On February 8th, 1943, Nazis hung 17 year old Yugoslav Radić. When they asked her the names of her companions, she replied: "You will know them when they come to avenge me.”

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image showing On February 8th, 1943, Nazis hung 17 year old Yugoslav Radić. When they asked her the names of her companions, she replied: "You will know them when they come to avenge me.”

Runlikehell67 on June 11st, 2019 at 19:26 UTC »

After reading up on this incredibly brave young woman, I realized what a coward I am.

Fighting against the Axis power in Yugoslavia as they put the noose around her neck: "Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!" And when asked to give up the parties leaders she replied: "I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man."

to_the_tenth_power on June 11st, 2019 at 20:19 UTC »

On 10 April 1941, after the successful invasion of Yugoslavia, the Axis powers established on its former territory the puppet state Independent State of Croatia, which, in particular, consisted of Bosanska Gradiška and its surroundings.

In November 1941, Lepa Radić and other family members were arrested by the Ustaše, but with the help of undercover partisan associates, she, along with her sister Dara, managed to escape from prison on 23 December 1941. Right after the release, Radić decided to serve as a fighter in the 7th partisan company of the 2nd Krajiški Detachment.

In February 1943 Lepa Radić was responsible for transporting the wounded in the battle of Neretva to a shelter in Grmech. During the fight against the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen she was captured and moved to Bosanska Krupa where, after torture for several days in an attempt to extract information, was sentenced to death by hanging.

With the noose around her neck, she cried out: "Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!" In her last moments at the scaffold, the Germans offered to spare her life, in return for the names of the Communist Party leaders and members in the shelter, but she refused their offer with the words: "I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man." Lepa Radić was only 17 years old when she was publicly executed.

What an absolute badass.

AcademicAxolotl on June 11st, 2019 at 20:48 UTC »

Why did the Nazis take a photo of hanging a 17 year old girl? Were they proud or was it propaganda?