The bodies of civilians hanged by the Germans at a cemetery in Pančevo, Serbia, on April 23, 1941, during the Eastern Front of World War II.

　　The bodies of civilians hanged by the Germans at a cemetery in the city of Pancevo, Serbia, on April 23, 1941, during the Eastern Front of World War II. Two German SS men were shot and killed in Panchevo, Serbia, two nights earlier. In retaliation, 18 civilians were shot dead by the Wehrmacht. An additional 17 men and one woman were hanged.

　The woman hanging in the middle of the hanged bodies owned a restaurant. Underneath, the Germans discovered a tunnel leading to the cemetery, which they suspected to be the sniper's escape route. The woman was the owner of the restaurant, and from there there was a secret 200-meter passage leading to the cemetery. Two nights before the hanging, two German SS men were shot dead from the cemetery. All the suspects who were hanged were captured in the area around the cemetery. A cameraman attached to the German propaganda unit filmed the massacre.

　 From April 6 to April 18, 1941, Panchevo was occupied during the German invasion of Yugoslavia; on April 12, 1941, Wehrmacht soldiers and others were attacked by three members of the Royal Yugoslav Army before the state surrendered. Nine Volksdeutsche (Volksdeutsche) members of the paramilitary Mannschaft and members of Das Reich, a division of the SS SS, were attacked. In retaliation for the attack, 36 Serbs were killed by hanging and shooting. The invasion of Yugoslavia was a German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by Axis forces during World War II that began on April 6, 1941 and ended with the occupation on April 18.