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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 .
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 ...
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]
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.
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 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 ...
Stanley William Bailey OBE was a British Army officer in World War II, who reached the rank of colonel and was most notable for being the head and then political advisor of the British Special Operations Executive Liaison Mission to the Chetnik Forces of Draža Mihailović from December 25, 1942—January 29, 1944.
Operation Kopaonik [2] was a large-scale [3] Axis offensive launched against the Mihailović's Chetniks in Axis occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. [4] The operation was inspired by Heinrich Himmler who believed that the annihilation of Draža Mihailović and his forces was a basis for a success in Serbia and South East Europe.