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The Yugoslav Partisans, [note 1] [11] officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia [note 2] [12] (often shortened as the National Liberation Army [note 3]) was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Nazi Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
Women had played a prominent role in the Partisans with about 100, 000 women having served in the Partisans between 1941 and 1945 as messengers, saboteurs, commissars, nurses, doctors, and soldiers. [41] The female veterans insisted that they would expect equality in new Yugoslavia. [41] In 1945, women were given the right to vote and hold ...
Pages in category "Women in the Yugoslav Partisans" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Mass-shootings of Chetnik and Partisan POWs and local civilians by German forces. [86] Mačva massacres: 24 September – 9 October 1941 Mačva region c. 6,000 Nazi Germany Ustaše Kingdom of Hungary. Serbian civilians killed in reprisals during anti-Partisan operations led by German, Ustaše and Hungarian forces. [87] Ibarski Kolašin massacre
A rally in Drvar in September 1942. The Women's Antifascist Front (Serbo-Croatian: Antifašistička fronta žena, Антифашистички фронт жена, abbreviated AFŽ/AФЖ; Slovene: Protifašistična fronta žensk; Macedonian: Антифашистички фронт на жените), was a Yugoslav feminist and anti-fascist mass organisation.
Kozarčanka (Serbian Cyrillic: Козарчанка, meaning 'woman from Kozara') is a World War II photograph that became iconic in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Shot by Yugoslav artistic photographer Žorž Skrigin in northern Bosnia during the winter of 1943–44, it shows a smiling female Partisan wearing a Titovka cap and ...
Lepa Svetozara Radić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лепа Светозара Радић; 19 December 1925 – 8 February 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan and communist of Serbian origin who was awarded the Order of the People's Hero in 1951 for her role in the resistance movement against the Axis powers in the Second World War—becoming the youngest recipient at the time.
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...