Word: chetniks
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Chetnik guerrillas and Serbian regulars, united under Serbian General Draja Mikhailovitch, were reported standing off as many as seven German divisions in the mountains south and west of Belgrade...
Yugoslavia's civil war raged harder than ever. The Nazis and their stooges caught so much hell from former Yugoslav soldiers, Serb Chetnik guerrillas and other Yugoslav patriots that puppet Premier Milan Neditch of Serbia called on the peasantry to battle for the Axis. Snorted a Serb spokesman in Ankara: "If Neditch thinks that he can persuade the peasants to turn upon their own fathers, sons and brothers fighting in the mountains, he has taken leave of his senses...
...Nazi French Cagoulards was in training to fight with the Germans in Russia, someone murdered his secretary in Paris. The Nazis were said to have shot twelve Rumanian Generals who were unwilling to continue fighting Russia. In Yugoslavia open warfare continued between Nazi mechanized divisions and the Chetnik guerrillas. (Reports told of a Serbian "Joan of Arc" who led an attack on the town of Sabac.) In Greece the Nazis executed 40 student demonstrators. The exiled Greek Government reported the Germans had wrenched off one rebel's arms, had buried alive three Greeks whose executioners succeeded only in wounding...
Today 38,000 Yugoslavs wear the Chetnik uniform (blue serge tunic with skull-&-bones insignia, dagger, black socks embroidered with roses) and there are many more secret members, but among them are not more than ten women. The American woman who joined them was Ruth Mitchell, a native of Milwaukee, sister of the late, famed U.S. airman, General William ("Billy") Mitchell, ex-wife of two Britons, mother of a son with the R.A.F. in Africa...
...wall behind white-bearded Leader Pechanatz hung a picture of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who shot and killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, thus started World War I. In a corner, on the floor, lay the bleached skeleton of a Chetnik hero. Said Leader Pechanatz, with a casual wave of his arm: "His mother comes to see me every few weeks. She often asks whose skeleton that is. I have never told her. I am hard, but not that hard...