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Četniks
The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. Although it was not a homogeneous movement, it was led by Draža Mihailović. While it was anti-Axis in its long-term goals and engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods, it also engaged in tactical or selective collaboration with Axis forces for almost all of the war. The Chetnik movement adopted a policy of collaboration with regard to the Axis, and engaged in cooperation to one degree or another by both establishing a ''modus vivendi'' and operating as "legalised" auxiliary forces under Axis control. Over a period of time, and in different parts of the country, the movement was progressively drawn into collaboration agreements: first with the puppet Government of National Salvation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslav Government-in-exile
The Government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Exile ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Vlada Kraljevine Jugoslavije u egzilu, Влада Краљевине Југославије у егзилу) was an official government-in-exile of Yugoslavia, headed by King Peter II. It evacuated from Belgrade in April 1941, after the Axis invasion of the country, and went first to Greece, then to Palestine, then to Egypt, and finally, in June 1941, to the United Kingdom. Hence, it is also referred to as the "Government in London" ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Vlada u Londonu, Влада у Лондону, label=none). It was dissolved in March 1945. Background According to economics professor and historian Jozo Tomasevich, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was politically weak from the moment of its creation in December 1918, and remained so during the interwar period mainly due to rigid centralism combined with strong ethno-religious identities. In particular, the religious primacy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvonimir Vučković
Zvonimir Vučković (; 6 July 1916 — 21 December 2004) was a Yugoslav Chetnik military commander holding the rank of Major and '' vojvoda'' during World War II and one of the closest associates of Draža Mihailović. Vučković was born in Bijeljina into the ethnically Croat Prkić family in 1916. After his father died when he was four, Vučkovićs mother married Aleksandar Vučković from Vranje. Zvonimir completed military academy in Belgrade and became military officer of the Royal Yugoslav Army, first in Zagreb, then in Belgrade. When he heard that Yugoslav government signed tripartite pact with Nazi Germany on 25 March 1941, Vučković immediately left the country to join the Greek Army struggling against Fascist Italy as an act of protest. After his own country was invaded by the Axis he returned and in June 1941 joined guerrilla units of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland, commonly known as Chetniks. In September he established the Takovo Chetnik Detachment and became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vojislav Lukačević
Vojislav Lukačević ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав Лукачевић; 1908 – 14 August 1945) was a Serbs, Serbian Chetnik commander in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II. At the outbreak of war, he held the rank of Captain (armed forces), captain of the Military reserve force, reserves in the Royal Yugoslav Army. When the Axis powers invasion of Yugoslavia, invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, Lukačević became a leader of Chetniks in the Sandžak region and joined the movement of Draža Mihailović. While the Chetniks were an anti-Axis movement in their long-range goals and did engage in marginal resistance activities for limited periods, they also pursued almost throughout the war a tactical or selective Collaborationism, collaboration with the occupation authorities against the Yugoslav Partisans. They engaged in cooperation with the Axis powers to one degree or another by establishing ''modus vivendi, modi vivendi'' or operating as auxiliary forces under Axis c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragoslav Račić
Dragoslav Račić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Рачић; 24 March 1905 – November 1945) was a Serbian Chetnik military commander holding the rank of colonel and ''voivode'' during World War II. World War II Uprising in Serbia In June 1941, Račić arrived on mountain Cer near Šabac where he designated the place for the headquarters of Chetniks under his command. During the summer of 1941, he organized several military units under his command, first the “Cer company” commanded by Lieutenant Ratko Teodosijević who came from Ravna Gora together with Račić. Then he established the “Čokešina company”, the “Mačva company” (commanded by Lieutenant Nikola Sokić), and the “Machine gun company” commanded by Lieutenant Voja Tufegdžić. The newly established “Prnjavor company” was composed of Serb refugees who escaped from Croatian Ustaše genocide and was a unit within the “Chetnik Cer Detachment”. The Chetnik detachment was a military unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miroslav Trifunović
Miroslav Trifunović ( sr-Cyrl, Мирослав Трифуновић; 14 August 1894 – 13 May 1945) was a brigadier general in the Yugoslav Royal Army and later served as commander of the Chetniks in occupied Serbia during World War II. During the war, he collaborated with Nazi Germany against the Partisans. World War II In May 1942, Draža Mihailović appointed General Trifunović as the commander of Serbia before leaving for Montenegro. On September 2, 1942, as part of the Allied mission to the Chetnik movement, Trifunović received paratroopers who delivered a radio station and codes for communication between the British government and Mihailović's Chetnik forces. According to Dragiša Vasić, Trifunović allegedly ordered the murder of journalist Dragan Sotirović in 1943. Sotirović worked for the Chetnik newspaper ''Sloboda ili smrt'' (''Freedom or Death'') and was suspected of maintaining communication between Chetnik and Partisan commanders, as well as being a memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Predrag Raković
Predrag Raković ( sh-Cyrl, Предраг Раковић; 10 June 191215 December 1944) was a Yugoslav military officer who joined the Chetnik forces of Draža Mihailović after the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 during World War II. He became commander of the Chetnik 2nd Ravna Gora Corps and collaborated with the German-installed puppet government in the German-occupied territory of Serbia and later directly with the Germans against the rival communist-led Yugoslav Partisans. His forces briefly cooperated with Soviet forces against the Germans in October 1944, but faced with Soviet demands that they lay down their weapons or join the Partisans, they withdrew from occupied Serbia. Early life and career Predrag Raković was born on 10 June 1912 in the village of Prijevor, near Čačak in the Kingdom of Serbia. He was one of five sons of Milosav and Milorada Raković. Serbia became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia from 1929) in 1918. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velimir Piletić
Velimir Piletić ( sr-cyrl, Велимир Пилетић; 2 May 1906 – 23 July 1972) was a Yugoslav military officer, best known as commander of the Chetnik forces in eastern Serbia (the Krajina and Mlava Chetnik Corps) during World War II. World War II In May 1941, Piletić organized guerilla rebels in eastern Serbia, initially without any connection with other former Yugoslav officers who were doing the same thing in other parts of Serbia. After establishing his headquarters in the Gornjak Monastery, Piletić established connection with rebels in Belgrade and Banat. Colonel Pantić, who was in Belgrade at the time, sent Captains Pejčić and Avezić along with five Yugoslav aviation officers, including Colonel Lazar Dabetić. Mihailović asked Piletić to lead Chetniks in Montenegro (Montenegro, Boka and Sandžak) but Piletić refused, requesting command over Chetniks of Bosnia instead. This was refused by Mihailović as this command had already been given to Boško ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Novak
Karl Novak (October 19, 1905 – 1975) was a Yugoslav Slovene military officer best known as commander of the Slovene Chetniks in the Italian-annexed Province of Ljubljana (part of modern-day Slovenia) during World War II. Early life Novak was born in Pula in 1905. After he graduated from high school in Maribor, he attended the military academy. Before World War II, Novak was a major in the Yugoslav Royal Army. World War II After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April, 1941 Novak went to headquarters of Draža Mihailović at Ravna Gora together with Jaka Avšič. Novak was instructed by Mihailović to infiltrate the headquarters of the communist forces in Slovenia, but this attempt failed because the Slovenian communists were warned by the communist headquarters from Užice. In February 1943, Novak, Draža Mihailović's chief representative in the province, having tried for many months to get the Slovene Alliance to place some of their forces under his command, formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II In Yugoslavia
World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was Invasion of Yugoslavia, invaded and swiftly conquered by Axis powers, Axis forces and partitioned among Nazi Germany, Germany, Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Italy, Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary, Kingdom of Bulgaria, Bulgaria and their Client state, client regimes. Shortly after Operation Barbarossa, Germany attacked the USSR on 22 June 1941, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, communist-led republican Yugoslav Partisans, on orders from Moscow, launched a guerrilla liberation war fighting against the Axis forces and their locally established Puppet state, puppet regimes, including the Axis-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the Government of National Salvation in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, German-occupied territory of Serbia. This was dubbed the National Liberation War and Socialist Revolution in post-war Yugoslav communist historiography. Simulta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" () has been its colloquial name as early as 1922 due to its origins. "Kraljevina Jugoslavija! Novi naziv naše države. No, mi smo itak med seboj vedno dejali Jugoslavija, četudi je bilo na vseh uradnih listih Kraljevina Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev. In tudi drugi narodi, kakor Nemci in Francozi, so pisali že prej v svojih listih mnogo o Jugoslaviji. 3. oktobra, ko je kralj Aleksander podpisal "Zakon o nazivu in razdelitvi kraljevine na upravna območja", pa je bil naslov kraljevine Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev za vedno izbrisan." (Naš rod ("Our Generation", a monthly Slovene language periodical), Ljubljana 1929/30, št. 1, str. 22, letnik I.) The official name of the state was changed to "Kingdom of Yugoslavia" by King Alexander I of Yugosla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravna Gora (highland)
Ravna Gora ( sr-Cyrl, Равна Гора) is a highland in central Serbia, at the mountain of Suvobor. It is renowned as the birthplace of the modern Chetnik movement under the leadership of Draža Mihailović in 1941. Ravna Gora was the site of a celebration marking the 50th anniversary of Victory Day in 1995. Among others, the celebration was attended by Richard Felman, one of more than 400 US airmen rescued by the Chetniks during World War II. During the war, over 2,300 total airmen were rescued from German-occupied Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ....Robert J. Donia, ''The Forgotten Thousands: The Historiography of World War II Rescues of Allied Airmen in Yugoslavia''. Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine, 2020, p. 300-303 References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suvobor
Suvobor (Serbian Cyrillic: Сувобор) is a mountain in central Serbia, near the town of Gornji Milanovac. Its highest peak ''Suvobor'' has an elevation of above sea level. The northwestern part of Suvobor is called Rajac (847 m ) and is generally developed the best for tourism. History Suvobor and Rajac were the site of Battle of Kolubara of the World War I in December 1914. In World War II, Suvobor was a stronghold of Chetnik movement, and their leader Draža Mihailović had the main headquarters at Ravna Gora. After World War II forest rangers planted conifer trees on the naturally bare summit of the mountain. Fauna and Flora The valleys around Suvobor are covered with young oak forests, its slopes on the other hand are covered with conifer trees. On the slopes of the mountain different animal species can be found like roe deer, hare and pheasant Pheasants ( ) are birds of several genera within the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes. Although the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
