Operation Retribution or Operation Punishment was the April 1941 German bombing of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, in retaliation for the coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed
Bomb-damaged buildings in Belgrade in April 1941
The bomb-damaged Old Palace in central Belgrade, struck during the first wave of bombing on 6 April 1941
A 2008 photograph of the ruins of the old National Library of Serbia, bombed on 6 April 1941
Monument to the Yugoslav pilots killed during Operation Retribution, located in Zemun
A coup d'état took place on 27 March 1941 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, when the regency led by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia was overthrown and King Peter II assumed full monarchical powers. The co
German bombing of Belgrade
…Unternehmen Strafgericht) or Operation Punishment was the April 1941 German bombing of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, in retaliation for the coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite Pact. The bombing occurred in the first days of the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia…
Dušan Simović, King Peter II of Yugoslavia, and Radoje Knežević in London, June 1941. Peter II was declared of age and placed on the throne as a result of the coup.
Minister of the Army and Navy Milan Nedić was fired by prince regent Paul in November 1940 for advocating that Yugoslavia join the Axis.
Peter II, 17 years old at the time of coup, was declared to be of age.
Demonstrations in Belgrade on 27 March