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During World War II, several provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia corresponding to the modern-day state of Serbia were occupied by the Axis Powers from 1941 to 1944. Most of the area was occupied by the Wehrmacht and was organized as separate territory under control of the German Military Administration in Serbia.
This goal had long been the foundation of the movement for a Greater Serbia. During Axis occupation the notion of clearing or "ethnically cleansing" these territories was introduced largely in response to the massacres of Serbs by the Ustashe in the Independent State of Croatia. [17]
Map showing occupation zones in Vojvodina from 1941 to 1944. The Freedom Monument on the Fruška Gora, dedicated to the resistance movement in Vojvodina. The military occupation of the Yugoslav region of Vojvodina (now in Serbia) from 1941 to 1944 was carried out by Nazi Germany and its client states / puppet regimes: Horthy's Hungary and Independent State of Croatia.
Military occupation of Serbia may refer to: Axis occupation of Serbia during WW2 (Serbian territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia under German, Croatian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Italian occupation) Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia during WW2 (Serbian territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia under Nazi military occupation)
Axis occupation of Serbia; Axis occupation of Vojvodina; B. Bulgarian occupation of Serbia (World War II) H. Habsburg-occupied Serbia (1686–1691) Koča's Frontier; O.
Sark during the German occupation of the Channel Islands; Saharat Thai Doem; Japanese occupation of British Borneo; Axis occupation of Serbia; British Military Administration (Somaliland) Soviet occupation zone in Germany; Spanish occupation of Tangier (1940–1945) Spratly Island; Sudetenland; Syria–Lebanon campaign
Serbia had by now printed $1.8 billion worth of new money without any backing of the Yugoslav central bank. [105] In the Slovenian independence referendum, held on 23 December 1990, a vast majority of residents voted for independence. 88.5% of all electors (94.8% of those participating) voted for independence – which was declared on 25 June 1991.
On 6 April 1941, Axis forces invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.Poorly equipped and poorly trained, the Royal Yugoslav Army was quickly defeated. [3] The country was then dismembered, with Serbia being reduced to its pre-1912 borders and placed under a government of German military occupation. [4]