Velika massacre

Velika massacre
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
LocationVelika, German-occupied Montenegro
Date28 July 1944
TargetSerbs
Attack type
Mass killings
Deaths428–550
Perpetrators SS Prinz Eugen
SS Skanderbeg
MotiveReprisal
Anti-Serb sentiment

The Velika massacre was the mass killing of between 428 and 550 Serb civilians by the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen and 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg on 28 July 1944 in the settlement of Velika, in Plav, Montenegro during World War II.