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	'''Srbosjek''' (literally ''serb-cutter'' in ], often mentioned as ''cutthroat'') was an especially designed knife, used mostly for speedy slaughter of ] and other victims by the Croatian ] fascists during the WW2 in the ], an Axis puppet state.
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	This knife was manufactured during WW2 by German factory ''Gebrüder Gräfrath'' from Solingen-Widderit (which is still in existence today, albeit under another name) under a special order from the NDH government, and was used for slaughter of ], ] and other victims in organized mass murders at the ] and other places. <ref name="nikolic">Jasenovački logor smrti, dr Nikola Nikolić, 1948</ref> <ref name="colic">Takozvana NDH, dr Mladen Colic, Deltapres, Beograd 1973</ref> <ref name="dedijer">Vatikan i Jasenovac, Vladimir Dedijer, Dokumenti (Beograd: “Rad”, 1987)</ref>

	The upper part of serb cutter is made of leather, as a sort of a glove, designed to be worn so that the thumb goes through the hole up there, and so that only the blade protrudes from the hand. There was inscription "Gräwiso" on the leather part of the knife, and it was sometimes called "graviso knife" because of this. The blade is curved in order to make it easier to slit the throat of the victim, following the curvature of the neck.

	The srbosjek knife was allegedly designed after Ante Pavelic held a session of his ] government, where one of the items on the agenda was what kind of a knife should be designed to make it possible for the executioners to kill people as fast as possible and with as little fatigue as possible.<ref name="colic"/>

	In Jasenovac concentration camp once a competition in speedy slaughter was organised by the Ustasha camp guards. The winner of this competition, ] allegedly cut the throats of 1360 prisoners and won the competition.<ref name="blum">Wanted ! : The Search for Nazis in America, Howard Blum, Quadrangle/New York
	Times Book Co. 1977</ref>


	== Accuracy of the sources ==
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	The accuracy of the sources mentioning the Srbosjek is disputed. As of now those are serbian sources describing war crimes commited by their war time opponent, the Croats. Even as the Jasenovac camp is a part of the Holocaust, which is internationally rather well documented, there are practically no third party sources describing the knife. There also have not been found any croatian reference to Srbosjek, even though the word itself is allegedly croatian, and the place where the crimes happened and where the knife has allegedly been used lies in present time Croatia.

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