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Between [[1929]] and [[1941]], the region was known as the ''[[Danube Banovina]]'', a province of the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]. The capital city was [[Novi Sad]]. ''Danube Banovina'' consisted of [[Syrmia]], [[Bačka]], [[Banat]], [[Baranya (region)|Baranja]], [[Šumadija]], and [[Braničevo]] regions. The population of this province was composed of: [[Serbs]] and [[Croats]] (56.9%), [[Hungarians]] (18.2%), [[Germans]] (16.3%).

The [[Axis Powers]] occupied region between [[1941]] and [[1944]]. Bačka and Baranja were attached to Horthy's Hungary, while Syrmia was attached to the [[Independent State of Croatia]]. A smaller ''Danube Banovina'' (including [[Banat (1941–1944)|Banat]], Šumadija, and Braničevo) existed as part of Serbia between 1941 and 1944. The administrative centre of this smaller province was [[Smederevo]]. However, Banat itself was a separate autonomous region ruled by its German minority. The occupying powers committed numerous crimes against the civilian population, especially against [[Serbs]] and [[Jews]]; the Jewish population of Vojvodina was almost completely killed or deported. During the occupation, about 50,000 people in Vojvodina were murdered, while more than 280,000 people were interned, arrested, violated or tortured (see: [[Crimes of the occupants in Vojvodina, 1941-1944]]). After the liberation in 1944, the [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]] forces retaliated and murdered several thousand people, mainly [[Hungarian people|Hungarians]] and [[German people|Germans]], between [[1944]] and [[1945]]. Most of them were civilians and were not convicted of war crimes. Most of the Germans left Vojvodina after the Axis Powers withdrawed from the region.

[[Image:Zrtve racije01.jpg|thumb|250px|Monument in [[Novi Sad]] dedicated to Serb and Jewish civilians killed by the hand of Hungarian fascists in 1942 raid.]]