Operation Letica

Operation Letica (Serbo-Croatian: Операција Летица /Operacija Letica) was the code name for the failed assassination attempt on Dušan Letica Serbian fascist minister of finance in the Government of National Salvation a Nazi Puppet state during World War II the operation was carried out in Republic Square in Belgrade in the Nazis-occupied territory of Serbia on Tuesday 4 August 1942 by members of the Yugoslav Resistance, Letica was wounded but survived, this led to the massacres killings of civilians and destruction of Belgrade and other cities in Serbia by the Germans and the Belgrade Special Police, and the executions of the plotters on the orders of Milan Nedić and Dušan Letica, all 220 men between over of the ages of 16 18, 36, and 48, were to be executed in Belgrade or were deported to the Banjica concentration camp, the 159 Women and 33 Children were sent to concentration camps and died there, Letica was only failed assassination attempt during the Occupation of Yugoslavia.