A monument has been unveiled in northern Serbia honoring thousands of ethnic Germans killed after World War II.
The cross-shaped monument is at the Catholic cemetery in Sremska Mitrovica, the site of a post-WWII prison camp.
About 520,000 ethnic Germans lived in what the was Kingdom of Yugoslavia before WWII. Many sided with the Nazis during the war and Nazi occupation.
At the end of the war, victorious Communist troops killed thousands of ethnic Germans and expelled some 300,000 in just two years.
Svilara camp in Sremska Mitrovica existed between 1945 and 1947. Hundreds of ethnic German civilians perished there.
An association of ethnic Germans from Serbia said that acknowledging the atrocities and honoring the dead will help reconciliation.
