On the night of 24–25 April 1945, 43 German Sinti men, women, and children hiding in Hrastina near Zagreb were killed and burned in a barn. Sources disagree about the perpetrators: a Council of Europe factsheet and the RomaSintiGenocide.eu chronology identify a retreating German SS unit, while a later Jasenovac Memorial Area publication attributes the massacre to Ustaša members. This entry preserves the atrocity and flags the unresolved attribution rather than choosing between conflicting institutional accounts.
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What is disputed about the Hrastina massacre?
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Institutional sources give conflicting perpetrator attributions; the entry states that uncertainty.
All sources agree about which force carried out the Hrastina massacre.
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The Council of Europe and Croatian memorial sources attribute it differently.