Tanasije Dinić (15 April 1891 – 17 July 1946) was a

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military officer and later Minister of Internal Affairs in the collaborationist Government of National Salvation established in the German-occupied occupied territory of Serbia during

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. Dinić held the rank of

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in the Royal Yugoslav Army and was a British sympathizer before and during

. He became a member of the

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Yugoslav National Movement in order to report German plans for the Balkans to the British Foreign Office, SOE and MI6. Following the

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, he held the post of minister of interior in Milan Nedić's puppet government. Dinić became the minister of social policy and people's health in 1943, and was later captured by Americans near Vienna after war, interrogated, flown back to Belgrade, and handed over to the new communist government. After a trial and sentencing he was executed by

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on 17 July 1946, along with

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leader General

Draža Mihailović Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović ( sr-Cyrl, Драгољуб Дража Михаиловић; 27 April 1893 – 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslavs, Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetniks, Chetnik Detachments ...

and a number of other collaborators.

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* 1891 births 1946 deaths Politicians from Niš Royal Yugoslav Army personnel of World War II Serbian collaborators with Nazi Germany Executed Yugoslav collaborators with Nazi Germany Military personnel from Niš 20th-century Serbian people Executed Serbian people Serbian people convicted of war crimes {{Serbia-politician-stub