The Yugoslav Government-in-Exile today submitted to the British and Allied governments a document charging the Hungarian troops occupying northern Yugoslavia with torturing to death and murdering “at least 100,000 Serbians and Jews, including men, women and children.”
Almost the entire Serbian and Jewish populations in the districts of Banat and Bacska occupied by Hungarian military units, have either been massacred or sent to concentration camps, the document stated. It asserted that the Serbs and Jews have been “entirely exterminated from the towns of Subotica, Horgos, Sombor, Backa-Topola and Novi-Sad.”
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