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Reunions of Chetnik survivors and nostalgics and of Mihailović admirers have been held in Serbia [213] By the late 20th and early 21st century, Serbian history textbooks and academic works characterized Mihailović and the Chetniks as "fighters for a just cause", and Chetnik massacres of civilians and commission of war crimes were ignored or ...
Operation Mihailovic was the final World War II German anti-guerrilla offensive to suppress the Serbian Chetnik detachments of the Yugoslav Army, headed by Colonel Dragoljub Mihailović. The offensive took place from 4 to 9 December 1941 near Šumadija, in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia.
In March 1946, Mihailović was brought to Belgrade, where he was tried and executed on charges of treason in July. During the closing years of World War II, many Chetniks defected from their units, as the Partisan commander-in-chief, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, proclaimed a general amnesty to all defecting forces for a time. [225]
Operation Air Bridge:Serbian Chetniks and the Rescued American Airmen in World War II. Serbian Master's Society. ISBN 86-903831-0-7. Jean-Christophe Buisson (1999). Héros trahi par les alliés: Le général Mihailovic 1893-1946. Librairie Académque Perrin. ISBN 9782262035075. Kirk Ford (1992). OSS and Yugoslav Resistance 1943 - 1945. Texas A ...
The Chetniks, a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force, committed numerous war crimes during the Second World War, primarily directed against the non-Serb population of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, mainly Muslims and Croats, and against Communist-led Yugoslav Partisans and their supporters.
The Chetnik sabotage of Axis communication lines was a campaign of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland (commonly known as the Chetniks) in which it sabotaged Axis communication lines, mostly along the rivers Morava, Vardar and Danube, to obstruct the transport of German war material through Serbia to Thessaloniki and further to Libya during the Western Desert campaign.
The Battle of Trešnjica was fought 2 November 1941 between partisan and Chetnik detachments and was the first major battle between Chetniks and partisans. This battle marks the beginning of an open conflict between formations under the command of Josip Broz Tito and Colonel Dragoljub Mihailović and implies the end of the two-month partial cooperation between the Partisan and Ravnagorje ...
The Central National Committee of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, [1] also known by its Yugoslav abbreviation CNK (Serbo-Croatian: Централни национални комитет Краљевине Југославије, Centralni nacionalni komitet Kraljevine Jugoslavije), [2] was an advisory body of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland (commonly known as the Chetniks) established during ...