A street damaged by the Luftwaffe’s bombing of Belgrade, April 1941. German Field Marshal Paul von Kleist said during the postwar Nuremberg Trials: 'The air raid on Belgrade in 1941 had a primarily political-terrorist character and had nothing to do with the war. That air bombing was a matter of Hitler’s vanity, his personal revenge,' on the Yugoslav officers who overthrew Yugoslavia’s pro-Axis regent, Prince Paul.
