In direct response to the Communist uprising , the Germans decreed that 100 Serbian civilians would be executed for every German soldier killed and 50 would be executed for every German soldier wounded . This policy culminated in the Kragujevac massacre of October 1941 , in which a division of Ljotić 's volunteers was involved . Earlier that month , the Chetniks and Partisans had ambushed a column of German soldiers near Gornji Milanovac , killing 10 and wounding 26 . The Germans turned to Kragujevac for retaliation , not because of anti-German activity in the town but because not enough adult males could be found otherwise to meet the required quota for executions
Kragujevac massacre
Kragujevac massacre
Dimitrije Ljotić