Ključ Brdovečki is a

naselje Settlements in Croatia, in Croatian ''naselje'' ( pl. ''naselja'') are the third-level spatial division of the country, and usually indicate existing or former human settlement. Each Croatian city or town (''grad'', pl. ''gradovi'') or municip ...

(settlement) in the

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Brdovec Brdovec is a municipality in the Zagreb County, Croatia. The closest town to Brdovec is neighboring Zaprešić on the east. Demographics According to the 2001 Croatian census, 2001 census, there are 10,287 inhabitants, 92% which are Croats. They ...

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. According to the 2001 census, it has 663 inhabitants living in an area of .

History

The village became the site of a mass grave from May 23–25, 1945 when Axis soldiers were massacred there by the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

.U tri noći partizani poubijali više od 4000 ljudi

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The

Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the German Army (1935–1945), ''Heer'' (army), the ''Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmac ...

had dug anti-tank trenches in the village, which were used to bury the dead. The mass grave was discovered in 2009. It is estimated that there are 4000 bodies in the graves, with many of them being members of the 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht).

References

Populated places in Zagreb County Brdovec {{ZagrebCounty-geo-stub