On this day, 8 February 1943, Lepa Svetozara Radic, a 17-year-old anti-Nazi partisan from Bosnia-Herzegovina was captured by the Germans. She was to be hanged, but as the noose was tied around her neck her captors offered her her life if she gave up the names of her comrades, but she responded that she was not a traitor and her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.
By 11 February German soldiers reported the execution had taken place and that the “bandit” had “shown unprecedented defiance”.
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