In 1933 , Maksimović married Sergej Slastikov , a Russian émigré writer . After being dismissed from her post at the high school by the Germans in 1941 , she was reduced to a state of poverty and forced to work odd jobs to survive the three-year occupation . She was only permitted to publish children 's literature during this period , but secretly compiled a collection of patriotic poems , which were not published until after the war . Among these was '' Krvava bajka '' ( A Bloody Fairy Tale ) , which is about the Wehrmacht 's killing of schoolchildren in the Kragujevac massacre . It was recited extensively in post-war commemorative ceremonies and became one of the best known Serbian-language poems
Kragujevac massacre
Kragujevac massacre
Desanka Maksimović