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TIL WWII concentration camps in Croatia were even more brutal than those in Nazi Germany. Prisoners were cremated alive, disemboweled and thrown in rivers, killed with mallets, drowned in latrines, tied together in groups and thrown down 300m shafts. On a bet, Petar Brzica, cut the throats of 1,360.

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