Amazing monuments make for surreal photos on Balkan hilltops
Published 19 Jan 2018, 09:59 GMT, Updated 13 Apr 2019, 09:31 BST
This large winged sculpture in Podgarić, Croatia, holds a crypt with the remains of hundreds of Partisan soldiers who died while being treated at nearby hospitals.
The Serbian uprising against the Ustaše militia on Petrova Gora mountain in Croatia is honored by a monument that's 12 stories tall.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudThree fists represent the Serbian, Jewish, and Roma victims killed at this site near Niš, Serbia, by Nazi occupiers from early 1942 to late 1944.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudThis monument for the victims of the Battle of the Sutjeska in Bosnia and Herzegovina took about seven years to complete.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudPartisans gathered here on Kosmaj Mountain in 1941 to plan their battles against occupying Axis forces.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudUnderneath this monument on Freedom Hill in Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia, is a crypt which contains the remains of 284 fallen fighters from the Yugoslavian Army who liberated this area during World War Two.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudSitting on a high peak in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this monument remembers the fierce battle when thousands of Partisan fighters and predominately Serbian civilians were killed or deported to Ustaše concentration camps during the summer of 1942.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudThree monoliths evoking a gun barrel honor a confrontation in 1941 between Partisans and Germans in Štulac, Serbia.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudAbout three hundred desperate Serbian peasants, armed only with pitchforks, died attacking members of the Ustaše militia in 1942 at the top of this mountain in Novo Selo Palanječko, Croatia.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudEngraved with the names of the 62 fallen Partisan soldiers, this monument complex stands over a crypt in Vogošća, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudMany of the men who died here in Sinj, Croatia, were members of the Worker's Football Club of Split.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudMeant to symbolize a budding flower, this monument commemorates the hospital and medical staff that cared for the wounded Partisan soldiers in Korčanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Photograph by Sylvain HeraudIn Kragujevac, Serbia, hundreds of students and teachers were killed by German troops in October of 1941.
Photograph by Sylvain Heraud