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World War II in Yugoslavia; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Ante Pavelić visits Adolf Hitler at the Berghof; Stjepan Filipović hanged by the occupation forces; Draža Mihailović confers with his troops; a group of Chetniks with German soldiers in a village in Serbia; Josip Broz Tito with members of the British mission
The Yugoslav Partisans, [note 1] [11] or the National Liberation Army, [note 2] officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, [note 3] [12] was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Nazi Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
Mission Rogers was a World War II Special Operations Executive (SOE) medical and military expedition to Yugoslav Partisans in Dalmatia, western Bosnia and Slovenia. 28/11/1943 Monkeywrench Mission Airborne Eastern Serbia Maj Dugmore SOE mission to Yugoslav partisans, sent to prepare the area for the British break with Mihailović. [38] Dec 1943
Yugoslav people of World War II (15 C, 10 P) A. ... Pages in category "Yugoslavia in World War II" The following 152 pages are in this category, out of 152 total.
The main reason was that none of the subordinate national groups, including Slovenes and Croats, were prepared to fight in defence of a Serbian Yugoslavia. Also, so that the Slovenes did not feel abandoned, defences were built on Yugoslavia's northern border when the natural line of defence was much further south, based on the rivers Sava and ...
The Yugoslavs achieved a breakthrough after a series of hard-fought encounters along the Syrmian Front in late 1944 and early 1945. The newly formed Yugoslav 4th Army, whose elements were present at the pivotal Battle of Knin, spent most of spring advancing north along the Dinaric Alps from their staging grounds on the banks of the Neretva with the intent of reaching the Isonzo and taking ...
World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia started with the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. Under the pressure of the Yugoslav Partisan movement , part of the Macedonian communists began in October 1941 a political and military campaign to resist the occupation of Vardar Macedonia .
The Belgrade offensive or the Belgrade strategic offensive operation (Serbo-Croatian: Beogradska operacija / Београдска операција; Russian: Белградская стратегическая наступательная операция, Belgradskaya strategicheskaya nastupatel'naya operatsiya) (15 September 1944 – 24 November 1944) [9] was a military operation during ...