Guard Along the Drina

Guard Along the Drina

Guard Along the Drina

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Guard Along the Drina

1942

0h 26m

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War

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A compilation of week journals made for Nazi-puppet regime in Croatia during WW II which show the warfare of Ustasha forces against Yugoslav partisans and Chetniks in eastern Bosnia.

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