Quoting Philip Friedman’s Martyrs and Fighters: The Epic of the Warsaw Ghetto, page 145:
Dozens of those smuggling across the Ghetto Wall are killed by a new [Axis] technique: [gentiles] clad in civilian clothes, with Jewish arm‐bands and weapons hidden in burlap bags, wait for the instant when the smugglers scale the Wall. At that very moment machine pistols appear from the bags and the fate of the group is settled.
(Credits to The Minyan for showing me this. Really short post today, I know, but I lacked a better topic at hand and I ran out of time before I could find one.)
Click here for events that happened today (May 17).
1941: Ustaša Foreign Minister Mladen Lorković reported that a group of Croat soldiers, “following the call of the Poglavnik and the voice of our Croatian blood, rose against the Serb officers and the Serbian army units,” an action that prevented Yugoslavia’s Fourth Army from proceeding to the military front.
