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TIL the Croatian fascist group, the Ustaše, butchered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Croats and Jews with primitive weapons, such as having little children impaled, cutting off women’s breasts, sawing off noses and ears and burned alive. Their crimes even horrified the Nazis.

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