koča Popović (commander)
Filip Kljajić † (political commissary)		 Rudolf Lüters (general)
Casualties and losses
3500–5000 450–2,000

The Battle of Zvornik (Serbo-Croatian: Bitka u Zvorniku) was the 1943 capture by the 1st Proletarian Brigade of the occupied Bosnian town Zvornik from the Wehrmacht and the Ustasha troops of the occupying Independent State of Croatia.

  1. ^ Hoare, Marko Attila (1 February 2014). The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War; page 91. ISBN 978-0-19-936531-9. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

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