Mladen Žujović (1895—1969) was Serbian and Yugoslav attorney and professor of Law at

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. He was known as member of British-supported secret society Konspiracija and during the

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as a member of the Central National Committee of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and since 1943 commander of Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland in Dalmatia, Lika and Western Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography

Žujović was born on 5 June 1895 in Belgrade,

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. He was attorney PhD and professor at

. On 8 August 1938 a secret society Konspiracija, established to perform coup d etat and overthrow regime of Prince Pavle with support of

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had their first meeting presided by Slobodan Jovanović in a house of Žujović.

Dragiša Vasić Dragomir "Dragiša" Vasić ( sr-Cyrl, Драгиша Васић; 2 September 1885 – 20 April 1945) was a Serbian lawyer, writer and publicist who became one of the chief Chetnik ideologues during World War II. He finished law school in Belgrad ...

, Milan Žujović and Milan Nikolić were members of the Executive Council of the ''Conspiracy''. Together with Dragiša Vasić, Žujović created a plan to establish Central National Committee of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (CNK). Žujović went to Belgrade to select candidates for membership of CNK. Eventually he recruited a number of people while he personally was a member of the CNK. Since May 1943 he moved to Split. At the end of June 1943, Italians arrested Žujović in action against Chetniks coordinated with Germans who arrested Pavle Đurišić a little earlier. After he was appointed as a delegate of

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

for

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Lika Lika () is a traditional region of Croatia proper, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. On the north-west end Lika is bounded by Ogulin-Plaški basin, and on the south-east by ...

and Western

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with rank of Lieutenant Colonel. When Italian forces surrendered to communist forces in Dalmatia in the Autumn of 1943 Žujović fled to Italy and then to

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. He was sentenced to in absentia during the trial against Draza Mihailovic and his accomplices. Žujović died in Paris, France, 1969. Thanks to Teodora Žujović the manuscripts of Mladen Žujović that he took with him as a refugee were published.

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